Aug
24
Online learning and Web 2.0
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The EdTech Posse has posted a podcast of a session they had Talking with Stephen Downes about online learning and Web 2.0. Among the snippets reported in the post: Web 2.0 explained by Stephen. Web 1 was(is) a medium that was consumed. Web 2.0 is a platform for developing applications. For instance, Gmail is a [...]
Aug
21
E-Learning: Channels, piracy, and outrage
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Clark Aldrich at The Learning Circuits Blog writes about how we might know when “formal e-learning hits the big time”. He suggests three signs to watch for. The first, channels, relates to e-learning being visible in ways such as having its own category at Amazon. The second, piracy, would occur if e-learning courses were seen [...]
Aug
21
Shared limitations of games and classrooms
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Clark Aldrich at The Learning Circuits Blog comments that Computer Games and Classrooms already share one limiting feature, namely that they are both self-referential. People, such as myself, are advocating a time when classrooms borrow more lessons from computer games. But they already share one, not-so-great similarity. They are both self-referential. Doing well within the [...]
Aug
18
The Portal is the Platform
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Michael Feldstein at e-Literate has produced a series of posts on the concept of a Learning Management Operating System. The core of his argument is that: the heart of an LMOS should be a portal. The main reason I have given so far is that a modern portal is well suited to handle the long [...]
Aug
15
From the Oops, my slip is showing department: Albert Ip over at Random Walk in E-Learning is not allowing comments and does not seem to have an email address for contact. That leaves no alternative but to comment here although I’d prefer to have been able to do this quietly. Albert has posted Is Multiple-Column [...]
Aug
11
Podcast Theory Gap
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E-Learning Queen writes about the Podcast Theory Gap: Online learners seem to prefer using audio and web-based information in ways that counter what researchers recommend. Although instructional designers do not often like to mention this, the fact is, it is the rare learner who will sit at a computer and willingly watch a 20 or [...]
Aug
10
That literature review really is important
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While I was looking for something else this evening I came across this article: Boote, D. N., & Beile, P. (2005). Scholars before researchers: On the centrality of the dissertation literature review in research preparation. Educational Researcher, 34(6), 3-15. It’s available online as PDF from the link above. This extract summarises its thrust: A thorough, [...]
Aug
9
Networked Learning Environment
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Blackboard has published a white paper on the Networked Learning Environment. The publication date is shown as October 2004 but I don’t recall seeing it or hearing of it previously. Perhaps that’s just my failing memory. The paper echoes ideas that are being heard elsewhere. The general flavour is indicated by this paragraph from the [...]
Aug
9
NESTA Futurelab has produced what seems to be a very useful review relevant to mLearning: Literature Review in Mobile Technologies and Learning The review covers current developments but also reaches back to make links to relevant literature from previous decades, giving it a solid grounding in educational theory. A substantial part of the review is [...]