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Learning through Blogging: Graduate Student Experiences
Learning through Blogging: Graduate Student Experiences
eLearn Magazine on one instructor's experiences using blogs with graduate students. He found that blogs were very motivating for students and helped them learn and reflect. His experience with blogs was very positive.
In reality, most students write many more entries than the minimum required. They also read each other's entries, and comment on them, as do I as the instructor. While the blog writing is motivated as a class assignment, student enthusiasm for the activity is contagious: Once a critical mass of active student bloggers is established (and of course, there are some who steadfastly refuse to have anything to do with it, incentives and penalties notwithstanding), off they go!
·elearnmag.org·
Learning through Blogging: Graduate Student Experiences
BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Google U
BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Google U
Jeff Jarvis asks what the disaggregated university would look like, with students and professors both picking and choosing the best of what they wanted.
Start here: Why should my son or daughter have to pick a single college and with it only the teachers and courses offered there?
Similarly, why should a professor pick just from the students accepted at his or her school? Online, the best can pick from the best, cutting out the middleman of university admissions.
Once you put all this together, students can self-organize with teachers and fellow students to learn what they want how and where they want. My hope is that this could finally lead to the lifelong education we keep nattering about but do little to actually support. And why don’t we? Because it doesn’t fit into the degree structure. And because self-organizing classes and education could cut academic institutions out of the their exclusive role in education.
·buzzmachine.com·
BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Google U
Creating Passionate Users: Ten Tips for New Trainers/Teachers
Creating Passionate Users: Ten Tips for New Trainers/Teachers
Kathy Sierra, from 2005, arguing that simply having taken a lot of classes doesn't make one a good teacher or trainer ("I'd make a good brain surgeon, because I've HAD brain surgery.") However, she also argues that motivated people can be self-taught.
But with that out of the way, nobody needs a PhD (or in most cases -- any degree at all) in education or learning theory to be a good teacher. Just as there are plenty of great software developers and programmers without a CompSci degree. People <i>can</i> be self-taught, and do a fabulous job, for a fraction of the cost of a formal education, but they have to be motivated and they have to appreciate why it's important.
·headrush.typepad.com·
Creating Passionate Users: Ten Tips for New Trainers/Teachers
Learnlets » Theory foundations for ISD?
Learnlets » Theory foundations for ISD?
Clark Quinn on the value of understanding the theories behind instructional design. He suggests that at least some exposure to the theories is necessary because you have to understand WHY you're doing what you're doing.
You don’t have to read Vygotsky in the original Russian, but what you can <strong><em>not</em></strong> do, and I see all too often, is follow a cookie-cutter approach which says “I have to have an introduction, concept, example, …”, and then write one of each without understanding what are the key principles behind each of those elements.
Note that Cammy is a ‘reflective practitioner’ to use Schön’s term, as she reads and <a href="http://learningvisions.blogspot.com/2007/05/humble-learning-moment.html" title="Cammy Bean's learning reflections" target="_blank">reflects</a> on what she does. That’s why she’s effectively done her own ‘masters’ in learning/ISD. So, I’m not comfortable with trusting experience over time to yield competent results, I think it takes someone being an ongoing learner. That’s easier in a well-designed program, though the caveat is that all programs are not necessarily well-designed.
·blog.learnlets.com·
Learnlets » Theory foundations for ISD?
Kapp Notes: Value of Instructional Designers
Kapp Notes: Value of Instructional Designers
Karl Kapp explains his view of the value of instructional designers in integrating multiple theories and making learning experiences more effective. If the delivery medium doesn't matter (and the research says it doesn't), then the quality of the design is what matters.
The discipline (and it is a discipline) borrows heavily from psychology, cognitive science, behavioral science, information design theory, and media design theory. However, it is the blending of these theories and ideas into the design of instruction that makes the difference between merely presenting information and creating an event in which learning actually occurs.
·karlkapp.blogspot.com·
Kapp Notes: Value of Instructional Designers
Kapp Notes: We Need a Degree in Instructional Design
Kapp Notes: We Need a Degree in Instructional Design
Karl Kapp argues that instructional designers should have formal training, and that if degrees were required that it would be better for the field of ID as a whole. Understanding the theory and research behind ID, plus having standards and best practices, would make instructional designers more effective.
As a professor of instructional technology and a consultant in the field who has written, reviewed and advised on ID projects for hundreds of organizations big and small. I have to say that in my extremely biased opinion...a degree is not only needed, <strong>it should be required!</strong>
On an individual basis, it is possible to learn enough, be smart enough and talented enough to eventually become a top notch designer (as Cammy is a great example.)but this doesn't benefit the field as a whole. And, I would argue those cases are rare.
But to say that you can develop instruction without understanding the underlying theories, developments and ongoing research trends is not believable to me. <br><br>I've seen too much bad instruction which has pointed me in the direction of saying that a degree is needed.
·karlkapp.blogspot.com·
Kapp Notes: We Need a Degree in Instructional Design
Adobe - Developer Center : Using animations to extend Adobe Captivate for right-click capability
Adobe - Developer Center : Using animations to extend Adobe Captivate for right-click capability
It's always been irritating when creating software demos in Captivate that you can't ask users to right click. I've always just animated those actions and done a demo before, but this tutorial shows a way to actually have users do the right click and even score it. The Flash file to embed is included with the tutorial.
·adobe.com·
Adobe - Developer Center : Using animations to extend Adobe Captivate for right-click capability
elearnspace: Collective Intelligence? Nah. Connective Intelligence
elearnspace: Collective Intelligence? Nah. Connective Intelligence
George Siemens distinguishes between collective and connective intelligence, highlighting the importance of maintaining individual identity.
J<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Surowiecki">ames Surowiecki</a> explored a similar concept in Wisdom of the Crowds. Surowiecki's book is often misunderstood. He makes the point that people do not <em>think together</em> in coming to certain conclusions, but rather than people think on their own and the value of the collaborative comes in the connection and combination of ideas. Each person retains their own identity and ideas, but they are shaped and influenced by the work of others.
Collective intelligence places the collective first. Connective intelligence places the individual node first.
·elearnspace.org·
elearnspace: Collective Intelligence? Nah. Connective Intelligence