Learning with e's

AUGUST 24, 2012

This is number 4 in the series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future.' Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. More on this in future posts on this blog.

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Take an e-Learning Break

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Add blogs to courses, either completely open to the public where anyone can post, or moderated. Include content from external RSS feeds, either blogs or other services. Easily embed mashup widgets, such as YouTube videos, Google Charts, and others. Check it out: [link]

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

This is a continuation from yesterday''s blog post on changing times and the survival of higher education. Around 2007 we started using blogs to support several of our student teacher groups that were geographically dispersed across the South of England.

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eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

If they were doing it, Facebook like page, a crummy blog that looks nothing like a real blog, a Twitter like feed, maybe RSS, text chat and YouTube functions and upload/download angle. Vendors are adding more “comments&# and voting i.e. yes or no or thumbs up/thumbs down features. Social learning?

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

blogs and wikis), which better enable learning environments to support principles of social constructivism. collaborative tagging, social networking, mash-ups, and wikis), lightweight representation of semantics and metadata is used in the form of folksonomies, user comments, and ratings. Yet, students are also content creators.

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eLearning 24-7

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Open Source Product of the Year (i.e. Sure, other vendors will say you can do that too, but you have to open each object file to get it. iPod, mobile phones, YouTube, message boards, e-mail. Project blog, comments, & RSS feeds keeping authors connected. Blogs can be embedded into courses/content. Game Changer!

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eLearning Learning Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Open Source eLearning Tools , October 13, 2010 I was just asked about trends in open source for eLearning and particularly open source eLearning tools. In addition, she indicates if they are free or cost money – which is not quite the same thing as open source. Open up the Navigation. YouTube link.

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eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 31, 2010

When so many potential customers are seeing the advantages of open source, creating their own learning or VLE portals or seeing the value of various social media types and incorporating them into some type of social learning community, the “do nothing&# spin is well, a time warp into the past. Micro blogging feature.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 26, 2010

For example, if you build rapid elearning courses with Articulate products there are all sorts of resources available to you: Articulate’s Facebook page keeps you up-to-date on news and information. In addition, many of the Articulate folks have their own personal blogs that also offer interesting tidbits. Connect with us via Twitter.

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eLearning 24-7

JUNE 20, 2011

In my latest directory, 393 LMS vendors – global, of which 34 or so are open source systems. Folding up shop and switching to a new market: Talent/Performance Management, new product lines not tied to e-learning, services. Folding up shop for good – goodbye and nice knowing you. It was a myth.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 27, 2009

Process: October: open up to the advisory board. brainstorming: lots of wikis, blogs, social networking, audio/podcasts. Example: sending students out with cameras and sharing geotagged images, mashup images with Google Maps. Includes things that make publishing easy (YouTube, Flickr). “Horizon Game&#.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

We’re not talking about “dressing up&# content to fake that it’s engaging. YouTube – videos – short hits to educate. Mash this up with the chat and you practically have the whole session. This is the same stuff that many in the learning field are already picking up on. 30-90 seconds.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2008

I’m closing the chapter on 2008 and gearing up for 2009 and beyond. Marc Rosenberg, Allison Rossett, Barbara Pellow, and I led Up to Speed, an event in NYC for Mimeo. Opening presentation at CLO Symposium in Orlando. Community Tips for New Leaders (blog). Posted my first video mash-up to YouTube.

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