CourseArc

MARCH 1, 2017

As instructional designers create eLearning courses, they must perform a variety of jobs to deliver the final product, including (but not limited to): Project Management. Even if you’re a “star performer” who can do it all, the extensive scope of some projects coupled with pressing deadlines often requires additional assistance.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 22, 2011

Many schools and classrooms all over are investing in mobile devices and educators want to know how to use them effectively, the apps to consider and more. 30+ Places To Find Creative Commons Media. Find resources for getting started with and using QR codes in the classroom. Quick List Of iPad Resources For The Classroom.

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Mike Taylor

JANUARY 31, 2020

The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention. The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention. design] Sleek Bundle – free collection of illustrations for your next project. Nine Good Sources of Public Domain & Creative Commons Audio.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

These have their uses, but there is much more available in the assessment repertoire of effective teachers. by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 I recently worked as a visiting scholar at a university that trained nurses.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 1, 2018

In some cases they have been used as a substitute for older technologies such as chalkboards and projection screens. In short, one of the significant issues around the use of IWBs has been a lack of transfer of the tool into effective pedagogy. So, how can educators tap into the powerful affordances of the interactive whiteboard?

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

It is designed for developers, designers, content authors, project managers, people with disabilities, and others. Notes: These instructional materials are provided under a Creative Commons license and can be adapted to develop your own courses and resources for learning about accessibility, as long as you attribute the source.

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eFront

JUNE 17, 2011

You can insert midi files (very small size) into PowerPoint presentations for great music effects. Danosongs run by Dan O’Connor and has his creative commons free royalty free music for production site. FreeSFX is a UK based side where you can download free sound effects. Since, 2008 it has 1,503,345 downloads.

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Rapid eLearning

MARCH 22, 2016

Before we get started, here is a list of sites that offer free audio sound effects that I featured in a previous blog post. If it’s distracting or competes with cognitive processing it may make the course less effective. YouTube : free music for your projects that you can download. Free Audio: Background Music.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In a previous post entitled Learning spaces of the third kind I outlined a project to establish an experimental learning space. Yet with only a few exceptions, the Smart boards have been used as little more than projection screens and surfaces for writing on. Patently, interactive whiteboards can be used for so much more.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 3, 2014

This week I gave my first year education students a new project. They were given two days to complete the project, and the first day involved a 6 hour history walk around the city, where they were given opportunities to capture still and moving images and do some research. Plymouth has a rich heritage and is steeped in history.

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CommLab India

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Video footage can be added in a course for a “wow” effect (e.g. Videvo : This website offers 100% free HD stock footage and motion graphics, which can be downloaded and used in any project. Here, you can find more than 5 million clips, whatever you need for your project. . How do you create videos for your projects?

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Technology integration results in digital tools being embedded into learning, so that for example maker cultures emerge, or the classroom activities are flipped , supporting more effective pedagogies and improving student learning outcomes. Ultimately, technology should be integrated into education so that learning can be transformed.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 28, 2013

Change it again, and face the participants outwards instead, and what is the effect? This is the concept behind vision immersion, where 360 degree projection and surround sound provide enhanced sensory experience. Many feel as though they are actually in the play rather than simply observing it. Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 4, 2013

Several recent schools based projects have shown the value of active learning, through knowledge production using digital media. A similar effect is seen in the 100 Word Challenge , and in other similar school related blog projects. Before any of these tools can be used effectively however, two things need to happen.

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Learning with e's

MAY 6, 2019

Teachers who work with their students tend to be more effective than those who stand apart. When a musician plays live for an audience (and also to a lesser extent, when they are recording), they need to project their talents as a performance. 2) Performance is connection. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2019

Recent ad hoc crowd sourcing projects such as #Blimage have shown that people can learn from each other in a distributed manner, through simple ideas such as sharing images and blogging about them. A large proportion of younger learners are perpetually online, constantly using their smartphones as gateways into this world. Tapscott, D.

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TechSmith Camtasia

AUGUST 21, 2014

It’s catching on as a way to begin working more effectively with students and it can be a great goal to have in place as you begin exploring using video. Streamline group projects by having students create videos and then have a movie screening day rather than stand-and-deliver presentations. Student Video Projects.

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Learning with e's

MAY 2, 2019

There is good reason why futurists tend to project no more than three years into the future. They need to find resources quickly and effectively, so navigation of content must be quick and simple. No wonder video is considered by many teachers to be so effective. Teachers sometimes take their students out into the world.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

You may also witness other, underlying pedagogical models playing out, usually where students are asked to do some group work or find out for themselves through individual project work. that I was able to build a theoretical framework around the nurses video project. Unported License. Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.

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ATD Learning Technologies

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Augmented reality takes a view of a real environment and augments it with additional information or effects. What is Creative Commons? Creative Commons is a type of copyright license wherein the creator of the content still retains the rights but allows others to use it free of charge with certain stipulations.

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Learning with e's

MAY 24, 2012

The main objection against one iPad per child projects is that there is little evidence to show that the new devices actually improve learning gain. The schools counter this argument by saying that with projects in their infancy it does take time to set up research and gather data, interpret it and discover whether an affect is in evidence.

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Learning with e's

MAY 23, 2012

He says that it is too early in the project to report if the iPads have made a significant difference on achievement. You can read more about the Cedar School iPad project on Fraser's blog. Again, this project is at an early stage and time will tell whether there is a direct impact on the quality of learning. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Memes carry no specific rules, but in effect are adopted and shared around by the tribe as a means of perpetuating that culture. Emile Durkheim suggests it is easier for clan members to project their feelings of awe toward a totem than toward something that is as complex as the clan itself (Haralambos and Holborn, 1995).

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Learning with e's

MARCH 12, 2016

However, these are still used effectively by those who desire to access educational opportunities to which they would otherwise have no access. There is a great need for basic literacy education, and several mobile learning projects are beginning to address this. Unported License. Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

In a world where empires of the mind dictate which nations lead economically, socially, politically and culturally, failure to educate a population effectively is courting disaster. All across the Middle East, similar projects are also in evidence. In this respect, we all have a lot of work to do. Unported License.

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Performance Learning Productivity

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Effective Metrics for Learning and Development I wonder what Shaw would think if he saw the way learning and development is predominantly measured in organisations today. For example a study of 829 companies over 31 years showed diversity training had "no positive effects in the average workplace."

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

It was used to great effect as early as the 1960s so that children could learn how to programme floor robots known as Turtles. The connection between thinking and doing is exploited, and interacting with one''s environment to effect change can have a profound impact on young minds. Milgram Obedience to Authority 30. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 12, 2013

They write essays, projects and dissertations that will be read only by their tutor or marker. I did some early studies into the effects of this when I implemented a programme wide use of wikis in 2006. Over the three years of the Atlantis Project , 12 of my B.Ed I decided to take this concept a step further. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 6, 2014

One social anthropologist in particular might have had a great deal to say about the Facebook effect. This is also the region within which we adopt roles and present specific mannerisms, follow scripts and project a controlled appearance that may be further enhanced with props and costumes. For many, the drama of Facebook is very real.

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 15, 2012

It's a very effective method of scaring kids to death, and it's also a very efficient method with which Governments can gather data to indicate how well the cohort of students in each school has had their heads crammed full of useless facts. Exams tell us next to nothing about their creative abilities or their cognitive agility.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 24, 2014

For centuries, innovative teachers have been trying to find other more effective methods of pedagogy that can take the place of lecturing and instruction. Students create a self-directed project that encapsulates the principles or facts of the topic they are learning. This is not new of course. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Overhead projectors also dominated the classroom, and staff often asked our team to create colourful transparencies they could project onto screens. There was also a strange projection device called an epidiascope - where you could place solid objects on the glass plate and it would project an image of them onto the screen.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In order to develop key critical thinking skills, learners need to be able to argue effectively. When students are given projects to complete, blogs, videos, podcasts, they are expected to organise their ideas, form their argument and present them in seminar or digital format - and then they must defend them. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 10, 2012

These are very effective, but they are superficial compared to what comes next. They can use this information for projects, essays, blogs, podcasts. Photo by Rod Senna Things ain't what they used to be by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MAY 18, 2011

My reading of 'The Facebook Effect' recently has led me to believe that mavericks and anarchists - those who tend to bend the rules, or simply ignore them - are at the centre of many creative projects, and in some cases actually become the gamechangers. Next time, don't ask for permission. Just do it. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 13, 2017

Firstly, it will support collaborative learning in numerous ways, not least because students could use the board for the purposes of brainstorming ideas, organising their projects, mapping out alternative approaches to solving a problem, group mind mapping, and so on. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 8, 2012

Although some learner-content interaction can be observed, with the momentum now toward more discussion, project work and collaborative learning within the classroom, student-content interaction is more likely to occur outside the classroom, at home, at work, on journeys. Image by Alvaro Canivell References Hillman, D.C.A., Willis, D.J.

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