By Laura Devaney. With the advent of gamification as a legitimate tool for engagement, recruitment and enrollment, campuses are reimagining how their learning spaces reflect new instructional approaches. More...
31 mai 2016
31 mai 2016
5 considerations for a common LMS adoption
By Laura Devaney. New report explores experiences of online educational consortia that implemented a common learning management system. More...
31 mai 2016
A technology that’s thriving with rural students
By Andrew Barbour. With an emphasis on flexibility and convenience, an innovative Georgia program is giving rural students—often working adults—new opportunities to pursue the jobs skills needed in today’s economy. The initiative, known as BlendFlex, is the brainchild of Central Georgia Technical College, which received a four-year government grant in 2013 to test blended-learning techniques in its healthcare program across an 11-county swath of rural Georgia. More...
31 mai 2016
Oculus Riles Users Over Piracy Block That Fails Anyway
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Oculus Riles Users Over Piracy Block That Fails Anyway
David Jones, E-Commerce Times, 2016/05/26
Should games be hard-coded to run on specific hardware? Oculus is in a war against so-called hackers who are adapting their games to run on rival systems such as HTV Vive and Valve. More...
31 mai 2016
A Moodle Plug-in for Gamified, Individualized Learning
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Moodle Plug-in for Gamified, Individualized Learning
Leila Meyer, Campus Technology, 2016/05/26
Using a Moodle plugin, "instructors can turn their courses into a personalized game, where students complete course activities in the school's Moodle learning management system to gain skill points and advance their avatar through a series of objectives." More...
31 mai 2016
“Learning on the go”
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. “Learning on the go”
Contact North, 2016/05/26
This is a good but not especially imaginative article on what to expect from mobile learning in education. For example, what factors will impact the use of mobile technologies? Bandwidth, instructor use and proficiency, and student proficiency, we are told. Well - yeah. More...
31 mai 2016
Key Tensions in the Field of Learning Analytics
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Key Tensions in the Field of Learning Analytics
Bodong Chen, 2016/05/26
This is an interesting and useful post. Bodong Chen first distinguishes between learning analytics and academic analytics (the former being directly concerned with teaching and learning) and educational data mining (the latter being more focused on the exploration of data from academic settings). More...
31 mai 2016
A sense of wonder and discovery: in support of methodological pluralism
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A sense of wonder and discovery: in support of methodological pluralism
Keith Lyons, Clyde Street, 2016/05/25
Herodotus is a terrific read, so if you haven't yet, you should. It's also an interesting backdrop against which to frame this discussion of George Siemens's recent talk (and mammoth slide deck) on the fragmentation and reassembly of knowledge. More...
31 mai 2016
A very complex machine that’s doing nothing very special
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A very complex machine that’s doing nothing very special
slogger, Metafilter, 2016/05/25
This is a video of a machine that picks up randomly organized rocks and places them into very neat rows according to type and geological age. For all kinds of reasons (chief among them being sorting things into very need and organized rows) this machine really appeals to me. More...
31 mai 2016
Documents are the new Email
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Documents are the new Email
Stowe Boyd, Work Futures, 2016/05/23
The idea of this post is to point to the new role of documents as communications tools. Of course, they're always been communications tools, but only as attachments, or worse, printed paper. More...
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