Group items tagged

No Significant Difference Phenomenon This website has been designed to serve as a companion piece to Thomas L. Russell's book, "The No Significant Difference Phenomenon" (2001, IDECC, fifth edition). Mr. Russell's book is a fully indexed, comprehensive research bibliography of 355 research reports, summaries and papers that document no significant differences (NSD) in student outcomes between alternate modes of education delivery, with a foreword by Dr. Richard E. Clark. Previous editions of the book were provided electronically; the fifth edition is the first to be made available in print from IDECC (The International Distance Education Certification Center). The primary purpose of the NSD website is to expand on the offerings from the book by providing access to appropriate studies published or discovered after the release of the book. In addition to studies that document no significant difference (NSD), the website includes studies which do document significant differences (SD) in student outcomes based on the mode of education delivery. Both types of entries may be searched: * By year, through the left navigation menu; * Through a simple keyword search, available at the top right of each page; or * Through an advanced search. This site is intended to function as an ever-growing repository of comparative media studies in education research. Both no significant differences (NSD) and significant differences (SD) studies are constantly being solicited for inclusion in the website. Please feel free to submit an entry.

good reference for project studies at CATE

Emerging Technologies for Online Learning Symposium, a joint Symposium of Sloan Consortium and MERLOT with MoodleMoot, is designed to bring together individuals interested in the technological aspects of online learning. The symposium, focusing on the technologies that drive online learning effectiveness, will continue to highlight research, applications, and best practices of important emerging technological tools. Experts, intermediate users and novices are welcome to participate in Symposium activities that will include face-to-face and virtual components. Symposium tracks highlight and demonstrate research, application and best practices of important emerging technological tools related to social networking, assessment, open educational resources, new media and support services. The Symposium is brought to you by the partnership of the Sloan Consortium, MERLOT, and MoodleMoot.

Nibipedia is an online educational video database of high-quality content that grows in value through community collaboration. Built using a wiki-like construct, members of the Nibipedia community annotate and share Nibipedia videos, via "deep links" to specific moments in video time, with commentary- or with links to other references, texts, and rich media.

Socialmention: "like google alerts, but for social media" - Receive daily email alerts of what you want

the TinCan Youth Media home - from the Spokane area

The Digital Narrative: finding your story with new media

Seven Things That Could Make Your Gadgets Obsolete: (1) HDMI 1.4 - new standard for moving media from source to display will include 3DTV & ethernet for transfer of data up to 100 Mb/sec (2) USB 3.0 - new USB format at up to 400 Mb / sec is ten times faster than USB 2.0 (3) 3DTV - you'll need glasses - to appear latter half of 2010 (4) DLNA - Digital Living Network - around since 2004 is now getting integrated into lots of digital appliances. Get ready for the promised "connected house" (5) Mobile ATSC - to allow us to get t.v. broadcast signal to mobile devices (6) Ambient Light Sensors and other eco-friendly tv features (7) Internet-enable TV sets

Edge discussion of the "informavore" - must watch! Four futurist technologists discussing how the web and related media are quickly, breathtakingly changing our culture

Lifelong Kindergarten: Developing new technologies that expand the range of what people can design, create, and learn

Great article on the generation gap of kids putting their whole lives online and older folk (like us) balking at the cultural shift. A fabulous article - great for using with college level courses in tech, media, paradigm shifts, web2.0

Nota: "casual collaboration" - mash ideas & media together in this dynamic whiteboard wiki.

Joanna Goode's research on the digital divide - published in New Media and Society - that "high school opportunities around technology really shape students' abilities to engage fully in university academic life"

Rethinking Net Safety Together: dispelling myths about how kids use social media and how we might keep them safe (filmed in Second Life)

Open Thinking Wiki: begun by Alec Couros, ICT Coordinator of the Faculty of Education, University of Regina - as a resource for courses he teaches in education and media studies. Great example of well framed edtech site.

CATE should have something at LEAST this nice

New Media Consortium's press release announcing their award of a free sim in Second Life for the Virtual Oaxaca Project - by the Wired Humanities Project and the Center for Learning in Virtual Environments at the University of Oregon

High School in NYC that uncovers the patterns of games to teach kids critical thinking and new media skills

Educause New Media Consortium trends

HASTAC / MacArthur: grant competition - Digital Media and Learning

Antonio Lopez on DIY learning in digital ecologies