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Paul Beaufait

Diving In: The Open Waters of Digital Resources and Open Educational Resources (OER) - OLC - 2 views

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    "The question I pose is not how we use digital or OER,  but how we use the combination of both types of resources to provide pedagogically rich, high quality, cost-effective resources for students"
Paul Beaufait

eLearning Course Evaluation: The Ultimate Guide For eLearning Professionals - eLearning... - 1 views

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    In this 2015.04.17 post, Pappas covered "why eLearning course evaluation is important, when to do it and, most importantly, how."
Paul Beaufait

Centre for Distance Education - Collaborative Tools Evaluation Site - 0 views

  • he site is designed to help distance educators and their students to select appropriate methods of course development and delivery. Athabasca University (AU) in Alberta is Canada's Distance Education University, teaching over 20,000 students around the world, completely via distance education methods and media. The evaluation site is maintained by AU's Centre for Distance Education (CDE), as a collaborative activity by its faculty and graduate students.
  • The highest priority is given to software that can be downloaded from the internet and used at no cost. New product categories will be added, and the existing ratings updated.
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    "The site is designed to help distance educators and their students to select appropriate methods of course development and delivery. Athabasca University (AU) in Alberta is Canada's Distance Education University, teaching over 20,000 students around the world, completely via distance education methods and media. The evaluation site is maintained by AU's Centre for Distance Education (CDE), as a collaborative activity by its faculty and graduate students." (Intended Audience, ¶1) Retrieved 2009.09.14, "last updated February 21, 2008" (page footer)
Alexandre Enkerli

http://www.miller-mccune.com/business_economics/computer-error-1390.print - 2 views

  • glitterati
  • Silicon Valley
  • World Economic Forum
  • ...69 more annotations...
  • emotional resonance
  • we all know and value
  • looked good
  • aspired to
  • countries without comprehensive electrical grids
  • soured
  • underperformed
  • 50 percent of staff were being laid off and a major restructuring was under way
  • the project seems nearly dead in the water
  • And that may be great news for children in the developing world.
  • Innovate
  • Negroponte and other techno-luminati
  • lobbied national governments and international agencies
  • technology optimists
  • take control of their education
  • There's no question that improving education in the developing world is necessary.
  • trending dramatically upward
  • school attendance
  • highly respected center
  • they don't seem to be learning much
  • international science exam
  • powerful argument
  • the goal is improving education for children in the developing world, there are plenty of better, and cheaper, alternatives.
  • instinctive appeal
  • precious little evidence
  • circumstantial evidence
  • The OLPC concept has been pioneered in a number of school districts in the United States over the last decade
  • the technology didn't work any better than a normal classroom teacher
  • the teachers simply weren't using the computers
  • few experimental studies to show a positive impact from the use of computers
  • substituting computers for teachers
  • supplement
  • Negroponte has explicitly derided
  • It must be said
  • academic
  • teachers limited access to the computers
  • had not been adequately trained
  • not silver bullets
  • surveys of students
  • parents rolling their eyes
  • evaluation of an OLPC project in Haiti
  • Repeated calls and e-mails to OLPC and Negroponte seeking comment on OLPC did not receive a response
  • ironic
  • a leader in
  • the Third World
  • cheap
  • proven successful
  • etting children in developing countries into school and helping them learn more while they are there
  • There are
  • deworming
  • technology-based approaches to improving student learning in the developing world
  • show more promise than one laptop per child
  • the J-PAL co-founder
  • Remedial education
  • A study in Kenya
  • expensive
  • quarter of the cost
  • cheaper
  • it didn't matter
  • co-founder of J-PA
  • $2 per month
  • $3 per month
  • $2.20
  • 30 percent increase in lifetime earnings
  • $4 per student per year
  • 50 cents per child per year
  • tens of millions of dollars
  • children
  • children
Dr. Nellie Deutsch

Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL): Login to the site - 1 views

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    A few more places left for the November, 2011 6-week workshop on how to administrate your Moodle. Participants will receive free ongoing support for as long as they wish during and after the workshop. The workshop costs $150: http://www.integrating-technology.org/course/view.php?id=300
Dr. Nellie Deutsch

Moodle for Teacher Administrators - 2 views

A few more places left for the November, 2011 6-week workshop on how to administrate your Moodle. Participants will receive free ongoing support for as long as they wish during and after the worksh...

Moodle for Teachers

started by Dr. Nellie Deutsch on 26 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
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