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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

This is in reference the immense and rapidly expanding technology tools. April's Big Question from Learning Circuits is "How to Keep up?" It is tough to stay on top of all the emerging tools. However, being involved in an e-learning community is a big help. For me it is a blog community and following many experts on Twitter.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "MIT Researchers Advance Lecture Capture with Search Capabilities" (Campus Technology)

Mark Oehlert

How do these sound for capabilities: running video and audio of the lecture and a transcript of the lecture which scrolls with the lecture and underlines words in the lecture as theyre spoken. You can try it for yourself here. Are we really getting closer to a debate about the role/function/value of resident higher education experiences?

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "The iPhone dominates the smartphone market in mobile media consumption" (ZDNet)

Mark Oehlert

So for content developments sake, looking down the numbers, Id say there is an argument here for focusing on audio as a main component of phone-based content (Im going to quit saying mobile as a general term because who knows what that means anymore - PSP, iPod, cell phone, smartphone, iPhone, UMPC, or whatever).

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "Listening for Learning" (IT Conversations)

Mark Oehlert

Deep knowledge comes through reading, but audio, especially when you can ask questions, is usually the best way to learn about something new. " They actually have a poll up online asking the following: Is audio an effective way for you to learn? The question is formed as if all audio is the same. Turns out not so much.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Voice Coming to Second Life

Mark Oehlert

Up to 100 userscan be present in the same audio channel at once Scenario 2 - Group conference calls for two or more Residents. Thisenables Residents to communicate with large groups across geographicalboundaries (e.g. concert setting, or between pockets of land etc). Of course for some , itll just mean a quicker way to get bored.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Help Needed: Long Car Ride Ahead and I Want to Load Up on the Best Podcasts

Mark Oehlert

So post your suggestions in the comments, Ill grab and listen to as many as I can and then see about posting some post-road-trip reviews when I get back. Thanks for the help! The Lewin Links This link should take you to the page I have on del.icio.us where I am linking to all the Lewin stuff I find.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Heading Home from I/ITSEC 2007

Mark Oehlert

Now I cant gripe about the audio recordings because usually there is some value-add in that chain - some company has recorded the sessions and made them available, maybe cleaned them up a bit even but selling the papers? But thats OK because Im sure you all (all conferences that do this) share some of these revenues with the authors right?