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MentorMob and LearnZillion have teamed up to create a comprehensive collection of Common Core aligned learning playlists perfect for providing students with easy access to guided learning experiences.
Multimedia age has changed the role of teachers. The need for audiovisual aids to support e-learning, mobile learning, distance and blended learning have reformed the role of educators, who are now becoming producers to enrich their teaching with mediums like podcasts, videos, animations, interactive presentations.. etc.
Why to use Video technology in education?
Video Technology has been proven to be a very powerful tool in motivating, engaging and instructing within the educational concept. Because of the advantages of transformability and transferability that video provides, has open the horizons of teaching and learning. Video can enhance the learning experience by showing places and phenomena that otherwise could not be seen, which adds "experiential value" (Koumi, 2006) in students understanding. Moreover video allows demonstration of procedural activities in detail when used for instruction and allows personal improvement as it can be a valuable tool for self-reflection.
Does your learners prefer acquiring and processing information via images, pictures, maps, graphs, charts, illustrations, and other visual aids? Since they are visual learners have you though of using infographics at your course?
At the List of Free Tools to Create Infographics for your Learners you will find 22 Free tools to help your learners acquire knowledge the "visual" way.
Top 5 Advices for creating learning Infographics
Would you like to create for Free an eLearning course in Facebook and share it with your learners, and your learners with their friends and followers?
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Word Clouds in Education: Turn a toy into a tool
When it comes to finding the deeper meaning in a text passage, a word cloud is a simple application that you might have seen as a cute bit of fluff rather than a useful academic tool. Most word cloud programs work in the same, straight-forward way; the more a word is used in the text, the bigger it is shown in the cloud. A glance at a cloud is an easy way to preview a passage, or to analyze text. So what does this mean for your courses?
http://elearningindustry.com/subjects/tools/item/375-word-clouds-in-education-turn-a-toy-into-a-tool
List of Free Childhood and Youth Online Courses from The Open University
Are you interested in a List of Free Childhood and Youth Online Courses from The Open University?
The Open University offers several Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for people interested in Childhood and Youth. At List of Free Childhood and Youth Online Courses from The Open University you will find 10 MOOCs from The Open University.
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The 10 Best Pinterest Boards About eLearning
Pinterest was not created for being used as an eLearning resource. However, a lot of eLearning professionals use Pinterest to organize and share all the valuable things about eLearning Industry that they found on the web.
To help you find the most interesting Pinterest boards about eLearning I create the following list of The 10 Best Pinterest Boards about eLearning. The following boards are curated by professionals involved in the eLearning Industry.
I am sure that you will discover new things about eLearning and you will get inspiration from eLearning professionals who share your interests.
I highly encourage you to Add Your eLearning Pinterest Board! Please leave a comment with a link to see what YOU are pinning and connect with you!
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The Best LinkedIn Groups About eLearning
LinkedIn is my favorite social network because the most of its members are acting as professionals! This is why I created a list of the best LinkedIn Groups about eLearning!
Would you like to network with Instructional Designers and eLearning professionals? Would you like to find eLearning companies for business collaborations? Would you like to find a temporary or a project based job at the eLearning field? The list of the following Best LinkedIn Groups about eLearning could help you achieve more than that.
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12 YouTube Videos Every Online Educator Should View
What are the benefits for the teacher and learner in the context of open education and OER? How does a blended-learning school boost student achievement? How can we design the schools for 21st Century Learning? How will be the classroom of tomorrow? What are the tools and resources for the 21st Century Educator?
At the 12 YouTube Videos Every Online Educator Should View you will be able to answer the above questions and even more. You will get an idea of what your students are capable of and what are expecting from you. Do not forget that educational technology is the median and it is hear to help you achieve better learning outcomes. It is in your hand how effectively you will use it since we are the digital immigrants and our students/learners are the digital natives!
http://elearningindustry.com/subjects/concepts/item/395-12-youtube-videos-teacher-educator-should-view
Visual Engagement Takes it up a Notch with Camtasia 8
If you watched the Camtasia Studio for E-learning webinar last month you probably caught on pretty fast that the revamped quizzing feature and interactive hotspots available in Camtasia Studio make for an amazing degree of interactivity. But students can still find a courses boring no matter how much clicking and dragging they get to do if the course itself is not visually engaging.
http://elearningindustry.com/subjects/tools/item/401-visual-engagement-camtasia-8
Converting Large Group Classes to Massive Online Courses
Last month, the NY Times declared 2012 as the year of the MOOC. With so many educators and students involved in these courses, we should think about how we can best convert the university course experience to this new, scalable online experience. For simplicity, let's break the process of transferring knowledge into three parts: instruction, coaching, and assessment / feedback.
http://elearningindustry.com/subjects/concepts/item/397-large-group-classes-massive-online-courses-mooc
I have been creating a lot of student projects that use ThingLink as a tool for learning. I have also received a handful of of questions from teachers who are highly interested in facilitating a similiar project of their own, but need help with the management involved.
"With so much active student engagement, how do you manage a project like this?"
Students can construct deep knowledge about a topic as they engage in building a multimedia project. If used effectively, a well designed student-driven learning experience can take the place of traditional methods of teaching content. Use of digital tools can provide students with flexible learning paths to meet their unique learning styles.
What I'm learning from Harvard: A MOOC story
Taking a bit of my own advice, I recently started working through a computer programming MOOC from Harvard, with the goal of distilling out teaching tips and online course ideas from a student's perspective. While learning some useful job skills, I will share my experience to help designers of MOOCs and traditional online classes think about best practices in their course design.
http://elearningindustry.com/subjects/general/item/408-learning-from-harvard-mooc-story
Technology is an effective and engaging tool that can be used to improve vocabulary acquisition for all learners and engage them in the learning process. Technology resources can provide students with a variety of multimedia content to help them construct knowledge about vocabulary in a way that meets their unique learning needs. Technology allows teachers to design learning experiences that provide students with flexible learning paths. This post will explore some digital tools for helping students construct knowledge about vocabulary.