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.
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Web 2.0 Learning Environment:Concept, Implementation, Evaluation - 0 views
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Summary This contribution presents and evaluates a new learning environment model based on Web 2.0 applications. We assume that the technological change introduced by Web 2.0 tools has also caused a cultural change in terms of dealing with types of communication, knowledge and learning. The answers given by eLearning scholars who intend to use the creative options offered by Web 2.0 in institutional learning are summarised in the first part of the paper. In this theoretical overview we introduce the concepts of eLearning 2.0 and Personal Learning Environments, along with their main aspects of autonomy, creativity and networking, and relate them to the didactics of constructivism and connectivism. The requirements and basic functional components for the development of our particular Web 2.0 learning environment are derived from these. The learning environment we present consists of several components (modules) that are well-known Web 2.0 applications such as wikis, weblogs, social bookmarking services and RSS feeds. The section describing the implementation of the environment in a use case at the Darmstadt University of Applied Science focuses on the specific didactic contribution the particular learning modules render towards the entire learning arrangement. The article explains the didactic potential of the wiki platform in more detail, since it serves as the integrating module (or learning centre) of the learning arrangement. Our learning environment was tested and evaluated during the "Social Software" seminar held in the information science study course at Darmstadt University of Applied Science in 2007/08. A questionnaire-based survey reveals interesting facts regarding the success of the practical implementation of the Web 2.0 arrangement with respect to the motivation and learning outcome of students. The survey was supplemented with some non-formalized feedback in a concluding discussion. With these results in mind this paper finally provides some remark
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Centre for Distance Education - Collaborative Tools Evaluation Site - 0 views
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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)
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Helpful Hints to Help You Evaluate the Credibility of Web Resources - 1 views
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How can I tell if a website is credible? - 1 views
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blog of proximal development | - 1 views
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the students would not respond well to a teacher who enters the class blogosphere only to assign work or to evaluate their writing.
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Teachers who start using blogs sometimes play the old-fashioned role. It's great when they become aware of the importance of being there as one participant. Thus, teachers are more likely to be accepted and treated as a valuable source rather than the one who decides what has to be done and how good a piece of work is.
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I was very impressed - the students had turned to the community of their peers to request feedback. Then, I realized that none of the children asked me for feedback.
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they were not ready for corrections yet - they were simply interested in having conversations about their ideas.
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Next: An Internet Revolution in Higher Education - BusinessWeek - 0 views
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The Harvards of the world won't go away. They will continue to be the high-fidelity players
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Even though technologies emerged that might foster new models of higher education, the neat accreditation ecosystem locked out innovative competitors.
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Isn't this a summary of what some of us have to go through? It's kind of a role-conflict at the organizational level. The (manifest) function of university education has shifted away from learning toward giving credit for a set of skills. More than universities being vocational schools, it's about universities focusing on evaluation. Are there still learning institutions, out there?
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Just as the Internet has helped blow down the doors of the music industry, newspapers, and the travel-agent business, it will eventually do the same to higher education.
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This may be too big a leap, for a number of people. But it has the advantage of making the problem visible. In fact, in contexts through which "information" and "education" are associated with democracy, what has been happening to newspapers is more likely to convince university people that there might be a problem than anything about the music industry. Especially if we think about the obsession with "intellectual property" which seeped into university contexts and is only being challenged now.
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cheap, easy, and good-enough degree
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http://www.miller-mccune.com/business_economics/computer-error-1390.print - 2 views
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the goal is improving education for children in the developing world, there are plenty of better, and cheaper, alternatives.
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The OLPC concept has been pioneered in a number of school districts in the United States over the last decade
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Repeated calls and e-mails to OLPC and Negroponte seeking comment on OLPC did not receive a response
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etting children in developing countries into school and helping them learn more while they are there