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Learning Visions: Ruth Clark: Evidence Based E-Learning #dl09 #dl09-104
Learning Visions: Ruth Clark: Evidence Based E-Learning #dl09 #dl09-104
Cammy Bean's live blogged notes from DevLearn with Ruth Clark. Lots of this is the multimedia principles I've read before (and maybe don't always apply in authentic learning environments, but that's another story). The research on animations vs stills was new to me though.
Imported from Diigo#research#multimedia#animation#learning#learningstyles#elearning
·learningvisions.blogspot.com·
Learning Visions: Ruth Clark: Evidence Based E-Learning #dl09 #dl09-104
Angela Maiers Educational Services: Personal Branding and Education - Thoughts on "Me 2.0"
Angela Maiers Educational Services: Personal Branding and Education - Thoughts on "Me 2.0"
A discussion of personal branding and its connections to education, arguing that being able to demonstrate your talents and passions is a 21st century skill
Speaking from both his head and heart, Dan makes he compelling case that it is <strong>no longer is it enough to show that you are great, you have to show why you are a great</strong> match for a culture and brand of the company you want to work for. You have to be able to sell yourself, your talents, your passions, your uniqueness. (<a href="http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=261&amp;Itemid=120">Aren't these Key 21st Century Skills?</a>)
Imported from Diigo#education#identity#reputation#21stcenturyskills
·angelamaiers.com·
Angela Maiers Educational Services: Personal Branding and Education - Thoughts on "Me 2.0"
Volunteer Opportunity to Build Your eLearning Portfolio | onehundredfortywords
Volunteer Opportunity to Build Your eLearning Portfolio | onehundredfortywords
Info on an organization looking for volunteer instructional designers/developers to create content for job seekers. They are OK with content being used in a portfolio, so this is a good place to gain some experience and get something to show for a portfolio.
Imported from Diigo#portfolio#career#instructionaldesign#elearning
·onehundredfortywords.com·
Volunteer Opportunity to Build Your eLearning Portfolio | onehundredfortywords
Sakai Pilot Evaluation Final Report
Sakai Pilot Evaluation Final Report

UNC report on their pilot of Sakai as a replacement for Blackboard. Quote from a faculty member in the report: "Have heard many complaints about Blackboard being kludgy. Sakai is graceful."

The minimal support needed is a good sign of Sakai's overall usability: "First, of the more than 1,000 people using a completely new collaborative learning environment for almost a full year period, we had a total of 264 tickets—the vast majority of which (74%) were for requests to use the system (new sites and new user accounts)...In summary, from a support perspective, 54 substantive help requests on behalf of more than 1,000 pilot participants over a nearly one-year period was a very positive finding."

Imported from Diigo#highered#education#sakai#lms#blackboard#usability#elearning
·unc.edu·
Sakai Pilot Evaluation Final Report
Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn: Scientific American - Sean Kearney's Lifestream
Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn: Scientific American - Sean Kearney's Lifestream
Interesting research--totally flies in the face of how most of us think about designing learning. Do we design learning environments that allow people to fail enough to learn?
The idea embedded in this approach is that if students make errors, they will learn the errors and be prevented (or slowed) in learning the correct information. But <a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&amp;id=2009-09620-017&amp;CFID=24407194&amp;CFTOKEN=49068829"> research </a> by Nate Kornell, Matthew Hays and Robert Bjork at U.C.L.A. that recently appeared in <em>the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition</em> reveals that this worry is misplaced. In fact, they found, learning becomes better if conditions are arranged so that students make errors
Imported from Diigo#learning#research
·seanpkearney.posterous.com·
Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn: Scientific American - Sean Kearney's Lifestream
Open Access Educational Technology journals – George Veletsianos
Open Access Educational Technology journals – George Veletsianos
Looking for research on e-learning, instructional design, educational technology, or related topics? Check out these open access journals. Great to have a filtered list for this rather than having to dig through some of the larger directories.
Imported from Diigo#edtech#education#technology#research#openaccess#instructionaldesign#elearning
·veletsianos.com·
Open Access Educational Technology journals – George Veletsianos
The New Literacy: Stanford study finds richness and complexity in students' writing
The New Literacy: Stanford study finds richness and complexity in students' writing
Young people write more than they used to, and they don't just write when it's required. The study also found that spelling errors aren't as much of a problem as they were 20 years ago, now that spell check software is easily accessible.
Today's kids don't just write for grades anymore. They write to shake the world. Moreover, they are writing more than any previous generation, ever, in history. They navigate in a bewildering new arena where writers and their audiences have merged.
For these students, "Good writing changes something. It doesn't just sit on the page. It gets up, walks off the page and changes something," whether it's a website or a poster for a walkathon.
Imported from Diigo#writing#web2.0#change#research
·physorg.com·
The New Literacy: Stanford study finds richness and complexity in students' writing
You call this Academic Honesty? | Webb of Thoughts
You call this Academic Honesty? | Webb of Thoughts
Great example of why I get so frustrated when I hear people complaining about how terrible it is that students copy and paste content. I'd like to see the teachers and professors stop using uncited content themselves first; I see a lot more problems with people with graduate degrees. This lecturer on effective writing plagiarized content for handouts while simultaneously admonishing students to not plagiarize.
Imported from Diigo#writing#education#highered#plagiarism
·kylewebb.edublogs.org·
You call this Academic Honesty? | Webb of Thoughts