QUT Learning Design

From the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies

Discusses 'learning measurement'. It includes a Course Review Template aimed at measuring how performance focussed the course is. Also, his link to a previous article (The Five failures) is worth a read.

At its start, Facebook was once exclusively for college students. But as it has grown in popularity and become adopted by everyone from grad students to grandmas, its usefulness has grown, too.

Trinity College Foundation Studies at the University of Melbourne began an iPad pilot in August 2010. We launched the pilot with roughly 50 students and 20 staff exploring the use of technology in the classroom.

The E-Primer series: #1 - E-learning in context - An introduction to e-learning and the international experience; definitions of terms; a theory for e-learning; technologies; benefits #2 - E-education and faculty - Education theory and e-learning; the changing role of faculty; workload issues; quality #3 - Designing for e-learning - Instructional design; learning objects; constructing a hybrid course #4 - Online discourse - Synchronous and asynchronous communications; designing online discourse; online facilitation. #5 - Extending e-possibilities - Web 2.0; ePortfolios; virtual worlds; lifelong learning, etc A blog updating various elements of the E-Primers is being kept at http://e-ako.blogspot.com/

A fantastic example of a visual resume?

...equipping students for the learning and assessing they will need to do after completing their course and the challenges they will face after graduation.

"Google is advertising on its Google Labs page an experimental tool which aims to liberate web developers from the confines of Adobe's Flash platform. They are calling it Swiffy (sweet) and its sole purpose is to convert Flash SWF files to HTML5. But make no mistake about it - this is about Apple's iOS gadgets. "

"Tech geeks Leo Laporte and Sarah Lane love their iPads so much, they've created "iPad Today," the TWiT network's first show highlighting the best apps, most helpful tools, coolest tricks, and essential news surrounding the iPad revolution. "iPad Today" is smart, informative, and lots of fun. Recorded live Thursdays at 1:30pm PT/4:30pm ET on http://live.twit.tv."

Also includes useful training info for Google docs: http://edutraining.googleapps.com/Training-Home/module-4-docs

Matt Bower, John G. Hedberg & Andreas Kuswara (2010): A framework for Web 2.0 learning design, Educational Media International, 47:3, 177-198 This paper describes an approach to conceptualising and performing Web 2.0-enabled learning design. Based on the Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge model of educational practice, the approach conceptualises Web 2.0 learning design by relating Anderson and Krathwohl's Taxonomy of Learning, Teaching and Assessing, and different types of constructive and negotiated pedagogies to a range of contemporary Web 2.0-based learning technologies. The learning design process can then be based upon the extent to which different Web 2.0 technologies support the content, pedagogical, modality and synchronicity requirements of the learning tasks.