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Pearson-backed Startup Aims to Be the Zynga for Learning - 1 views

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Pearson

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  • wlampner on 01 Feb 12
     
    the site is peddling educational material rather than time-sucking games, and that's an important distinction. As it builds profiles of learners, it starts to make recommendations for college readiness and even career choice - all the while baiting them with the promise of more Yoops. If we can use game mechanics to get kids hooked on virtual-currency powered farm fields, why not learning?
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IFAP - Dear Colleague Letters - 1 views

www.ifap.ed.gov/...GEN1117.html

elearning USDOE dearcolleague

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  • wlampner on 28 Nov 11
     
    Mitigating financial aid fraud
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iPad and iPhone Application Development (HD) - Download free content from Stanford on i... - 2 views

itunes.apple.com/...id473757255

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  • wlampner on 16 Nov 11
     
    Free from Stanford.  
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Design Matters « higher education management group - 2 views

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elearning_design design LWT2011

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  • 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
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News: Hitting Hard on Fraud - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...ulations_targeting_fraud_rings

elearning elearning_financialaid

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  • wlampner on 11 Oct 11
     
    financial aid fraud rings associated with online programs
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New Classroom Tool Uses Laptops & Phones for Instant Assessment - 1 views

mashable.com/socrative

Clickers edtech

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  • wlampner on 04 Aug 11
     
    potential clicker alternatives, see comments for more to review
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Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

chronicle.com/...32669

qr codes

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  • wlampner on 03 Aug 11
     
    Describes ways QR Codes can be used.
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Baked In: How BenchPrep Is Turning e-Textbooks Into Virtual Study Groups | Fast Company - 2 views

www.fastcompany.com/...ooks-into-virtual-study-groups

assessment e-Textbooks

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  • wlampner on 29 Jul 11
     
    Social networking-enabled test prep textbooks with interactive quizzes.
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DoubleTake by Purdue University - Mobile learning and video sharing - 1 views

www.itap.purdue.edu/...doubletake

video

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  • wlampner on 26 Jul 11
     
    DoubleTake provides instructors an easy way to assign, manage, and grade student video projects. Students can use the DoubleTake mobile application to produce and submit videos for course assignments or, alternatively, upload captured video through a separate Web interface. 
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Demand for online learning likely to grow in British Columbia - 0 views

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elearning

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    Demand for online learning likely to grow in British Columbia
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Videos - Session 2 « FOTE conference - 0 views

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integrator UA-Integrator AR

shared by wlampner on 26 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 26 Jul 11
     
    Great video demonstrating capabilities of AR to make learning more experiential.
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Higher Ed E-Learning Growth To Continue at Modest Pace Through 2015 -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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E-Learning technology

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  • wlampner on 21 Jul 11
     
    Predicted Expenditures for elearning tools and services
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State Regulators Work to Clarify Regulations for Distance Education Providers... - 1 views

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State_auth

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  • wlampner on 30 Jun 11
     
    Recent stateauth changes.
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Blind Florida State U. Students Sue Over E-Learning Systems - Wired Campus - The Chroni... - 1 views

chronicle.com/...32028

accessibility

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  • wlampner on 30 Jun 11
     
    Mentions accessibility issue with clickers.
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