Study Suggests Many Professors Use Interactive Tools Ineffectively in Online Courses – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education. Tweet
Around the World
Examples of interest on online learning and technology in learning from around the world.
The Twitter Experiment – Twitter in the Classroom
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Here’s a great video of one example of Twitter in the Classroom. It includes interviews with students on how they benefit from using Twitter, and the lecturer explains the value of Twitter to her. There’s also an article, How Twitter…
The PE Geek The First Scotland’s Colleges’ Webinar
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I’ve just enjoyed a presentation by Jarrod Robinson, a Sports Co-ordinator from Australia. He talked us through his use of ICT in his classroom – and sports field. You can follow his excellent blog at www.pegeek.com and find links to all that…
elearningeuropa.info launches its new user oriented platform
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The elearningeuropa.info website is well worth a hunt around, both for inspiration and for finding out what’s happening in Eurofunding land in relation to elearning. And now they’ve revamped the site. See: elearningeuropa.info launches its new user oriented platform Tweet
Humanising the Classroom
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I’ve talked about the Khan Academy here before, and about what an impressive resource it is. Here is a TED talk by the founder of the Khan Academy where he explains how he started it, and his philosophy. I draw…
A mini-course on infotention by Howard Rheingold
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I like this piece on for three reasons. 1) The subject. Information overload and how to manage it. Rheingold talks through his approach to the sifting and sorting the information avalanche, and, ih his phrase: “the literacy of crap detection.”…
Lecture Capture Brings K-12 Classes Online
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“We’re no longer relegated to sharing this information via a four-paragraph letter,” stated Dunkelberger. “It only takes a few minutes to put together a short video, embed it and distribute it.” See Lecture Capture Brings K-12 Classes Online — THE Journal.…
Studying online kills uni life, halves student attendance
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THE push towards web-based learning at universities has halved student attendance rates in some courses and dramatically increased working hours for lecturers. This is the conclusion of a survey done for an Australian website. It is an admittedly small sample…
Online Coursewares Existential Moment – Inside Higher Ed
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A piece from Inside Higher Ed that explores that outcome of Higher Education Institutes releasing course content online and for free. Who does it really benefit? Why are they doing it? News: Online Coursewares Existential Moment – Inside Higher Ed.…
Egyptian Crisis Lesson Plan
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Now this is technology at its educational best. We have an ongoing news story of true importance – the crisis in Egypt – and some enterprising folk have gathered together ideas and resources for lessons on the topic, and at…