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Rachel Tan

iTunes U still competitive in online education (Stanford Daily) - 1 views

www.stanforddaily.com/...ompetitive-in-online-education

Piazza discussion forum iTunes U

shared by Rachel Tan on 19 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • discuss issues together through Piazza, but ran into privacy issues and had to create three separate forums
    • Rachel Tan
      Rachel Tan on 02 Sep 13
       
      Dr Ashley, I wonder what the privacy issues were. There is a fair amount of negative notes in this article that could work against our recommendation of iTunes U 
  • Rachel Tan on 19 Jul 13
     
    In 2007, videotaped lectures from 10 courses were added to the Stanford iTunes site. The content on the site consisted solely of audio and video files until January 2012, when Apple launched the iTunes U app. This app allowed professors to upload additional materials such as homework assignments and class handouts, giving remote students more of a comprehensive course experience. While remote students can now participate in a course by completing homework assignments and even taking exams, they are still not able to ask questions in class, receive feedback on homework and exams or collaborate with classmates. Several iTunes U courses have attempted to bridge this gap through Piazza, an online forum that allows students from around the world to ask and answer questions and discuss the course. Remote students are able to register on Piazza to discuss the lectures and assignments with other students, although Hegarty says that iTunes U students often reach out to him for help instead. https://piazza.com/ The (Free) Efficient Way to Manage Class Q&A How is this better than email, newsgroups, and discussion forums? students actually use Piazza, they love it. This difference stems from how we built Piazza. We've personally met with and spoken to thousands of students and instructors. The result is a beautifully intuitive and simple product that students love and use.
  • Rachel Tan on 02 Sep 13
     
    Hi Ashley, would this article reference suffice as 'research reference' per our meeting with Director? Thanks for your input on the Emailer. I'm working on it now.
Ashley Tan

Learning Through Digital Media » Facebook as a Functional Tool & Critical Resource - 0 views

learningthroughdigitalmedia.net/ctional-tool-critical-resource

education facebook learning

shared by Ashley Tan on 18 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Teaching with Facebook is a way for me to engage my students, since many of them will be on the site before, after, and during any lecture. More than engagement, using Facebook allows me to build a bridge between my classroom curricula and what my students are doing outside the lecture hall. I must admit that student expertise with digital media often exceeds my own, and my attempts at using Facebook function as a common language that sets up my classroom as an experimental space allowing students to take risks, make connections, and participate with an alternative teaching style. As much as there are a number of other Facebook educators—there is even a Facebook groups for educators—I am certain that on my university campus I am the only instructor using this social network. My university administration has accused me of subverting our institutional course management system. They are correct. Facebook may be a commercial enterprise, but I argue that students can maintain a Facebook identity after they leave university. The work done in our lecture as represented in our Facebook group is something that lasts beyond a typical university course management system. In other words, access to the information, discussion, links, and learning is not cut off once the course is over.
  • Ashley Tan on 18 Mar 12
     
    Teaching with Facebook is a way for me to engage my students, since many of them will be on the site before, after, and during any lecture. More than engagement, using Facebook allows me to build a bridge between my classroom curricula and what my students are doing outside the lecture hall. I must admit that student expertise with digital media often exceeds my own, and my attempts at using Facebook function as a common language that sets up my classroom as an experimental space allowing students to take risks, make connections, and participate with an alternative teaching style. As much as there are a number of other Facebook educators-there is even a Facebook groups for educators-I am certain that on my university campus I am the only instructor using this social network. My university administration has accused me of subverting our institutional course management system. They are correct. Facebook may be a commercial enterprise, but I argue that students can maintain a Facebook identity after they leave university. The work done in our lecture as represented in our Facebook group is something that lasts beyond a typical university course management system. In other words, access to the information, discussion, links, and learning is not cut off once the course is over.
Ashley Tan

Republic Polytechnic to offer 3 new diplomas - Channel NewsAsia - 0 views

www.channelnewsasia.com/....html

republic polytechnic mobile software development

shared by Ashley Tan on 04 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Ashley Tan on 04 Nov 11
     
    From MOE news digest: Republic Poly offers 3 -year diploma in mobile software development (Ng Jng Yng, Today, 4/11, p26)Diploma in Mobile Software Development is among the new courses to be rolled out by RP next year (Ong Jue Qi, ZB, 4/11, p14) Republic Polytechnic to offer 3 new diplomas (CNA Online, 4/11) Reports noted that Republic Polytechnic (RP) was looking to tap into the fast-growing mobile application market by offering a new diploma from next year. The three-year Diploma in Mobile Software would enable students to learn about the design and development of mobile applications used in smartphones. Reports highlighted that the students would be taught marketing strategies to sell the applications they had developed. The course would take in 40 students. Reports added that RP hoped to increase its academic intake in the next academic year. RP would be launching two other new diplomas, the Diploma in Consumer Behaviour and Research and the Diploma in Sports Coaching. RP would also be giving out 200 scholarships for the first time in the next academic year and each scholarship was worth $2,500 per academic year. ZB carried comments from P/RP that with more new courses and the new scholarships, RP was confident that it would attract outstanding Singaporean students to study at the polytechnic. CNA Online noted that RP said the new diplomas targeted students with an interest in the growing sports, marketing and mobile industries.
Kartini Ishak

20 Ways High Schools Are Using Twitter In The Classroom - 0 views

www.teachthought.com/...using-twitter-in-the-classroom

twitter classroom education

shared by Kartini Ishak on 01 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • BACKCHANNEL DISCUSSION TOOL High school students can sometimes be quite introverted and shy in the classroom, but outspoken online. Additionally, some high school classes move through discussions quickly, and not all students find the opportunity to speak up in class. Both of these issues are addressed as high school classes encourage a Twitter backchannel discussion, in which quiet, shy, and unable-to-get-a-word-in-edgewise students are able to speak up in class without actually speaking up in class, sharing their comments, insights, and even relevant links through Twitter as the discussion goes on. Educators have found that Twitter backchannel discussions provide for more interaction not just in the classroom, but beyond, as students often enjoy further carrying on the conversation even after class time is over.
  • BACKCHANNEL DISCUSSION TOOL High school students can sometimes be quite introverted and shy in the classroom, but outspoken online. Additionally, some high school classes move through discussions quickly, and not all students find the opportunity to speak up in class. Both of these issues are addressed as high school classes encourage a Twitter backchannel discussion, in which quiet, shy, and unable-to-get-a-word-in-edgewise students are able to speak up in class without actually speaking up in class, sharing their comments, insights, and even relevant links through Twitter as the discussion goes on. Educators have found that Twitter backchannel discussions provide for more interaction not just in the classroom, but beyond, as students often enjoy further carrying on the conversation even after class time is over.
  • PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Twitter makes the education world smaller, connecting principals, teachers, and other education professionals across the U.S. and even around the globe. Principal Sheninger at New Milford High School in New Jersey started using Twitter to keep in touch with parents, but found its real value in reaching out to other educators and collaborating with them. He is able to use the tool to find new ideas, new resources, and ideas for professional development
Eveleen Er

Evaluation Rubric for Educational Apps - 1 views

learninginhand.com/...AppRubric.pdf

apps

shared by Eveleen Er on 12 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Eveleen Er on 12 Jan 11
     
    Harry Walker is the principal of Sandy Plains Elementary School in Baltimore County, Maryland. Fourth and fifth graders at the school are piloting one-to-one computing with iPod touches. In addition, Harry is a doctoral student at John Hopkins University. He's investigating the impact of iPod touch on student achievement. One of his challenges is wading through the huge number apps available. He's crafted a rubric to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of an app in terms of how it may impact student achievement. His criteria include curriculum connection, authenticity, feedback, differentiation, user friendliness, and student motivation.
  • Eveleen Er on 12 Jan 11
     
    This can be used as a guideline for the ETs when evaluating apps.
Ashley Tan

Apple Study Trip: Day 2 ~ ICT For Educators - 5 views

ictforeducators.com/...apple-study-trip-day-2.html

ipad education mobile learning CeL

shared by Ashley Tan on 04 Jun 11 - No Cached
  •  When students were given their own iPad, they were given full autonomy of their device and had to set it up from scratch. They set up all of their own accounts and installed their own apps, from a combination of required apps to those which they chose themselves. Each student was given a $40 iTunes gift card to use for their purchases. Experience showed that true success relied on moving away from the school being the "boss" of the machine to one where it was student driven and student managed. 
  • It was found that the Ipads are very different from laptops in that students can really relate to them and, when used, they do not become the focus of the learning. Instead they become one device which can be used with all learning tools that students have access to. The iPad became the "red pen" where much of the work got done in other ways and the iPad was used when needed. Laptop computers control thinking and control the desk. When used, they become the focus of the learning. iPads are a technology which has really changed the way students work with computers in the classroom. The real challenge for staff is to embrace this and to understand that you can't expect to have iPads in the classroom and teach the same way that you did when you didn't have them. It changes the way students work and they way teachers teach. 
  • yeuann on 07 Jul 11
     
    Like your comment about how the iPads don't become the focus of the learning. That's a thought that's been on my mind recently - the importance of the perception of "seamlessness" in tech usage. That's probably one of the most important reasons a technology gets adapted - no matter how cumbersome it seems at first (e.g. learning how to drive a car) - because the normal usage of the technology doesn't hinder the intended task at hand. (That's why once you learn to ride a bike, you don't think so much about the bicycle itself as you think about moving faster.) Think Donald Norman in "The Design of Everyday Things" has a term for this: affordability. So I guess, my thought on the usage of the iPad (and any new tech at hand): The learning of the new tech need not be intuitive. But the everyday usage has to seamlessly flow with the given task at hand - so that the tool and the user become "one" with the task. (Just like how a user fumbles with a pair of chopsticks at first, but once he masters it, his chopsticks "become" part of his fingers.) Then such seamless technologies get seamlessly adopted as "cognitive-multipliers".
rahim azhar

Can Twitter Make You Smarter? - 1 views

gizmodo.com/...can-twitter-make-you-smarter

twitter

shared by rahim azhar on 16 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • In a group of 125 students at an anonymous medium-sized public college in the Midwest, 70 students used Twitter to access information and complete class assignments; the remaining 55 students used a more typical Internet-based course-management system and billboard.
  • rahim azhar on 16 Nov 10
     
    A research was conducted between students who are using twitter and students who are using internet-based- course-management for educational purposes .
Ashley Tan

Twitter finds a place in the classroom - CNN.com - 0 views

edition.cnn.com/...index.html

twitter CeL video

shared by Ashley Tan on 15 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Teachers across the country have been incorporating Twitter into classrooms for a few years, but the site's adoption by educational institutions appears to be limited. A survey of 1,920 U.S. teachers published in April found that 2% of them use the micro-blogging site in college lectures. About half those polled said the use of Twitter and Facebook in class is harmful to the learning experience, according to the study from consulting firm Pearson Learning Solutions. Still, Legaspi is hopeful. When he explained the plan to his students at Hollenbeck Middle School in East Los Angeles, he learned that only one of them had used Twitter. But most, he said, live on their phones. So getting them started wasn't difficult.
  • Legaspi said shy students are benefiting the most. For "a lot of them, what it did is help find their voice," he said. "I have many students that do not participate in my classes or share what's on their mind, so Twitter became that vehicle." Several students praised the new approach. "It's a great way to get people to notice you," said Oscar Lozoria, a shy 14-year-old with long hair that other students used to tease him about. He said Twitter has changed how his peers view him. "They see me as somebody now -- as an equal," he said. Ivan Sabaria, also 14, said Twitter makes learning more fun. "I'm paying attention and doing all my work," he said.
  • Occasionally, the students will type in something inappropriate during class. Still, Legaspi is convinced he has discovered the future of education. "I get feedback on the spot. Not only that, all the students can see what they're sharing," he said. "This is powerful."
bernard tan

3G powers Singapore school's 21st century classroom - 1 views

www.networksasia.net/...schools-21st-century-classroom

mobile mobile_learning

shared by bernard tan on 03 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • bernard tan on 03 Apr 12
     
    NIE is mentioned in this article talking about mobile technology in schools. And the platform chosen was Windows.... The National Institute of Education of Singapore is assisting teachers with the development of customized curriculum in English, Science and Chinese that leverages the benefits of mobile, Internet-connected, learning devices and provides students with new learning opportunities that are not possible with paper and pencil. We co-design technology enabled lessons with the teachers and provide professional development to teachers that enable them to enact lessons using smartphones. It is critical to empower teachers to orchestrate the transformed classroom to support students' personalized learning," says Professor Looi Chee Kit of the National Institute of Education. All smartphones are equipped with MyDesk, a next-generation mobile learning platform tailored to leverage the capabilities of Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. MyDesk enables each student to access his or her assignments, relevant websites that contain podcasts, textual material and video clips and educational applications, such as concept mapping, drawing and animating, to practice both self-directed and collaborative learning.
yeuann

Startups are about to blow up the textbook - Fortune Tech - 0 views

tech.fortune.cnn.com/...-about-to-blow-up-the-textbook

open-source E-Learning learning education

shared by yeuann on 19 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • "CK-12 basically looked at STEM [science, technology, engineering, and math] and broke it down into the 5,000 fundamental concepts, and they mapped them all together," Chakrapani says. "It's not about creating a textbook and every three years putting out a new edition so you can capture more revenue. It's about thinking how a student learns."
  • "And then you go back at the end of year with teachers, see what students struggle on, and revise and improve the book. Each year, the text gets better."
  • Free educational resources -- like a university course on Coursera, for example -- may be available for students to use at no cost, but students cannot reuse, remix, or repurpose that course content however they'd like. By contrast open-source materials like CK-12's materials are not only free, but can also be freely repurposed in any way a student or teacher sees fit.
yeuann

Why I Let My UCLA Students Cheat On Their Exam - 0 views

www.citywatchla.com/...a-students-cheat-on-their-exam

learning cheating

shared by yeuann on 13 May 13 - No Cached
  • So last quarter I had an intriguing thought while preparing my Game Theory lectures. Tests are really just measures of how the Education Game is proceeding. Professors test to measure their success at teaching, and students take tests in order to get a good grade. Might these goals be maximized simultaneously? What if I let the students write their own rules for the test-taking game? Allow them to do everything we would normally call cheating? 
  • Is the take-home message, then, that cheating is good? Well … no. Although by conventional test-taking rules, the students were cheating, they actually weren’t in this case. Instead, they were changing their goal in the Education Game from “Get a higher grade than my classmates” to “Get to the best answer.” This also required them to make new rules for test-taking.
  • yeuann on 13 May 13
     
    This is a fantastic article... 
Ashley Tan

Centre for e-Learning - 0 views

www.cel.nie.edu.sg/...student-teachers.html

shared by Ashley Tan on 06 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • The NIeFolio for the student teacher to explore, extend, showcase, and reflect on his/her journey while they are in NIE.
    • Ashley Tan
      Ashley Tan on 06 Aug 13
       
      Change to: "NIeFolio allows student teachers to showcase and reflect on their journeys while they are in NIE."
  • ICT Workshops for Student Teachers We arrange ICT workshops for Student teachers every semester. Please visit the NIe-Learning calendar to register for workshops.
    • Ashley Tan
      Ashley Tan on 06 Aug 13
       
      This part looks misaligned. Compare with NIE Staff page.
Ashley Tan

ingentaconnect Video recording lectures: Student and professor perspectives - 6 views

www.ingentaconnect.com/...art00024

cel video recording lectures

shared by Ashley Tan on 23 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • This paper investigated the use of special eyeglasses designed with a built-in video camera and microphone for the purpose of recording classroom activities from the point of view of both the professor and the student. The aim is to eliminate the need for dedicated video recording in the classroom. This paper reviewed the various techniques used to record a lecture and highlighted the advantages and disadvantages of each. It also presented 10 activities from the point of view of the student and the professor, which may play a role in improving students' understanding of the lecture. The videos produced by the professor and student cameras were reviewed in terms of their effectiveness and usefulness with regard to the 10 activities. The results were analysed and conclusions were drawn based upon the findings of this study.
  • Ashley Tan on 23 Feb 11
     
    For the video team to read.
  • Henry Ngoh on 16 Mar 11
     
    Looking at the abstract, it's indeed powerful if this kind of special eyeglasses is available in the mass market. Then again, due to my limited capability, access to the review for this research is not possible, as such, thus wouldn't know the actual effectiveness & usefulness of this study. Hopefully, details of similar studies done elsewhere may be available over internet in future.
Ashley Tan

SpringerLink - Education and Information Technologies, Online First™ - 0 views

www.springerlink.com/...7465324r2p471124

CeL video lecture capture

shared by Ashley Tan on 09 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • A Video Lecture Capture (VLC) system was implemented to address issues relating to retention, and to reverse the trend of high drop, failure, and withdrawal (DFW) rates. The purpose of this study was to examine student perceptions of how using VLC impacted their academic performance. Areas of interest surrounded students’ perceived benefits, value, and helpfulness of using the system. In addition, the study probed the concern of many about the impact using VLC would have upon class attendance. Finally the study compared students’ perceptions about their performance as a result of using VLC with faculty perceptions about their students’ performance as a result of using VLC. It was hypothesized that there is a significant difference between student and faculty perceptions.
yeuann

How I used m-learning to help a P4 boy improve his English - 6 views

Sure, Ashley! Glad you like this... please go ahead and share with your class! :)

mobile Apps iphone m-learning

started by yeuann on 22 Jul 11 2 follow-ups, last by yeuann on 24 Jul 11
Kartini Ishak

Teachers told not to friend students on Facebook - 1 views

digitallife.today.com

facebook learning

shared by Kartini Ishak on 14 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Facebook is not banned from the classroom. Facebook pages or groups established for classroom use are allowed — as is most other social media. However, teachers are strictly forbidden to communicate with students through any personal means, such as private instant messages or through personal Facebook profiles. According to the advisory, teachers must decline student-initiated friend requests, and never initiate a friend request with a student. The college asserts that when a teacher and a student become friends in an online environment, the dynamic between them is forever changed. An invisible line between professional and personal is crossed, which can lead to strictly forbidden informal conversations.
  • Kartini Ishak on 14 Apr 11
     
    The Ontario College of Teachers report accompanied by a 6-min YouTube video on the approach to social media in the classroom.
Ashley Tan

Nik's Learning Technology Blog: Create Video Questionnaires - 1 views

nikpeachey.blogspot.com/...eate-video-questionnaires.html

CeL video questionnaire intervue.me

shared by Ashley Tan on 21 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • The site enables users to create questionnaires and then get the recipients of the questionnaire to leave video recorded answers.
  • How to use Intervue.me with studentsCreate comprehension check questions to go with reading homework so that students also do some speaking for homework.Create opinion polls for students to answer.Make action research questionnairesPlay the alibi game and get students to explain where they were and what they were doing at particular points in time.Ask students about childhood memories.
Ashley Tan

Instructional & Multimedia Designin Angry Birds - 7 views

Here were my preliminary thoughts on incorporating Angry Birds in education: http://ashleytan.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/angry-birds-for-learning/

apps mobile iphone ipad learning

started by jasonyai on 05 Jul 11 1 follow-up, last by Ashley Tan on 06 Jul 11
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Ashley Tan

NIe-Learning - 2 views

www.cel.nie.edu.sg/...resources_antiplagiarism.html

shared by Ashley Tan on 25 Oct 11 - No Cached
    • Ashley Tan
      Ashley Tan on 25 Oct 11
       
      Use a consistent way of capitalising words, e.g., "Free online" should be Free Online.
    • Ashley Tan
      Ashley Tan on 25 Oct 11
       
      Update the descriptions of the tools.
    • Ashley Tan
      Ashley Tan on 25 Oct 11
       
      Spelling error in content of 3rd tab/
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • You may want to find out what is NTU’s policy on plagiarism, how do the faculty maintain academic integrity, and how student can avoid plagiarism by going to the following web site..
    • Ashley Tan
      Ashley Tan on 25 Oct 11
       
      Change 2nd tab content to: Find out what NTU's policy on plagiarism is, how faculty maintain academic integrity, and how students can avoid plagiarism.
    • Ashley Tan
      Ashley Tan on 25 Oct 11
       
      Change the overall descriptor. The following are some online resources on plagiarism. Students should take note that these organisations are not affiliated with NIE nor do they check on past year's works. The free services provided by third parties are an alternative for Students check on written work. Students should at all times adhere to their tutor's instruction as to where they should submit their assignments.
  • Ashley Tan on 25 Oct 11
     
    My comments in stickies...
yeuann

Tuition at Learn-to-Code Boot Camp Is Free - Until You Get a Job | Wired Business | Wired.com - 1 views

www.wired.com/...free-learn-to-code-boot-camp

education learning

shared by yeuann on 16 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • In a few months, another graduating class of college students will stumble out into an unforgiving job market weighed down by staggering debt. But one school in one of the hottest hiring markets in the country is flipping the script on student loans: until you get a job, you don’t pay.
  • yeuann on 16 Mar 13
     
    We have the flipped classroom... now we have the flipped student loan! 
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