Experiencing eLearning

JULY 13, 2008

A reader sent this question to me today: I was wondering if you read Clayton Christensen’s prediction that by 2019, nearly 50 percent of high school courses will be taught online. Â What exactly did the author mean by this? Â Did he mean that by this particular date that nearly 50 percent of high school students will be at home doing virtual schooling or that 50 pecent of the high school courses will have an “alternative online option&# to the course.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 16, 2008

The title really says it all, but here was my experience. I booked tickets for several one-way hops through different cities in a long week of travel on several airlines through Expedia. I needed to make a change to one of the legs and there's no way to do that online, so I called Expedia customer service. For a dual fee - both Expedia and the airline charge a fee for changing the ticket they changed the leg.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 18, 2008

Preston providing instruction and answering questions in Second Life. So the second week of the summer Learning in 3D class was exciting. We have an impromptu guest speaker.Preston Straaf aka Matt Monahan. Matt and I have teamed up at several conferences as co-presenters (see ASTD TechKnowledge 2008, Lots of Fun and Second Life Training Presentation for more details on our presentations) so it was great to team up with him again.

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From the Coleface

JULY 16, 2008

Many organisations that currently offer face to face training to clients have wrestled with the problem of what to do about blended learning and how it fits their commercial model. At the ELN Showcase, Claire Little of SHL cut through the pontificating and gave some practical insights into how SHL had gone about making its certificate programmes in chartered psychology into a blended offering, cutting a 3 day face to face workshop down to 2 days + online learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 17, 2008

Google Docs Templates for Students & Teachers. Google Docs templates for syllabi, lesson plans, calendars, research reports, quizzes, and more. tags: education , google , template , lessonplans.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 16, 2008

Even after a long day, the audience of college faculty members of the PA State System of Higher Education asked insightful questions about "digital diversity". Last night, I had the privilege to speak with a group of my colleagues from universities across the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Each year the system holds a Summer Academy that discusses issues regarding teaching and learning and this year the conference was held at Bloomsburg University with the topic of "Teaching Dive

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Lars is Learning

JULY 13, 2008

Last week I was invited to speak to all the teaching staff at City College, a higher education institution in Brighton, UK, which in its own words: Each year over 2,000 full-time learners, 13,000 part-time learners as well as many international and European students choose City College as their education provider. The main thrust of my presentation was to stimulate a recognition that the.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 16, 2008

Main Page - Social Justice Wiki. Collection of student research on social justice organizations in New York City. Created with a wiki: each time the professor teaches the class, more organizations will be added to the growing resource. tags: socialjustice , diversity , wiki , highered , education.

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Vignettes Learning

JULY 14, 2008

Series # 1 - Can we use formal learning structure as a framework in implementing Learning 2.0? One of the most challenging issues in implementing a new method, tool or a way of thinking is how to replace the prior behaviors and thinking. In implementing Learning 2.0 (Social networking in learning) I encounter the usual problems I experience in implementing traditional e-Learning and Webinars.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 16, 2008

In my listing of Alternatives to Second Life , many packages were missed. Here are two more. MPK20:Sun's Virtual Workplace "Wonderland" The MPK20 virtual world is also known as Wonderland. Sun employees can accomplish their real work, share documents, and meet with colleagues using natural voice communication. Plans for future updates include the ability to share applications in the virtual environment, and to link whiteboards in physical meeting rooms with the virtual space to show up in both o

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Lars is Learning

JULY 13, 2008

According to the BBC news site: Service personnel are to be given university education free of charge after they end their duty with the armed forces, it has been reported. The UK government will pay tuition fees to study for GCSEs, A-levels, university degrees or other qualifications. This is in part a response to a recent Ministry of Defence survey of 9,000 servicemen and women suggested that.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 15, 2008

Trendpedia - blog trend search. Graphs the number of blog posts over time which include a search term or phrase. Works even for terms with low numbers of actual posts (e.g., edupunk). You can compare the trends for up to 3 terms at a time. tags: blog , visualization , patterns.

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Learning with e's

JULY 18, 2008

Well, they covered the story two weeks ago in one of the local rags. You know, local boy does good on the world stage. I am of course referring to the fellowship awarded to me by EDEN last month in Lisbon. So I get a call last night to say - do you know your picture is in the paper tonight? My first reaction was - you hum it, I'll play it. But when I looked, there I was in full colour with a big headline in the Evening Herald.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 14, 2008

Here are some interesting videos showing how Second Life can be used to design and deliver health related training and actual client support within a virtual world. This one is focused on nursing education. This one demonstrates various views of how a virtual platform can help mental health and other patients. Here is a video that shows how a "branching story" type interaction is used to provide training to students in a medical setting.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 18, 2008

I've been catching up on the postings that I had earmarked for further review, typically those that involve listening to a podcast or watching a video. Stephen Downes alerted me to John Medina's 'Brain Rules: 12 principles for surviving and thriving at work, home and school', a book, but also an alluring collection of videos which you can find on John's blog.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 12, 2008

Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Working Wikily: The fine lines between content and curriculum and self-directed learning and instruction … Beth Kanter on the process of developing curriculum collaboratively with a “swarm&# of contributors on a wiki. tags: wiki , collaboration , learnercontrol , education , e-learning , creativecommons.

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Learning with e's

JULY 17, 2008

So the cat's out of the bag, and it looks like the days of the computer mouse are numbered. According to the BBC News online article today, manufacturers are thinking of dropping the mouse in favour of multi-touch gesturing and facial recognition devices. The BBC article argues that although it may still have a purpose in the office, for home entertainment, the mouse is already a dead duck (?).

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Vignettes Learning

JULY 15, 2008

I have been reviewing the blog discussions on Work Literacy Gap and Frameworks between Harold Jarche , Tony Karrer and Michelle Martin's. The discussions are very helpful in formulating my thoughts on the issues of social learning tools, technologies and impacts on performance. The exchange of ideas is very rich with practical stories and theories. Michelle asks this question: "In talking with various experts in the worlds of Information Literacy, Information Seeking, Personal Information Manage

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Clive on Learning

JULY 17, 2008

In reading Garr Reynold's excellent Presentation Zen (more about that in a later post), I came across a great idea for conferences and meetings called Pecha-kucha. Apparently, Pecha-kucha (Japanese for chatter) was started in 2003 by Tokyo expatriate architects Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein as an alternative presentation format. Each speaker has 20 slides, each of which must be shown for 20 seconds, with which to tell their story or make their point.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 18, 2008

US Copyright Sliderule. Flash sliderule for figuring out whether something is protected by US copyright or not based on publication date and other factors. tags: copyright.

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Learning with e's

JULY 16, 2008

One last reference to my delayed flight home earlier this week, and then I won't mention it ever ever again, I promise. I wanted to make a comment about the in-flight movie. It was the most boring film I have ever seen. There was no dialogue, no sound track. There were no actors in the film. I don't even know who directed it. It consisted of a tiny white plane flying painfully slowly across oceans and mountain ranges.

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Jay Cross

JULY 18, 2008

The evening of Monday, July 28th, Clark Quinn and I will be facilitating a discussion on the future of the book at the NextNow Collaboratory in Berkeley. I love books; my shelves are perpetually overflowing no matter how many cartons I give away or recycle. Nonetheless, the form of the book as we’ve known it is under severe pressure, and it’s not just the people who don’t believe in sending the world’s forests to paper mills.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 14, 2008

A survey by Cegos Group , reported in this month's issue of e.learning age magazine, finds that companies in the UK are leading the way in Europe by providing training to some 61% of their staff. In France, Germany and Italy, less than half has any training. Consider also that more companies in the UK are benefiting from technology-driven training programmes than their EC counterparts.

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Janet Clarey

JULY 18, 2008

I’m watching my son mow the lawn methodically in straight lines. He does the same thing every week. He executes his work. He waits until the grass is dry enough, decides whether or not he is going to use the bagger, moves stuff out of the way, uses the push mower first then the rider, etc. Plan. Execute. Admire. My lawn mowing technique is more crop circle-like.

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2008

I spent the day yesterday touring around the area with some of the delegates from the conference. Our first stop was the Putrajaya 1 Secondary School. They have a colourful blog (but it's all in Malay). Putrajaya is the administrative area of Malaysia and houses many of the government buildings including the Prime Minister’s residence. A picture here taken with some of the sixth form girls we met during our tour shows the residence in the background.

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Jay Cross

JULY 14, 2008

My table of five here at the Future of Media Summit at the Computer History Museum analyzed Yahoo! to try out Future Exploration Network’s Strategy Tools. We looked at Yahoo! past, present, and future along the dimensions of connecivity, interfaces, relationships, services, content, and standards. Yahoo! began as a recommender of links and became a portal which seemed to offer anything that moves.

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Mark Oehlert

JULY 16, 2008

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « SCORM and the Whole 2.0 Thing Again. | Main | Day 4 - Man.Im just getting warmed up! (and a shocker!) » July 16, 2008 Mobile 2.0 Tag Cloud Lovely work by Heike Scholz and found via Rudy De Waele. Goes great with the original 2.0 tag cloud by Markus Angermeier July 16, 2008 in Mobile Learning , Visualization | Permalink Technorati Tags : mobile , tag clouds , web 2.0 TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry

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eLearning Development

JULY 18, 2008

In writing my blog post earlier this week I saw a blurb in the WordPress control panel about Gears with a link to the WordPress blog. I like bike riding, so the word “gears&# got my attention and I followed the link. WordPress is now using Gears to speed up web site load times. What is Gears ? It’s a plug-in and API developed by Google that’s designed to speed up web site load times by caching content on your local computer.

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