6 septembre 2018

Le Marque Page
This French language e-learning magazine is based in Turkey and seeks to speak to learners on four continents. Described in educa.ch (also in French): "The Marque Page is a webzine having the objective of publicizing classroom work and to support the exchange of information and linkages between francophones worldwide. The site, particularily rich, is animated by teachers of schools in Istanbul with the aid of l'Institut français." Forgive the rough translation; I'm still new at this. More...

RLOs: Education if Engineers Did It
While the concept of plug-and-play may work for hardware, suggests the author, reusability in e-learning may be more of a challenge because there is no such thing as context-free learning. More...

The Future of Learning Objects
Interesting short summary in which David Wiley summarizes the research interests of some well known practitioners and organizes the future of e-learning into a set of -abilities. More...

This is Your Brain on the Internet
The sense of this article is conveyed in a single sentence: "I could never go back to just f2f activities." It is hard today for experienced writers and developers to imagine life without the world's largest reserach library and collaborative network sitting at their fingertips. More...

E-Learning On The Fly
I don't agree necessarily with putting the learning on a hand-held - I mean, where's the need in a fast food restaurant, where there are plenty of locations for a fixed installation with a larger screen. More...

Partnerships of Indian and Western E-learning Producers: Cultural Issues
I enjoyed this discussion of the cultural difference between India and western nations and how they affect the development of e-learning products in those countries. "There’s little doubt that Indian e-learning organisations are building on the success of the sub-continent’s IT sector and are forming a powerful presence in the global e-learning industry," writes the author. More...

Mapping Pedagogy to Technology: A Simple Model
Via james Farmer comes this presentation that outlines major features of some theories of pedagogy, shifts them a bit, then maps them to technology (specifically, WebCT Vista). I think it's a good (though brief) presentation. More...

Email is Dead
Is this really the end or this this just yet another 'end of the internet' article? There is no denying that there is a problem. In my own email box, spam easily outnumbers useful email, and this is after filtering. Of course, it may just be that my email reader is broken - Outlook is, as I have commented on numerous occasions, the world's worst piece of software. According to this author RSS will replace email. More...

Building the Maricopa Learning eXchange(Using a Bit of Competition and Bribery)
It's no longer three dimensional (though it has nice pictures of the three dimensional original), but this web version of the Maricopa Learning eXchange poster delivered to the recent Merlot conference does something the original didn't really do: it explains all the parts of the Learning eXchange and lets me link to them. More...

A Full Stomach Leads to Better Learning, Schools Say
I think the headline says it all. Is there any reason, any reason at all, why a society that could afford it leaves its children unfed? I hear from all sides about morality in society. But before you begin to talk to me about the morality of this or that, let's begin with the basics. More...