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Microlearning: Fad or Fantastic?

Web Courseworks

Wikipedia ? The quality of a microlearning activity is in the eye of the beholder. If you are editing a recorded lecture the video should cover only one topic. Let’s agree on a general definition of microlearning. Microlearning deals with relatively small learning units and short-term learning activities.

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JULIE DIRKSEN – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

JULIE DIRKSEN: There are people with much more expertise in virtual classroom design, but one of my basic principles is that it should be a conversation with learners, and not a one-way lecture. LEARNNOVATORS: There are many out there who have been voicing their concerns on the poor quality of e-learning courses.

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Turn and face the strain

Learning with e's

At the pedagogical level – where we are concerned with how learning takes place – there are indicators that WEL and other technology enhanced approaches have the potential to transform the quality of learning. WEL provides a flexibility of pace and space that was previously unattainable.

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Beyond the Classroom

CLO Magazine

Early digital and distance learning merely transferred the traditional lecture to a visual medium. At the same time, the small group experience of the classroom competes with broadly defined communities such as Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn. Online conversations need the same attention to quality interaction.

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The Higher Educational Bubble Continues to Grow

Kapp Notes

The definition of an economic bubble is, according to Wikipedia , “trade in high volumes at prices that are considerably at variance with intrinsic values ”.(Another The educational model--put them in a classroom and lecture--is basically unchanged since the 1800s. But do cost and quality really equate, the answer is not really.

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Definition: Metaverse

Kapp Notes

According to wikipedia, a metaverse can be defined as follows: The Metaverse, a phrase coined by Neal Stephenson's science fiction novel Snow Crash (1992) constitutes Stephenson's vision of how a virtual reality-based Internet might evolve in the near future. Do we bring everyone together in a virtual classroom and lecture to them?

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Solve problems with screencasting

E-Learning Acupuncture

When they deliver the course in class, they spent the first 15-20 minutes of each lecture thoroughly going over solutions from previously assigned homework problems. In January 2005 I first wrote in this blog about a now famous screencast by John Udell on Wikipedia. It’s not a new concept – screen casting has been around for years.