My e-Learning Don'ts | MinuteBio - 1 views
8 Great TED Talks About The Future Of Education And Teaching | EDUCAUSE - 1 views
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"Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms This delightfully illustrated video entertains while educating. The video does a wonderful job of explaining how today's factory-like education model is outmoded and how it needs to evolve into a more personalized model if we are going to take it to a new level. Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education This video discusses "The Hole In The Wall" experiment that Mitra started in New Delhi in 1999. Children deprived of learning opportunities available in other parts of the world nevertheless figured out the computer at their disposal and started using it to learn and to teach each other. These results repeated themselves as the experiment was conducted in various other locales. Kids can and will teach kids. How can we take advantage of this to improve on education across the world?"
Is the iPad Ready To Replace the Printed Textbook? -- Campus Technology - 0 views
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"After trying out the Apple iPad for a short period--about three weeks--three out of four college freshmen said they'd be willing to purchase an Apple iPad personally if at least half of the textbooks they used during their college career were available digitally, according to the results of a classroom poll at Abilene Christian University. According to Scott Perkins, coordinator of mobile learning research in the Adams Center for Teaching and Learning at the Texas university, a similar willingness to purchase the devices was borne out among participants in semester-long pilots, which included both graduate and undergraduate students."
Marcia Baxter Magolda - self authorship - 0 views
Marcia has done fascinating research on student development through a longitudinal study of students over a 20 year period. As she tracked students over time, she defined 3 stages of what she call...
Reporting & Analysis of Mobile Learning: Is It Worth It? by Skip Marshall : Learning So... - 1 views
IPTEL 2013 - 0 views
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For those interested in a global dialogue on increasing access, equity and engagement through innovations in technology-enabled learning. This conference is designed to provide an international forum to explore lessons, challenges and possibilities related to the provision of technology-enhanced learning in a rapidly changing global context. Of particular interest are research and practice that enhance access, engagement and outcomes for students at all levels, who are learning to use educational technology in their practice.
Consistency in Production: Naming Variables for E-Learning | The Rapid E-Learning Blog - 0 views
The LMS Instructure Makes Its Move into the K-12 Market - 2 views
The learning management system upstart Instructure is unveiling Canvas K-12 today, a version of its platform aimed - as the name suggests - for the K-12 level. The company says that it's already ha...
A Model of Learning Objectives - 4 views
The Future of E-Learning is Crowdsourcing | Online Universities - 0 views
Edmodo | Secure Social Learning Network for Teachers and Students - 0 views
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What's interesting about this tool is not so much that it is an online learning environment for teachers and their students, but that it can also be used to make connections between teachers. This could be useful for instructors who may feel isolated at their particular school and a chance to branch out.
Evidence-based learning supported by eportfolios - 0 views
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2012/02/15/evidence-based-learning-supported-by-eportfolios.aspx
Don't Lecture Me: Rethinking How College Students Learn | MindShift - 1 views
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That’s the irony of becoming an expert in your field, Mazur says. “It becomes not easier to teach, it becomes harder to teach because you’re unaware of the conceptual difficulties of a beginning learner.”
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To make sure his students are prepared, Mazur has set up a web-based monitoring system where everyone has to submit answers to questions about the reading prior to coming to class. The last question asks students to tell Mazur what confused them. He uses their answers to prepare a set of multiple-choice questions he uses during class.
The end of assessment as we know it « Enzo Silva blog - 2 views
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“The concept of a job is going away” (Bersin, 2012) and so should the concept of assessment. At least assessment as we know it. Or the assessment forms that we dearly esteem. The truth is, most educators teach to assess. Yes, the end goal of the learning experience is to prepare learners to succeed in the assessment. Does anyone else see something wrong with this picture?
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"The concept of a job is going away" (Bersin, 2012) and so should the concept of assessment. At least assessment as we know it. Or the assessment forms that we dearly esteem. The truth is, most educators teach to assess. Yes, the end goal of the learning experience is to prepare learners to succeed in the assessment. Does anyone else see something wrong with this picture?
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