Can't say enough good things about the resouces lodged in this site - you could spend all week looking through the place! Here are some examples....
Theories of Learning
Learning Resource and Development Center (LRDC)
Examples of Online Evaluation Forms
Spiral Development , Rapid Prototyping and Action Research
George Siemens has a great list of e-learning/edu-tech blogs up that I am currently working through- a good read...and its OK that I'm not on it...<sniff> <sniff> I'll be fine....
"Our aim is to provide a space for people to explore the theory and practice of informal
education and lifelong learning. In particular, we want to encourage educators to develop ways of working and being that foster association, conversation and relationship."
What a VERY cool site. I have just bee looking through this article on
"chris argyris: theories of action, double-loop learning and organizational learning" from their Encyclopedia.
Of course, no sooner do I start thinking about how cool I am for having found some nifty new thing, than Jay Cross is actually making use of it! Resolution #105 - Be more like Jay. Anyway, Jay is using Flickr to upload some of his cool photos, symbols and models (think workflow models not airplane models). I think this one hurts my brain the most....
Thursday September 23, 7:55 am ET
Leading learning provider selects TotalLMS, TotalLCMS and TotalDashboard as core components of learning solutions for enterprises and educational institutionsMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 2004-- SumTotal Systems (Nasdaq:SUMT - News), the industry's largest provider of learning and business performance technologies, services and processes, today announced that it has expanded its global presence into Korea with new partner COSMO iNET, that country's leading e-learning provider. COSMO iNET will resell SumTotal's award-winning technology as a core component of the learning solutions it provides to enterprises and educational institutions in this fast-growing market.
Two things:
Thing 1: I love it when I find a new blog that so clearly refutes all the naysayers who moan and lament about the dearth of anything good or worthwhile in the blogging world. Something that clearly indicates, in a 'hey look, there's a lighthouse through the fog kind of way', that blogging represents a new form not only of publishing but of discovering and of discussing. Not to heap too much responsibility on Dr. Nash here but her and her blog "E-Learning Queen" and of course her "band of instructionally designing cats" are clear points on a trend line that is certainly headed in the right direction - Welcome Dr. Nash.
Thing 2: Annotation is always a good thing. Like meta-data for the intellect. I have always wondered how best to depict and communicate useful annotations concerning the edu-blogs that I've found and follow. Susan does a good job here of taking a look at some of the best blogs to date. I wonder though, if feels like we need to start a Wikipedia entry on edu-bloggers so that we have a central place to collect all the glorious annotation of our edu-blogging universe.
A few weeks ago, I was whining about the challenge of doing both a blog and a newsletter (and sleeping and staying married, yadda yadda). So I got a reply from Scott Leslie, a wonderful guy who runs a wonderful blog, offering some insights into how to blend the two and those keep both going but maintain a lower workload. One great suggestion was to use Freelists to push out the newsletter - turns out that to link that directly to the output of my blog will take some doing, but I'm working on it.
Scott also said something that really got me thinking - to paraphrase it was something to the extent that a lot of what he was reading on both my blog and my newsletter were items that were covered elsewhere in the blogosphere. He clearly indicated that this was not an insult just really a comment on the nature of this environment. Scott was also dead-on, I have fallen into a pattern of checking the same sources for items and have been slack about adding new sources to my data bank. Part of this is a function of how much time I have to devote to this - I don't really have a lot of time to read a lot of crap so I tend to stick to people/blogs that I know are valuable on a highly consistent basis (like Scott's site and like Stephen Downes' site and like Anne Galloway's site and of course the multiple-edited BoingBoing).
So here is this challenge - find new sources and a constraint - use no new time to do that - enter NewsGator. NewsGator is the RSS aggregator that I use that runs inside of Outlook. My package includes the capability to add 2 keyword searches as RSS feeds and so I have added "e-learning" and game-based learning" to my personal blogroll. The experiment seems to be panning out - I am already finding things that may well have been found by others but which at least are new to me. I will of course continue to include those pieces found by the sites I have always relied on but, taking Scott's very gentle challenge, will also try to inject some new POV's into my coverage of learning and technology.
You can all thank Scott if I manage to find some useful items.
mark (aka Perry White)
Interesting talk by Jacques du Plessis drawing a comparison between how language uses basic objects, such as sounds and morphemes. Summary of his talk from ITI in Utah.
Forget about learning objects - think physical systems. What's the difference between blocks and geos - blocks rely on gravity, which creates limits in how you can join them. Consider meccano - youcan join them in more creative ways. Consider architecture - you can see cabling, etc. You have much more structure. Here's another physical system, DNA, with only four components, A,C,T and G.
Continue reading ""Granularity in Learning Objects With Analogies From Engineering and Language"" »
Monday, August 30 16:00:14
(BizWorld)
A new e-learning tool has been launched by the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) which aims to make trading on the exchange much easier to understand.
It is accessible, free of charge, from the website's home page in the "learn more about" section. The new tool includes sections on the securities markets , IPOs, dividends, preference shares and bonds.
It explains how investors interact with stockbrokers, the various types of investment portfolios, how the stock market is regulated and how companies are valued.
ISEQ director Brian Healy described the new tool as "jargon free" and "user friendly" and said it aims to "demystify the working of the Stock Exchange and the investment world in general".
September/October 2004
Volume 39, Number 5
New Tools for Back-to-School: Blogs, Swarms, Wikis, and Games
Features
Educational Blogging
Stephen Downes
The process of blogging—of reading online, engaging a community, and reflecting it online—is a process of bringing life into learning.
Going Nomadic:
Mobile Learning in Higher Education
Bryan Alexander
How are wireless, mobile technologies and their emergent trends, such as swarms, affecting the learning environment, pedagogy, and campus life?
Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not
Brian Lamb
The needs met by “wikis”—documents posted online for open editing by all—are simply not being satisfied by present IT strategies and tools.
Web Bonus!
InsurgenceEmergenceConvergence
Brian Lamb
This series of Web pages links to delightful and disturbing manifestations of educationally relevant new media.
Game-Based Learning:
How to Delight and Instruct in the 21st Century
Joel Foreman
To learn more about videogames in academe, the author spoke with five leading-edge thinkers in the field: James Paul Gee, J. C. Herz, Randy Hinrichs, Marc Prensky, and Ben Sawyer.
Departments
techwatch
Information Technology in the News
Leadership
Information Security: A Difficult Balance
Linwood H. Rose
E-Content
Data Quality: Should Universities Worry?
Thomas C. Redman
New Horizons
The Open Source Parade
Brad Wheeler
Whither Telecommunications Regulation?
E. Michael Staman
Viewpoints
Research Libraries’ Costs of Doing Business
(and Strategies for Avoiding Them)
Daniel Greenstein
Homepage
Watch What You Ask For
Mark Luker
