As MOOCs cast their eye to the developing world, very minor tweaks matter a great deal, such as the ability to allow students to download, rather than only stream course videos. But even more major ones are coming, including edX’s plans to start open-sourcing its platform in the next few months, which could allow even more universities to post online courses, and software programmers around the world to experiment with customized interfaces.
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How MOOCs Could Meet the Challenge of Providing a Global Education | MIT Technology Review - 0 views
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“We need to make sure we are making tools that make it easy to create new content, so it’s not only someone at MIT or Stanford who creates.” Relevance, as he notes, is one of the biggest motivators for students.
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One of the major challenges for MOOCs—which so far mostly come from U.S. universities—is to tailor the content of courses to a diverse worldwide audience with any number of combinations of language, educational, motivational, and cultural backgrounds. Critics fear the rise of big box education from only a few elite institutions in Western nations, and worry these may not fit the different learning styles in different nations.
25 Tips to Social Media Success | Joerg Weishaupt - 0 views
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Social media is win-win.
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Everything you say can be used against you, especially if you offend someone. Be on your best behavior and interact from a professional position, not a personal one.
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Interact and maintain dialogue. If someone messages you, reply – take part in open discussions. Take the time to show appreciate for all manner of feedback, whether it is positive or negative.
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The Facebook Marketing Toolbox: 100 Tools and Tips to Tap the Facebook Customer Base - ... - 0 views
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A list of 100 tools and tips that would maximise all of the applications and opportunities that Facebook has to offer.
Microsoft launches So.cl social network - 0 views
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Microsoft’s research-oriented FUSE Labs launched a new, student-oriented social network last weekend
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So.cl has been designed for students studying social media to extend their educational experience and rethink how they learn and communicate. They can build posts with many elements—photos, video, text, and more—and share them with colleagues. They also can find students with similar interests and build communities around specific educational goals. So.cl might even give students the ability to create their own social tool, customized for their own community.”
how to custom style your google form - 6 views
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a tutorial to have your google form in your website and customised. need some knowledge in html and css and maybe a nice afternoon!
Mindset change critical to ensure social success | ZDNet - 0 views
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As more organizations look to social media to complement their communication efforts, it is important that they adopt a customized, integrated model and instill a change in employer mindset in order to achieve their business objectives.
7 Tips for Igniting Your Content With Social Media - 1 views
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"Content is fire. Social media is gasoline."
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1. Know Your Audience If you don't know who your audience is, how will you ever connect with them? Most brands have an understanding of their audience's demographics - age, gender, HHI, ethnicity. But you have to go beyond these statistics to get a better understanding of their interests, needs, mindsets, and behaviors to truly make a connection and become an important part of their lives. In addition to the standard methods of audience discovery - industry research, focus groups, and brand surveys - you can also use social media data to build audience personas. Social monitoring software, Facebook Custom Audience, social referrals to your website, and question-and-answer sites are just a few of the sources you can use to learn more about your audience.
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2. Provide Value Your content must provide some type of value to your audience. That value could be education, increased productivity, entertainment, or cost savings. To the consumer, it shouldn't seem like marketing, even though we know it is by nature. It's providing long-term awareness and brand recall. It's making sure your brand is right there with the consumer at each step along their path to purchase so that when it comes time to make a decision, you're the first brand that comes to mind.
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""Content is fire. Social media is gasoline.""
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Light my fire - The Doors :-)
21 Rules for Social Media Engagement - 0 views
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Rules of Engagement As social media continues to evolve, defining the “rules of engagement” will encourage thoughtful interaction that benefits the business, brand, customer, peers, and prospects at every touchpoint. In the end, we earn the attention, relationships and business we deserve.
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Don’t just participate solely in your own domains
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Participate where your presence is advantageous and mandatory.
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Rules of engagement - Social Media.
YellowBird Brings 360-Degree Video to YouTube - 1 views
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YellowBird, a Netherlands-based video technology startup, just had its interactive, 360-degree video player approved by YouTube for integration into YouTube's channels. With the new player, you can now not only watch immersive, 360-degree YouTube videos, you can also navigate the video by dragging your mouse. As TechCrunch rightly described it last year - it's like Google Street View for video.
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YellowBird says its original player was customized specifically for this project into an embeddable widget which also contains social networking links, a 2D (unwrapped) version of the video and a link to buy the album from inside the player.
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About yellowBird The company builds 360-degree experiences
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Get Started Developing for Android with Eclipse - Smashing Magazine - 0 views
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Why Develop for Android?Android is an open-source platform based on the Linux kernel, and is installed on thousands of devices from a wide range of manufacturers. Android exposes your application to all sorts of hardware that you’ll find in modern mobile devices — digital compasses, video cameras, GPS, orientation sensors, and more.
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Android is an open-source platform based on the Linux kernel, and is installed on thousands of devices from a wide range of manufacturers.
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Android’s free development tools make it possible for you to start writing software at little or no cost.
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Mobile Development for Android Apps
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This article also includes a step by step walkthrough development for android app using Android SDK. With so little offering courses on Android development currently, it could prove to be a good read. ;)
Adobe Demos Flash-to-HTML5 Conversion Tool [VIDEO] - 1 views
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At Adobe’s MAX conference the other night, that message was made manifest with a live demonstration of a Flash to HTML5 conversion tool, which is currently in the works. The tool is incredibly impressive in that it can convert full Flash animation into HTML5 on the fly
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Watch the demonstration video to get an idea of how users will be able to take elements from within the newly converted HTML5 code to re-insert elsewhere on a web page
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Those animations or interactions will now be viewable on all kinds of devices — including the iPhone () and iPad. This is where we think that this HTML5 conversion tool has real possibilities. It’s one thing to be able to convert a movie or animation
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The evolution of flash. Flash's reponses to HTML 5
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see the demo video here >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryZP00_KhYE&feature=player_embedded
Who Owns Mobile Learning in Your Organization? by John Feser : Learning Solutions Magazine - 0 views
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The reality is that developing mobile solutions, whether for learning or another purpose, requires a significant investment in technology and skills, either or both of which the current HR or learning department may not possess.
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Given the ties mobile will have to the organization’s Web infrastructure, IT will want to have input to issues such as security, the devices involved, sharing of data, bandwidth, and customer support (who gets called when there is a problem), as well as a myriad of other issues.
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First, be aware of the many groups that have a stake or interest in mobile development in general, not just mobile learning
Apple Begins Offering Free "Find My Phone" Feature - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The software, which is called “Find my iPhone,”will be offered at no charge for customers who have upgraded to the latest iOS 4.2 mobile software. In the past this feature was bundled into the Mobile Me suite, which costs $100 a year.
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There are also a number of free products that enable tracking a lost mobile phone on the Google Android platform.
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Locate your missing iPhone or iPad
Getting Started With Mobile Learning - 1 views
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Mobile learning 2.0 is more about creating learning experiences-engaging and challenging activities that result in significant changes to knowledge and behavior. If you find that there is a particular advantage to being mobile, then look at the end goal of what you're trying to achieve and reverse-engineer it. One of the decisions you will need to make is whether or not to develop your mobile learning application within your company or to use a custom developer.
Designing for iPhone 4's Retina Display (Global Moxie) - 0 views
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App Store Icon 512x512 (scaled down to 175x175 for display in the store)
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Application Icon 114x114 (iPhone 4) 57x57 (older iPhones) 72x72 (iPad)
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Spotlight Search Results and Settings Icon 58x58 (iPhone 4) 50x50 (Spotlight results for iPad) 29x29 (settings for iPad and older iPhones)
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The specifications for designing for iPhone 4's display.
Vipidme.com - create your own custom intros for videos in minutes - 1 views
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Now there is no need to study complicated 3D programs and to spend much time for video design creation. vipID will help you to make out your own opening intro or to model your own video clip on a professional level.
Useful Social Media Blog » Blog Archive » Social Media Gurus, Frito Lay's rec... - 1 views
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Frito-Lay decided to launch a multi stage campaign which would entice people to become fans on their new Facebook page. They did this so effectively that they set a Guiness World Record for the most fans on Facebook in 24hours!
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fter a live cooking demonstration in New York Times Square created media buzz, customers were given free bags of chips if they registered on a special product giveaway site and liked the page.
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An article on how social media are setting world records.... Enjoy.
Foursquare Now 10 Million Strong: Has Your Business Checked-in? Brian Solis - 0 views
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The Games Businesses Play with Customers Boomers and Generation X will remember the days when the Yellow Pages was the encyclopedia of local business. Now services such as Foursquare bring the Yellow Pages alive. Add to the fact that the people we know and trust share their experiences and endorsements or critiques with every checkin, we’re given access to something quite remarkable. Additionally, businesses are given a special opportunity to learn more about the people who are checking-in and also about those who are not. Foursquare offers a powerful set of business tools that can help local businesses, chains, destinations, you name it, more effectively connect with the people who can not only keep them in business, but grow it as well.
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What we can learn is the creation of more meaningful experiences, from this Foursquare study, is that reaches out to people and engages them.
Defaults are bad « Lisa's (Online) Teaching Blog - 1 views
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My class is organized like a syllabus. I need a button for Unit 1, a button for Unit 2. Every time we do a workshop where one of our faculty demonstrates how we’ve adjusted an LMS to make it look like a syllabus, we see light bulbs go on all over the room. We have, over the years, called these workshops things like “Making Blackboard Work for You”, “Redesigning Blackboard”, and “The Interactive Syllabus”. Yesterday our presenters Andrea Petri and Laura Paciorek gave a workshop called “A New Wardrobe for Blackboard: Technical Basics of Instructional Design”. Andrea showed us his class, organized into units, with each unit a page full of links, all in one place for that unit. We’ve got tutorials, like this one on creating an interactive syllabus in Blackboard by Pilar Hernández . We have a handout showing a logical chapter-based LMS menu. Laura Paciorek made a screencast on how to change the Blackboard menu .
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Something for the ETs and Jason to read and react to.
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Interesting article! I think one reason why many teachers keep on sticking to the defaults is because _precisely_ BB can be so flexible and do so many things, and there's a lot of templates available. This panoply of choices leads to decision fatigue on the teachers' part: "Which features should I use for presenting to my students? how can I package and so on... arrrrh I'll just stick with the defaults and customize another day." (Can read more about decision fatigue at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-from-decision-fatigue.html) So, I think our training strategies would have to recognize and take into account this human tendency to choose the easy defaults, especially when mentally tired.
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Defaults are bad? hmmm... My son started using the kiddy skate scooter about 4 mths ago and he does it like a pro now. When I bought the scooter, it came with 'default settings', i.e. all fixed up and ready to use. He had a go at it and we adjusted the height and widen the handles along the way. He grew more confident and I removed the trainer wheels. I cannot imagine when the scooter came without any 'default settings', i.e. 4 wheels, 2 bars, rubber tubes, etc, I will be quite frustrated setting it up from scratch and my son will be climbing all over me. Defaults cannot be seen as something bad in my opinion. It gives new users or busy people something to start with, I personally appreciate that. When we design instructions, we provide foundations to get our learners started, building blocks or scaffolding their learning as they progress. A range of basic, intermediate or advanced instructional plans can also be presented later on. Essentially, what are the characteristics of our learners or the users of BB? What do you think they need? Demographics of our acad staffs for example are quite 'senior adult learners' (correct me if I am wrong). Do we think we want to present a blank BB page and tell them, 'hey, guess what? its all about customisation now, whatever you want, put it in.' No prize for guessing what their reactions will be. On the other hand, there maybe a group of people who do not want to conform to defaults but to change things or customise their experiences. Nothing wrong with that too. My point is, let's provide a range of options for users, we inform that there are default settings to get them started but there are also room for customisation for the adventurous. We want to be learner centric, hence customisation of experiences but we also do not want to leave anyone behind. That said, I am going to change all my default passwords and user ids of my mobile.... no wonder banks have been calling me to ask if I needed loans.
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