Weblogg-ed » New MacArthur Study: Must Read for Educators
Selected points from a MacArthur study, “Living and Learning with New Media,” with points about how technology can help students become more self directed and allow them more control over their own learning
Source: Experiencing E-Learning
Results from the National Survey of Student Engagement. The full report has limited information about online learning, but does include results showing that students in online courses report more deep learning, intellectual challenge, and reflection than those in face-to-face courses.
tags: education, e-learning, research
Source: Experiencing E-Learning
Staying the Course: Online Education in the United States, 2008
Sloan-C report on online learning in US higher ed. Among the findings:
* 12% growth in the last year
* 20% of students took at least one online course in fall 2007
* Current economic problems (rising unemployment and fuel costs) are predicted to increase demand for online learning
Half an Hour: The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On
Stephen Downes revisits his predictions from 1998 and looks forward to future trends.
Source: Experiencing E-Learning
12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean | CSS | Smashing Magazine
Tips for good, clean html. I have several bad habits I could work on from this list.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Source: Experiencing E-Learning
Creating Custom Buttons in Captivate 3
Directions to create custom buttons in Captivate, with the required file names and location to put the finished files
tags: captivate, e-learning, howto
Source: Experiencing E-Learning
Possibilities Abound–: Exploring, Considering and Proposing— CCK08
Collection of metaphors for new roles for teachers and instructional designers from a number of sources. Includes sharer, pattern builder, curator, organic gardener, wizard, and environmental engineer. Interesting place to start if you’re looking for different ways to think about our roles and who has the power.
Source: Experiencing E-Learning
Systems thinking and innovation | effectivedesign.org
Live blogged notes from AECT about systems thinking, innovation, and games for learning. Lots of side comments too, including some good connections to instructional design and getting too bogged down in multiple theories.
Source: Experiencing E-Learning
Aggregated resources for e-learning. Essentially, this aggregates feeds from a large number of e-learning-related blogs and lets you do a metasearch across them. You can also browse by keyword, tools, and companies.
tags: e-learning, learning, web2.0, tagging
Source: Experiencing E-Learning
Brave New Classroom 2.0 (New Blog Forum) | Britannica Blog
Discussions pro and con about technology in the classroom, in response to this question: “Do the new classroom technologies represent an educational breakthrough, a threat to teaching itself, or something in between?” Michael Wesch and Steve Hargadon are two of the educators included in the discussion.
Source: Experiencing E-Learning
Why I Blog - The Atlantic (November 2008)
Andrew Sullivan on the value of blogging and how blogging differs from traditional print journalism.
tags: blog, writing, journalism
Source: Experiencing E-Learning
ZaidLearn: 8 Free Screencasting Tools For Tony!
Tony Karrer bumped into his limit for a free Jing account, so he asked for other free tools. Zaid Ali Alsagoff provides some options to check out.
Half an Hour: Things You Really Need to Learn
Source: Experiencing E-Learning
A Networked Life – Ton Zijlstra on Social Networking
Full quote from Ton Zijlstra on information overload, in the original interview about the value of social media and networking
tags: quoteable, informationliteracy, networks, socialnetworking
Source: Experiencing E-Learning
What would Dr. Seuss Say about Online Communities?
5 minute presentation on slideshare with tips for guiding online communities
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Source: Experiencing E-Learning
