Should We Be Using Learning Styles? What Research Has to Say to Practice
Seb Schmoller brings us two nice - and critical - reviews of learning styles. As the authors note, "There is... a strong intuitive appeal to the notion that we all have individual preferences and styles of learning." It is, indeed, an intuition I share. More...
A Special Request
My thanks to the many people who have sent me notes describing the impact of our work here at the NRC e-learning group. For those who missed the request sent out Sunday (that is, text, RSS and Javascript feed subscribers), there is still time to send me an email. More...
Librarians do E-Learning Metadata! A Report on the NSDL Vocabulary Workshop
Norm Friesen - who, I'm happy to say, remains at Athabasca University - passes along this conference summary from the recent NSDL Vocabulary Workshop. More...
Mobile E-learning, Policy development and ICT Teacher Training in Cambodia
Page pointing to three links related to this project. The most significant is the first link, which is a report on this project from the end of May, describing updates in Cambodian ICT policy, an e-learning bus touring the country, e-learning teacher training, and more. More...
Colleges Push Professors into Media Spotlight
You may have read in one of the many articles depicting the future of online learning the prediction that individual professors would become media stars. According to this report, this trend is beginning to emerge, with some professors fielding dozens of media interviews a week. More...
The Dynamic Approach to Learning
There isn't a whole lot that's revolutionary in this interview with Jonathon Levy, but his assessment of the field is consistent with mine: "The field is marked by a juxtaposition of new technology and old pedagogy." Consistent with his previous work, Levy proposes a dymanic workplace model of learning. More...
User Registration Need Not Be Inevitable
I have long complained about user registration in news sites - readers may have notice that (with the New York Times excepted) I do not link from OLDaily to sites that require user registration. More...
Colleges Reach out Via Instant Messaging
This would be a good starting point for a case study were somebody doing more in depth work in the use of instant messaging in e-learning (this article is itself pretty superficial). It describes how Boston University's admission counselors use instant messaging to field questions from prospective students about admissions procedures, college life or the status of their application. More...
Requirements for a CLO
To short for an article, too long for an OLDaily item, but worth keeping around - the Learning Circuit blog is a perfect place for things like these (and I need to keep remembering than I have access to it). Anyhow, I was asked today to list the attributes a CLO would need to have and to demonstrate to a hiring committee... here's what I came up with. By Stephen Downes, Learning Circuits Blog, June 25, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...
The Educational Semantic Web
The discussion areas for this online book, The Educational Semantic Web, are now online. More...
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