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Sylvia Currie

Eportfolios: In search of a silver bullet - Kwantlen Mahara Pilot - 0 views

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    "My interest in eportfolio tools grew out of efforts to solve a very practical problem: how to allow students to manage and share files (especially large media files) beyond the confines of the institutional learning management system. Students were increasingly asking for better ways to collaborate with classmates and share course and assignment files, as well as for the ability to access their work beyond the duration of a single course. My experimentation with with eportfolio tools began with Mahara, an open source eportfolio application. I piloted the use of Mahara with a small group of students to test whether it would meet their file sharing needs. It was quickly apparent that without faculty engagement, students would be unlikely to invest time in using such a system on their own. This led me to wonder if other institutions had been down similar paths. "
Sylvia Currie

SCoPE: Seminars: ePortfolios: May 31-June 13, 2010 - 0 views

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    2-week seminar at SCoPE "An ePortfolio is an online collection of your work that you choose to represent your skills and interests to diverse audiences." University of British Columbia During this 2-week seminar Catherine and Roselynn will introduce us to UBC's Portfolio Community of Practice. They have invited members of the CoP to share their teaching and course eportfolios and encourage all seminar participants to discuss their experiences with portfolio projects. This seminar will be of interest to those involved in or curious about portfolio projects, as well as to those interested in building and facilitating faculty communities of practice.
Paul Beaufait

Donald Clark Plan B: Jay Cross: informal learning guru - 0 views

  • Informal learning is driven by conversations, communities of practice, context, reinforcement through practice and now social media to “optimise organisational performance”. Blogs, wikis, podcasts, peer-to-peer sharing, aggregators, social media and personal knowledge management are all emergent phenomena, unlike the top-down tools and content that traditional e-learning has provided.
  • There’s still a need for underpinning learning with good content, from books to full courses, especially for novices and business critical training such as compliance. You can’t let people who don’t know what they need to know, drift, so there’s a time and place for structured, formal learning.
  • Even ‘e-learning’ is avoided as it also leads to a default of dull, page-turning courses.
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  • Cross asks us to reflect on the obvious, but shocking, fact that almost all of our attention (and spend) goes on the formal side, while the majority of the action is informal. Much to his credit he does not abandon formal learning, but asks us to consider the accelerating role of technology in on informal learning. He moves us beyond traditional LMS and content model and beyond blended learning to a newer more naturalistic model of learning, based on real behaviour and contemporary technology.
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    Clark introduces Cross, who in turn distinguishes pushed learning from pulled learning. Clark also provides a short bibliography of Cross's work.
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