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Design Matters « higher education management group - 2 views

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elearning_design design LWT2011

shared by wlampner on 09 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • growing recognition that design is not simply about making products attractive
  • easier to use, fit better into the flow of people’s lives, suit the needs of a broader range of end-users, increase productivity, and even influence emotions (which in turn can influence cognition).
  • digital higher education – both its software and content – has managed to remain untouched by good design.
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  • esign is not even on the agenda
  • just like educators.
  • design and education have remarkably similar objectives
  • Design
  • quality of design in screen-based environments dramatically influences the end-user’s experience.
  • passive form of communication
  • Both design and education attempt to leverage the user’s existing knowledge
  • maximize the audience’s retention of relevant information
  • seeks to make the complex simple
  • move beyond a one-way
  • the end-user become an active participant in the process
  • y organizing the user’s attention; encouraging them to focus on what the designer/educator feels is most important.
  • establishing a competitive difference for institutions
  • students approach education like consumers
  • seeking out meaningful differences
  • Thoughtfully designed software and content can serve as a competitive differentiators
  • tangible; students can see (and experience) the difference
  • few institutions have the talent and resources in place to leverage design
  • Nimble and intelligent institutions can use design to stake out a significant difference
Patrick Tabatcher

Prince - 0 views

www.princexml.com

ebooks software

shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 12 Jun 12 - Cached
  • Patrick Tabatcher on 12 Jun 12
     
    Convert HTML & CSS to PDF. Lets you code a lot of the navigation and content in the HTML that translate to PDF. Apparently this is used in the publishing industry for eBooks.
Patrick Tabatcher

blender.org - Free and Open 3D creation software - 0 views

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3d apps

shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 04 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Patrick Tabatcher on 04 Nov 13
     
    A free tool to create 3d graphics
Patrick Tabatcher

4 Ways to Fine-Tune Academic Innovation in Higher Ed -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 26 Jul 18 - No Cached
  • Office of Digital Education & Innovation, charged with scaling up instructional innovation and experimentation across the institution. In its early days, the office was divided into three labs:    The Learning, Education and Design Lab, focused on doing research and scholarship to understand how instructional technologies and digital media can be used in teaching, learning and collaboration; The Digital Education & Innovation Lab, which was established to help create new digital courses, including MOOCs, and help develop open educational resources; and The Digital Innovation Greenhouse, which emphasized development of software specifically to help students.
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