I was at a conference this week and again heard a presenter state (as if it was a well-acknowledged fact) that people remember 10% of what they read, 20% of what they see, etc.. Well, bull. And here’s an explanation of where this false statistic (urban legend) came from.
http://www.willatworklearning.com/2006/10/people_remember.html
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A few running notes from the panel on the future of e-learning, here at the D2L user’s conference.
Note: Next time I should be ready to use CoverItLive or another live blogging tool.
Stephen Downes talks about open educational resources.
GNU license
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org
attribution, non-commercial, no-derivatives, share-alike.
David Wiley OPL
http://opencontent.org/openpub/
Providing access to OER:
1. Institutional repositories: OAI, Dspace, the D2L repository.
2. Online storage
Sustainability:
1. institutional mandate
2. government funding (NSF)
3. volunteer community
4. contracted (public/private partnership)
5. foundation support
6. corporate support
Concern:
using LMS to create a cash cow of learner content. Analogous to college textbooks. What I’d like to see:
LMSs openly sharing with each other.
Barry Dahl talks about how he hopes laggards (faculty new to online teaching) don’t screw up online learning for the early adopters. And he hopes Congress doesn’t mess up online learning with requirements about authenticating the user
Much more. I stopped typing and just listened. The “projecting the backchannel on the big screen” experiment, while very entertaining, distracted both audience and panelists.
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Sorry if I’m late to this party, but I just “discovered” this journal when browsing through the Directory of Open Access Journals. And the latest volume is all about personal learning environments (PLEs).
Personal learning environments
Today’s learning management systems can be perceived as islands – islands in the vast sea of learning possibilities the World Wide Web offers. Not only content can be obtained, refined and selected; learners can also adopt those tools which are important for their purposes, create their own and individual learning portals, tag content or register RSS feeds informing about news relevant to them.The keyword web 2.0 makes it possible: Moving away from standard learning management systems (“one for all” technique) to Personalised Learning Environments (“one for me” technique) consisting of snips, bits and pieces, collections of tools and services which are bundled to individual and/ or shared landscapes of knowledge, experiences and contacts. It is a shift from the island paradigm of the LMS technique to understanding the web as a door, a portal to learning opportunities.
Here’s a revealing account of one person’s experience taking an online university course, via eLearn Magazine:
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Next time you’re off to a pointless meeting, or team-building exercise, consider these delicious motivational t-shirts:
Here’s a nice beginner-level article from Yahoo News about why Gmail is an outstanding email service.
I haven’t posted much about the recent PIDT (Professors of Instructional Design and Technology) retreat in Memphis last month, but here are some photos to give you an idea about the beautiful campsite, and who was there. The website also has quite a bit from the retreat including live blogging, audio, session notes, contact lists, etc.
LETSI has issued a call for white papers on the upcoming SCORM 2.0 standard for interoperability among learning systems.
Flash For Learning :: SCORM 2.0: Call For White Papers
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This is a test post for the Firefox browser plugin ScribeFire. It allows one to post to one’s blog from within Firefox–and to easily include a link to a page you are reading. For example:
Getting started with ScribeFire - ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging
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