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Ted Curran

Breadcrumb-- an easy Android app dev tool for Mobile eLearning games - 0 views

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mobile android branching elearning games

shared by Ted Curran on 21 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Ted Curran on 21 Nov 10
     
    A cool project that makes it easy to create branching eLearning scenarios for delivery as an Android app.
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The Cape Town Open Education Declaration - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 12 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Read the Declaration
  • 1. Educators and learners: First, we encourage educators and learners to actively participate in the emerging open education movement.
  • 2. Open educational resources: Second, we call on educators, authors, publishers and institutions to release their resources openly.
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  • 3. Open education policy: Third, governments, school boards, colleges and universities should make open education a high priority.
  • These strategies represent more than just the right thing to do. They constitute a wise investment in teaching and learning for the 21st century. They will make it possible to redirect funds from expensive textbooks towards better learning. They will help teachers excel in their work and provide new opportunities for visibility and global impact. They will accelerate innovation in teaching. They will give more control over learning to the learners themselves. These are strategies that make sense for everyone.
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Blackboard vs. Moodle: North Carolina Community Colleges Assessment - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 23 Apr 10 - Cached
  • “The end-of-term student and instructor surveys showed that Blackboard and Moodle are not that different.” All of these systems are pretty good/bad.
  • “The real difference is found in student perception of their teachers’ comfort level with the application. There exists a significant correlation between student survey scores of both Blackboard and Moodle with the perceived comfort level of instructors using either application. Thus, student perceptions of both CMSs were influenced by instructor experience, training, and skills.” The fact that your faculty reviewers are more familiar with your old system than some of the alternatives may bias their evaluations significantly.
  • “Case studies of four exclusively Moodle institutions indicated that while transition to Moodle was challenging, ultimately the case study students and faculty preferred Moodle over Blackboard.”
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  • “The CMS application functionality comparison by online administrators (application and network) and online instructors indicated that Moodle 1.9x has a higher perceived functionality than any version of Blackboard evaluated. The large number of “did not use” responses suggested that neither CMS platform was utilized to full capacity.” Having a system with 39,000 seldom-used features that require a course to learn how to use is not as valuable to you as having a system with 39 features that most people will find useful and can figure out how to use on their own.
  • “The analysis revealed the total pre-transition year cost for all four case study colleges totaled $184,410. There was a 35% increase in total cost in the transition year to $248,300, due to supporting two CMSs simultaneously. Lastly, the post-transition year cost of ownership was $52,296, which accounted for a 72% decrease in total cost compared to that of the pre-transition year. The total cost savings from preto post-transition years for all of the case study colleges was $132,114.” Consider long-run costs as well as short-run costs. Migration may be cheaper than staying put, and the more expensive migration in the short run may be cheaper in the long run.
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Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal L... - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 09 Mar 11 - Cached
  • If you want more than a simple bookmarking tool, Diigo is for you! Compared with other bookmarking tools, Diigo enables you to do so much more. Period.
  • If you read a lot digitally, Diigo is for you! Compared with other information management tools, Diigo is differentiated by its focus on e-reading.
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      Ted Curran on 09 Mar 11
       
      Diigo is an excellent way for groups of people to collaboratively annotate a website online. All notes, annotations, and bookmarks go into a socially comment-able feed that allows users to co-construct knowledge.
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Why Bother Being Open? « iterating toward openness - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 09 Mar 11 - Cached
  • I’ve always been an “argue by describing the benefits” kind of guy as opposed to an “argue on grounds of moral superiority” kind of guy (which is why I end up in the open camp more often than the free camp).
  • a free-to-access, online “digital publication of high quality university-level educational materials… organized as courses, and often includ[ing] course planning materials and evaluation tools as well as thematic content” that does not use an open license is not an OpenCourseWare.
  • MIT OCW, the website says, “Each course we publish requires an investment of $10,000 to $15,000 to compile course materials from faculty, ensure proper licensing for open sharing, and format materials for global distribution.”
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  • 25% of the per-course publication costs (not technology infrastructure or external outreach costs – I’m talking about costs directly related to publishing a course) derive specifically from the desire for the final publication to employ an open license.
  • what is the return on this investment? What benefit are users deriving from open licensing that they could not derive if MIT published these materials online with a default copyright statement?
  • Would users still receive this benefit if MIT OCW were posted online with a traditional, full copyright statement?
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Selecting an Open-Source Online Course Development and Delivery Platform: An Academic P... - 0 views

pcf4.dec.uwi.edu/viewpaper.php

shared by Ted Curran on 25 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Ted Curran on 25 Aug 10
     
    Abstract Increasingly, educators are implementing course development and delivery platforms to place their distance courses online in order to expand accessibility to educational opportunities, make use of multimedia capabilities, and provide effective management of the teaching and learning experience. These platforms are also referred to as course management systems (CMS), learning management systems (LMS), learning portals, or e-learning platforms. They are integrated, comprehensive software packages that support the development, delivery, evaluation, and administration of online courses and can be used in both traditional face-to-face instruction and in an online environment. The decision to obtain such software is frequently made by administrators and computer managers. However, academics should play a significant role in this decision process, as they must create and manage an enticing, interactive learning environment that is easy for the instructors and learners to use. This paper focuses primarily on the instructor and learner perspectives of online course management systems, but also considers administrative factors such as student record keeping, technical requirements, and the cost of ownership. It is intended to meet the needs of educators who are contemplating the acquisition of this type of software or want to change from one platform to another.
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SCORM » SCORM Cloud - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 15 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Ted Curran on 15 Oct 10
     
    This is a system for allowing any Web 2.0 tool to generate SCORM data so you can collect grade scoring data and populate it into your LMS gradebook.
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Image, audio and video tools: A-Z - 0 views

www.c4lpt.co.uk/...media.html

shared by Ted Curran on 20 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Ted Curran on 20 Oct 10
     
    Great collection of multimedia tools for educators.
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Prof. Jones's wiki / Class Notes Assignment - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 29 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Ted Curran on 29 Nov 10
     
    An "out of the box" assignment for having students create class notes wiki-style.
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'Open Courseware' Idea Spreads - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 17 Feb 10 - Cached
  • "People who come to public health are committed to really making a difference in the lives of people," he says. "By and large academics, especially in public health, realize that the availability of the content is going to have a beneficial effect."
  • Copyright is another challenge in running open-courseware projects, the meeting's participants say.
  • Many professors regularly use charts, graphs, or other illustrations they've culled from textbooks or other copyrighted works in slide presentations or handouts. Although using those illustrations in a classroom is allowed under fair-use provisions of copyright law, universities must get permission before putting the same materials online where anyone can see them.
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  • He says he prefers material on open-courseware sites over that found on professors' Web sites. "There's some level of quality control and general oversight associated" with open courseware, he says. "If I'm just strolling around on the Internet and come across some random professor's Web site," he adds, "it just kind of dilutes my confidence in it, and it makes me spend a lot more time really sitting down and looking for what I like."
  • Though officials hope the materials will have educational benefit, they stress that they are not a substitute for taking courses at the institutions.
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