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Paige Cuffe

The Ed Techie: Give me an M! - 8 views

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MOOC change11 OU

shared by Paige Cuffe on 28 May 12 - No Cached
  • Open courses don’t need to be massive,
    • Paige Cuffe
      Paige Cuffe on 28 May 12
       
      YES! Some things have to be discussed in a group, not a series of 'like-minded' sub-groups.
  • one of the potential benefits of MOOCs is a form of liberation of the curriculum
  • support
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  • what might be interesting is the combination of MOOCs with local, face to face support.
  • we’re coming back to educator constructed courses.
    • Paige Cuffe
      Paige Cuffe on 28 May 12
       
      This is what addresses the 'learner frustration'!!! Come to learn from others because I can't get there from OERs alone... I am seeking expert guidance.
  • Paige Cuffe on 28 May 12
     
    Martin Weller's short blog on what a MOOC is and what it might be.
Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen

Week 10: Erik Duval Learning in a time of abundance ~ #change11 - 3 views

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Erik Duval abdundance MOOC #change11 learning

shared by Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen on 20 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • As in most courses I ‘teach’, I expect that I will be the one who learns most…
  • e resul
  • Secondly
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  • The third effec
  • In this week, I’d like to explore how this abundance and the ‘connected, open and always on‘ world it has created influences what and how we learn and teach
  • , then we need to prepare them to leverage that abundance
  • Really big caveat: of course, all of this abundance talk is only relevant to us who are the privileged few, who do not need to worry about where we will sleep this evening, or how we will feed our children…
Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen

Learnlets » Slow Learning - #change11 - 0 views

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Clark Quinn learning #change11

shared by Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen on 20 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Our limitations are no longer the technology, but our imaginations
  • “work is learning and learning is work”,
  • how would you construct an optimal performance environment for yourself?
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  • We see that we learn by being engaged in meaningful activity, and working with others.
  • I like Collins, Brown, & Holum’s Cognitive Apprenticeship as a model for thinking more richly about learning.  Other learning models are not static
  • I’m really arguing for the need to come up with a broader perspective on learning
  • I’m looking to start matching our technology more closely to our brains
  • meaningfulness, activation and reactivation, not separate but wrapped around our lives
  • I think this framework will need to start with considering the experience design, what is the flow of information and activity that will help develop the learner
  • I don’t need or want an LMS and I often don’t need a ‘teacher’ in the traditional sense, though I welcome the wisdom of coaches and mentors.
  • In self regulated learning, evaluation is a metacognitive event
  • . Much of what my students discussed is similar to my ideal. Briefly, here are some elements, organized under the four categories of appreciative inquiry: 1) Discovery-the best of what we have previously experienced: sense of accomplishment, respect, sharing ideas, supportive atmosphere to enable taking risks. 2) Dream-best of what might be: have real life application, synergy and energy, flexible and fun, open discussions, clear direction, ideas flying around, taking on complex ideas, confidentiality in that “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”. After these discussions, we went on to 3) Design-what it might truly look like and 4) Delivery-what will we commit to, an individual ranking of items central to creating a best learning experience.
  • The majority of us cannot live on the farm or in the bush; but can we design learning experiences along a similar model where learners contribute something of value to the community?
Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen

Avoiding the Trap of Clicky-Clicky Bling-Bling - 1 views

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#change11 design technology

shared by Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen on 20 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • "All that is clicky-clicky bling-bling does not make for an effective learning experience."
  • s a load of elearning junk
  • It's just shiny wrapping paper covering up a pair of crummy socks with holes in them.
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  • " Ruth Clark and Richard Mayer in the industry classic e-Learning and the Science of Instruction, explain that seductive details are "interesting but irrelevant material added to a multimedia presentation in an effort to spice it up
  • Seductive details are those elements in a program that draw you in, attract the eye and engage the brain. They seduce your interest, but distract from the main point.
  • It's interactive! It's intriguing! But it's exhausting, and let's face it"—there's no point. Fatigue sets in and you move on
  • This is the premise underlying the arousal theory, the idea that entertaining and interesting embedded effects cause learners to become more emotionally aroused and therefore they work harder to learn the material.
  • . Designers who don't understand the basics of effective instructional design are committing what Clark Quinn of Quinnovation calls "instructional design malpractice.
  • CCBB design shines and sparkles wildly in the sun
  • Too much clicking can lead to learner fatigue, is distracting to the learner, and doesn't promote deeper understanding
  • When we force learners to practice without context, they've memorized facts but may not be able to apply them correctly in context.
  • We need to provide more contextual opportunities for drill exercises that will help the learner both retain and apply the knowledge they are practicing.
  • "Well-written, multiple-choice questions teach and assess knowledge within the context of a game. Poor questions simply allow the gamer to play the game without learning.
  • that the addition of interesting yet unimportant augmentations can divert learners from learning the main points that are being made
  • . You're best served to spend your time designing the right type of course and spending less time looking for ways to 'jazz it up'"
  • . Now, take a look at the screen and see where your eye lands first. Is it the flashing Next button in the bottom right corner? Or is it the important content bit at the center of the screen? Ask an objective outsider to take a look, too
  • Pilot your program with some test learners
  • heck in with them immediately afterwards, one week, three weeks. See what they remembe
  • , don't take this to mean that elearning shouldn't look good.
  • What about your LMS? At Kineo, where I work, we love using Moodle and Totara as an LMS solution for our clients, not only because of the great features and the fact that it's open source, but always because we can make it look like almost anythin
James Mackenzie

Using mLearning and MOOCs to understand chaos, emergence, and complexity in education | de Waard | The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning - 5 views

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ChangeMOOC

shared by James Mackenzie on 29 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • James Mackenzie on 13 Dec 11
     
    ChangeMOOC
  • James Mackenzie on 13 Dec 11
     
    what is a self-organising system? They don't define. In a strict sense there cannot be such a thing - if any thing is in touch with its environment then it is being organised by its environment as much as by itself. Alternatively, "self-organising" is an unnecessary tautology - it doesn't add anything to the idea of a thing being a system. At best, chaos/complexity is a very loose analogy, not very helpful - because this learning network process is not shown to behave in exactly the ways prescribed by Prigogine etc (the makers of chaos theory). At best it suggests that the learnings gained by the participants are not initially foreseen (as they are supposed to be in a more formal education programme). In principle chaos/complexity theory could be used to explore the trajectory of learning in the system, if not that of individual participants.
Tai Arnold

"Or Equivalent" | iterating toward openness - 2 views

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#change11 badges MOOC

shared by Tai Arnold on 23 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • The point is that there isn’t currently a very good way to show you know what you’re doing other than to have a branded piece of paper that claims you do.
  • Tai Arnold on 23 Sep 11
     
    Badges as alternative to sheepskin -- will employers go there?
Tai Arnold

'Harnessing America's Wasted Talent': You Don't Need a Weatherman….. - 0 views

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badges assessment credentialing #change11

shared by Tai Arnold on 28 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • n short, there is activity across the entire spectrum of learning, from pre-engineered and self-paced to open sourced and self-directed with more conventional models in between. All are enhanced and scalable as never before by the web and web-enabled technology.
Allan Quartly

News: Academic Publishing and Zombies - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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scholar journals peer-reviews publishing technology change11

shared by Allan Quartly on 01 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Fitzpatrick argues that journals should throw the door open to all comers, then deputize their readers to usher sound articles to a pedestal and banish bad ones to the margins. Scholarly journals would serve their constituencies better “by allowing everything through the gate, and by designing a post-publication peer review process that focuses on how a scholarly text should be received,” she writes, “rather than whether it should be out there in the first place.”
Tai Arnold

Learning with 'e's: Blogging about - 5 views

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openness learning blogging

shared by Tai Arnold on 03 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • I know, academic publishing has never really been about how many people read your work, it's usually more to do with the kudos gained from publishing in an elite journal. And that's exactly what is so badly wrong with the current academic publishing system.
  • Blogging is an ideal popularist method for making ideas and research accessible for all.
  • Many a valuable debate has already been had on blogs, with a simple post as the stimulus for valuable dialogue across a community of practice.
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  • Finally, anyone can start a blog, share their ideas and build a community of interest around their subject. It takes a little time, effort and commitment, but the rewards can be extraordinary.
Константин Бугайчук

Open access U of T | theVARSITY.ca - 0 views

thevarsity.ca/47127

e-learning education

shared by Константин Бугайчук on 21 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Константин Бугайчук on 21 Sep 11
     
    Recommended:theVARSITY.caopen accessaccess Group dictionary:UkrEl11e-learningeducationtoolsresourcesiPadgoogleweb2.0mlearningGoogle+ Share to a Group
Tai Arnold

digital digs: Welcome to badge world - 5 views

www.alex-reid.net/...welcome-to-badge-world.html

badges assessment credentialing #change11

shared by Tai Arnold on 19 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Colleges are filled with students who could give a damn about learning but desperately need that credential.
  • Then it's all about the badges. My kids can just give up on ever having a single moment of joy in their lives. Even if they were going to enjoy something, how can they when they've already committed to this transactional experience instead?
  • The commodification of learning was already quite clear in the Reagan era when we stopped thinking of higher education as a social good and instead defined it as an individual's investment in his/her human capital. 
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  • Anyone can open their own diploma mill, err I mean badge-selling operation? Of course not. Badges would have to be accredited by someone.
  • If you want to get a badge though, that's going to cost.
  • I think the presence of a badge could actually be a detriment to an otherwise genuine learning experience.
  • ]The whole point of education organisations adopting elearning is to cut costs. They are not doing it to improve education standards. They say it's to educate more. But we know this is a smoke screen. Bean-counters run universities and colleges just like they run commercial companies.For example, The Briish Council is planning to move into distance learning big time. 10,000s of new students. Their reasons (am I #cynic) won't be to improve educational outcomes (mostly English language teaching) but to get more qualifed teachers for for their bucks.
  • lrcruz2 on 19 Sep 11
     
    Thank you for compiling this info and posting for us all. I believe this is an interesting way to engage the learner and increase their extrinsic motivation to learn. I don't see elearning as a way to cut costs but rather a way to expand the reach of learning. Learning on line is different from face to fact and therefore it's possible that this commodification of learning is necessary as a result of these changing times.
Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen

Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia ~ #change11 - 4 views

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#change11 mobile learning malaysia

shared by Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen on 21 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • The survey was carried out in more than 40 OUM learning centers throughout the nation with close to 3,000 respondents
  • it was found that 82.8 percent of the respondents said they would be ready for m-learning. Based on the survey, it may be generalized that 99 percent of OUM learners have mobile phones.
  • About 2,000 students enrolled in the May semester received a total of about 30 SMSes over a period of about 14 weeks. The responses from students were positive.
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  • Generally, the m-learning project made them more engaged with the content and activities of the course
  • In addition, some of the SMSes helped them stay motivated,
  • the SMSes helped them focus on the course, reminded them of important things
  • When we "teach" students in class in order to help them learn, we don't just help them understand the content of the lesson. We also provide tips, motivate them to do activities that will help move them along in the course, get them to participate in discussions and manage their learning/the course. It was the same with the SMSes. We believe, the will get enough content from the print module provided and from the face-to-face interactions with their tutors. So yes, m-learning was used to help "teach" as well as "manage" the student.
  • http://api.ning.com/files/U50Z6pDz8PFgpOps4yunShKHnKR0sbgJx7kyRnjI*eMXpEqJSiqz0n0GuUNtY4DBx3-BFMYIGIabLRg8EqkDO9-IevKFm5Bt/questionnairemobilelearningfirstquestion.pdf
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