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Weekly Bookmarks (4/12/2010)

Experiencing eLearning

NCVER – E-learning in Australia and Korea: Learning from practice. Lengthy study from 2005 comparing how e-learning is used in Australia and Korea, finding some similar concerns. Like most other studies, this one has found that e-learning “cannnot on its own guarantee successful learning outcomes for students.

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Quotes and excerpts on the need for Learning 2.0 from the Best of T+D: 2007-2009

ID Reflections

In a flattened learning system, there are fewer experts and more fellow learners on paths that may cross. David Wilkins in Learning 2.0 Josh Bersin of Bersin and Associates said it well: “It’s not informal learning taking over everything; it’s a modernization of the learning function.”

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Online Learning Works – So Why are Schools Failing at it?

eLearning 24-7

Here is some data to consider (about this supposedly new learning approach). 1996, the first high school for online learning was established (Partnership between Hudson Public schools and Concord Consortium). An estimated 700,000 students (K-12) took at least one online course in 2005-2006 (Piccano and Seaman, 2007).

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195 posts about MOOCs

Jay Cross

PLE: connectivist or constructivist GEORGE SIEMENS | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2010. Four Reasons you need structure for informal learning DAWN OF LEARNING | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2010. Learning 2.0. I liked Daphne Koller’s talk on MOOCs , “ What we’re learning from online education.’ It resonated.