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Martin Burrett

TES iboard - 0 views

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literacy English science history geography maths numeracy early years EYFS

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  • Martin Burrett on 08 Jan 12
     
    This is a superb site from the TES with a large collection of great flash whiteboard resources for across the curriculum for Primary schools. There is something for everyone here! http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular
Cara Whitehead

Early Elementary Science Curriculum - K-2 Interactive Science Program - 0 views

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science elementary curriculum interactive science program

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  • Cara Whitehead on 06 Oct 13
     
    Online, interactive, standards-based science curriculum www.science4us.com
Nigel Coutts

Girls & STEM - 0 views

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education learning technology maths science girls

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  • Nigel Coutts on 27 Sep 15
     
    Watching video from the Apollo space programme one can't help but notice how things have changed since those days in the early 1970s. Banks of small round rectangular screens, dot matrix printers, a myriad of switches and dials each with a specific task to perform and a design aesthetic that says functionality in mild mannered green. What is missing beside the sort of computing power we carry in our pockets today are women. In the 70s science and engineering was what men did and from a quick look at the statistics there continues to be much room for change.
Shannon Panzo

Reading, Speed Reading, Dyslexia, and Photographic Memory - 3 views

Speed Reading vs. Reading: …a short synopsis of some basic differences and misconceptions: How to gain the most from the written page is not found in the technique you learned ...

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Dianne Rees

Book List from Early #lrnchat Discussion Aug 26 « #Lrnchat Blog - 2 views

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  • Dianne Rees on 30 Aug 10
     
    book recommendations from #lrnchat discussion
cristina costa

My last two years of work - GuyWeb - The personal website of Guy Carberry - 0 views

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  • Until early this year we were a rather fragmented bunch but Twitter h
Kathy Cannon

News: The Obama Plan - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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shared by Kathy Cannon on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Experts on distance education at community colleges said that the president's proposals on creating free online courses could be historic and transformative.
  • "And this will make it possible for a professor to complement his lecture with an online exercise, or for a student who can't be away from her family to still keep up with her coursework. We don't know where this kind of experiment will lead, but that's exactly why we ought to try it because I think there's a possibility that online education can provide especially for people who are already in the workforce and want to retrain the chance to upgrade their skills without having to quit their job."
  • He said that the college has expanded courses offered online, and in the early morning, or nights or weekends, but that "the bottom line is that we have to build capacity."
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  • Of late, educators and foundations have been focusing more on graduation rates, with the City University of New York starting programs and planning a new model of community college to focus on getting students degrees, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Lumina Foundation for Education spending big on efforts to improve remedial education and graduation rates.
  • Advocates for online learning also viewed Obama's plans as significant. Fred Lokken, associate dean of Truckee Meadows Community College for its WebCollege, said this was "the very first comprehensive effort by the federal government that recognizes the importance of online learning."
  • Catherine M. Casserly, who studies technology issues at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, said she saw the program leading to "a dual approach," in which students could view the new material or community colleges would get well-prepared material around which local instructors could plan instruction
  • "It's very hard to supplement something if the base is being undermined," he said. "We can't look at this as a panacea."
  • Indeed, late Tuesday, that's exactly what Democrats in the House proposed doing, when they announced plans to move ahead soon on Obama's student loan restructuring proposal, which paves the way for paying for the community college plan.
  • Kathy Cannon on 15 Jul 09
     
    $500 million would be awarded to create online instructional materials that would be available free to community colleges and their students. \n\n"And this will make it possible for a professor to complement his lecture with an online exercise, or for a student who can't be away from her family to still keep up with her coursework. We don't know where this kind of experiment will lead, but that's exactly why we ought to try it because I think there's a possibility that online education can provide especially for people who are already in the workforce and want to retrain the chance to upgrade their skills without having to quit their job."
  • Kathy Cannon on 15 Jul 09
     
    Obama's plan could be transformative according to distance education expert.
Glenn Hoyle

Interaction Equivalency in Self-Paced Online Learning Environments: An Exploration of L... - 0 views

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interaction equivalency instructional_design self-paced research

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  • This exploratory study sought to examine the experiences and preferences of adult learners concerning the various interactions that they encounter in a self-paced online course. The following four primary research questions guided data collection and analysis efforts: 1. What forms of interaction do adult learners engage in most in self-paced online courses? 2. What forms of interaction do adult learners value most in self-paced online courses? 3. What forms of interaction do adult learners identify as equivalent in self-paced online courses? 4. What impact do adult learners perceive interaction to have on their self-paced online learning experience?
  • Deep and meaningful formal learning is supported as long as one of the three forms of interaction (student–teacher; student-student; student-content) is at a high level. The other two may be offered at minimal levels, or even eliminated, without degrading the educational experience. High levels of more than one of these three modes will likely provide a more satisfying educational experience, though these experiences may not be as cost or time effective as less interactive learning sequences. (Anderson, 2003)
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      Mike Fandey on 25 Apr 09
       
      The perception of high level is key. If a single interaction approach is selected and the learner opts not to engage, then "high level interaction" is not achieved.
  • Participants further noted that they engaged most actively with the instructor and course content, commensurate with findings of previous research pointing to the necessity of such fundamental interactions (Gallien & Early, 2008; Heinemann, 2003; Pawan, Paulus, Yalcin, & Chang, 2003; Perry & Edwards, 2005; Stein, Wanstreet, Calvin, Overtoom, & Wheaton, 2005). The results of this study further strengthen the literature calling for the development of specific competencies not only for those designing online learning but also for those who facilitate online learning experiences of various formats (Klein, Spector, Grabowski, & Teja, 2004; Varvel, 2007).
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  • Research Question 2: What forms of interaction do adult learners value most in self-paced online courses?
  • Participants hailed the blogging and social bookmarking activities as integral to the quality of the overall learning experience, noting the synergy of formal and informal interactions that such activities fostered.
  • Participants noted that although they enjoyed the interactions with other learners and often wished for more, they conceded that in the self-paced, online learning environment such interactions are challenging.
  • informal learning environment that was crafted placed maximum control with the learners. Such informal learning environments provide an open venue for learners to connect with others interested in the same concepts either in a different course section or at a different stage of the course (Rhode, 2006).
  • Participants identified interaction with the instructor and content as very nearly equivalent in a self-paced online course. Participants pointed out that quality interaction with content is indispensable in the self-paced learning environment and can not in any way be replaced. They also indicated that interaction with the instructor could potentially be diminished and compensated for through increased quality interactions with content or learners. Participants further noted that while interaction with other learners is desirable within the self-paced learning environment, the self-paced nature of the course makes such interactions challenging. Therefore, learners were willing to forgo interpersonal interactions deemed by some as tangential in exchange for the flexibility afforded by the self-paced learning approach.
  • In a granular analysis of the various interaction activities, participants generally reported the activity of blogging as equivalent or superior to asynchronous discussion via the discussion board in Blackboard. Such findings add to the burgeoning body of research supporting the pedagogical possibilities of blogging as a flexible asynchronous communication alternative to threaded discussion via a restricted learning management system
  • This mixed methods study explored the dynamics of interaction within a self-paced online learning environment. It used rich media and a mix of traditional and emerging asynchronous computer-mediated communication tools to determine what forms of interaction learners in a self-paced online course value most and what impact they perceive interaction to have on their overall learning experience. This study demonstrated that depending on the specific circumstance, not all forms of interaction may be either equally valued by learners or effective. Participants differentiated among the various learning interactions available and indicated that informal interactions were as important as formal interactions in determining the quality of the online learning experience. Participants also reported the activity of blogging as being equally valued and in some ways superior to instructor-directed asynchronous discussion via the discussion board in a learning management system.
  • Glenn Hoyle on 25 Apr 09
     
    Learning takes place through active engagement rather than passive transmission.
Olga Gonzalez

Must See YouTube: Teaching Content is Teaching Reading | New America Blogs - 0 views

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reading comprehension

shared by Olga Gonzalez on 13 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Willingham's core message: While decoding skills and vocabulary are essential for students to read proficiently, reading comprehension requires something more. To truly comprehend what they read, students need a strong base of content knowledge that allows them to connect concepts on the page with existing knowledge to understand what the text is telling them. The implication for policy and practice? If we really want children to read proficiently, we need to not only teach them to read, but also equip them with content knowledge in a wide range of subjects.
Glenn Hoyle

Vanderbilt Center for Teaching: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) - 8 views

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assessment resources teaching learning sotl

shared by Glenn Hoyle on 23 Apr 10 - Cached
  • In an effort to define the scholarship performed by professors in academia as more than just "teaching versus research," Ernest L. Boyer, in his influential book Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate (Carnegie Foundation, 1990), concluded that "the work of the professoriate might be thought of as having four separate, yet overlapping, functions.
  • Randy Bass, director of the Visible Knowledge Project (VKP), described the SoTL projects initiated by the participants in VKP. Their central questions were "How did they know that their students were learning?" and "Did the students' learning promise to last?" He writes, "By asking these questions, many faculty discovered early on that what most interested—or eluded—them about their student's learning could not be answered simply by looking at regularly assigned course work."
  • Glenn Hoyle on 23 Apr 10
     
    Definitions and background for SoTL.
Judith Meyer

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    Documentary Heaven was set up early July 2009 to provide the public with a vast collection of documentaries spanning across every genre out there.
John Onwuegbu

eBook: Inside Windows 10 - An Early look at Microsoft's Newest Operating System | Quest... - 5 views

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evcventures

Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital sets up $50mn fund in India - 0 views

Global venture capital firm Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital (EVC) today launched a USD 50 million fund inIndia to build and support technology ventures in the country. "The organisat...

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evcventures

Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital sets up $50mn fund in India - 0 views

Global venture capital firm Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital (EVC) today launched a USD 50 million fund in India to build and support technology ventures in the country."The organisation aims t...

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evcventures

EVC (ENTREPRENEURSHIP & VENTURE CAPITAL) ANNOUNCES $50 MILLION FUND FOR INDIA - 0 views

EVC (Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital), a leading global venture capital firm today launched a fund of $50 million in India. EVC is a global venture capital fund that is focused exclusively o...

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evcventures

Here is what made Sequoia Capital an investment powerhouse! - 1 views

Since its founding in 1972 Sequoia has backed startups that now command a astounding $1.4 trillion of combined stock market value, equivalent to 22% of Nasdaq.Sequoia Capital was and continues to r...

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Antwak Short videos

AntWak | Short videos from real people with real insights - 0 views

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EDTECH ELEARNING LEARNING TECHNOLOGY ONLINE EDUCATION

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  • Antwak Short videos on 03 Mar 21
     
    One such effort to address the continuous learning needs of professionals is AntWak AntWak is a "Social Learning Platform" which believes that the knowledge professionals painstakingly accumulate by years of industry experience is invaluable. Early professionals can benefit immensely from this "Experiential Knowledge" to become better professionals and chart more rewarding careers for themselves AntWak has recently been recognized by multiple EdTech platforms as one of the most promising platforms for professionals
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