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20 novembre 2018

Poorer Students Sought

Poorer Students Sought
According to this article, colleges and universities are courting poorer students in order to be more accessible. But with statistics like these - "More than 80 percent of students from families earning more than $88,675 annually go to college, compared with less than 60 percent of those whose families earn less than $35,066, according to the College Board" - it's hard to believe. More...

20 novembre 2018

A Little Knowledge is A Dangerous Thing

A Little Knowledge is A Dangerous Thing
Carol Twigg tears into Bill Massy's and Bob Zemsky's recent Thwarted Innovation: What Happened to e-learning and Why, which concluded that e-learning was, overall, a failure. She doesn't like the methodology, she doesn't like the sample, she doesn't like the definitions. These criticisms are valid, but what Twigg doesn't do, unfortunately, is address the authors' conclusion. More...

20 novembre 2018

Doubts about OKI and Sakai

Doubts about OKI and Sakai
Michael Feldstein shares my concerns. "In our quest for technical standards of inter-operability, are we losing sight of loose coupling? Are we trying to over-engineer something that perhaps would work best through organic growth?" How many more stories like this are there out there. More...

20 novembre 2018

Informational Cascades in Online Learning

Informational Cascades in Online Learning
On TRDev the other day, after there occurred a brief discussion of 'groupthink', I posted a note about cascades. My post was not well written, I guess, because it had utterly no influence on the discussion. More...

20 novembre 2018

Educational Blogging

Educational Blogging
The September EDUCAUSE Review is out and features my article on the topic (as the title suggests) educational blogging. This is a longer article, looking at the nature and history of blogging, educational applications, tools and technologies, trends, and early experiences in educational blogging. More...

20 novembre 2018

E-Learning Queen

E-Learning Queen
Started five days ago, E-Learning Queen is a new blog, with three posts to its name. The first, a look at the ethics of video game-based simulation, is well worth a read. More...

20 novembre 2018

Sun, Microsoft Meet on SOAs

Sun, Microsoft Meet on SOAs
Coverage of the activities of the Redwood Group (of which there haven't been many so far), the group that "was spawned from an IMS Global Learning Consortium Inc. meeting held in late July in Redwood Shores." The article plays on the theme of a Microsoft-Sun rapproachment. More...

20 novembre 2018

The Presentation

The Presentation
Barbara (Bee) Dieu writes from Brazil: "Last Wednesday August 25th, I had the audio workshop on blogs for Cyberlangues on Alado (details posted in the previous message). Together with me in the computer room at the Lycée Pasteur in Sao Paulo, nine teachers and two students of mine, who came to give their testimonials on how they view blogging in the classroom." Many links on this page including some to some presentations. More...

20 novembre 2018

Game-Based Learning: How to Delight and Instruct in the 21st Century

Game-Based Learning: How to Delight and Instruct in the 21st Century
The author collected interviews from leading researchers in educational games, including Mark prensky and james Paul gee, to provide this overview look at new learning. After a discussion of the (ir)relevance of traditional classroom, the participants look at the learning benefits of games. Many good quotes. More...

20 novembre 2018

Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not

Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not
As promised last week, items from this month's EDUCAUSE Review. "Remember when the Internet was about opening up access to information and breaking down the barriers between content creators and content consumers?" asks Brian Lamb. Here's the answer: wikis. "The signature of a wiki is a link at the bottom of the page reading 'Edit text of this page' or something similar." What's important about wikis is that they change the traditional approach to publishing. More...

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