Tag Archives: elearning

What I’m reading 24 May 2017 through 28 May 2017

A Flexible, Interoperable Digital Learning Platform: Are We There Yet? -e-Literate – Defining learning platforms.
> I believe incentives in the industry have changed enough that we could have a win-win scenario for all implementing parties.

Hmmm. Break into small groups. Discuss. – (lms elearning D2L wiki )
Education Technology as ‘The New Normal’ – Go Audrey. > Education needs to change, we have long been told. It is outmoded. Inefficient. And this “new normal” – in an economic sense much more than a pedagogical one – has meant schools have been tasked to “do more with less” and specifically to do more with new technologies which promise greater efficiency, carrying with them the values of business and markets rather than the values of democracy or democratic education. – (education )
Tools Index | Voyant Tools Documentation – Tools for corpus analysis – (tools linguistics )

MOOC pedagogy: the challenges of developing for Coursera | ALT Online Newsletter – Background piece from Edinburgh on designing their E-learning and Digital Cultures course for Coursera. More than that, however, they define some lines in the pedagogical sand: conservative MOOCs that mimic in-class practice v cMOOCs that experiment with education itself. – (coursera MOOC xMOOC elearning )
stephen Downes Educational Blogging (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu – it ain't about writing. it's about reading and engaging in community. – (blogging en3177 )

edtechpost – PLE Diagrams – A Collection of PLE diagrams
As preparation for a workshop I am giving this fall I thought it would be interesting to collect together all the diagrams of PLEs I could find, as a compare and contrast sort of exercise. – (ple visualization workspace workflow web2.0 elearning mindmap pln )
edtechpost – PLE Diagrams – A Collection of PLE diagrams
As preparation for a workshop I am giving this fall I thought it would be interesting to collect together all the diagrams of PLEs I could find, as a compare and contrast sort of exercise. – (ple visualization workspace workflow web2.0 elearning mindmap pln )
New evidence that bullet-points don’t work : Speaking about Presenting – well-known principles: give both visual and auditory channels something to do, and reinforce the message with both. "When a presenter uses bullet-point slides, they’re not using both pathways as effectively as they could. The audience member has to read the words on the slide and listen to the presenter at the same time, leading to overloading of the language areas whilst leaving the visual cortex with very little to do." – (ppt powerpoint visualdesign design educationaldesign )

How cell phones will replace learning – "I'm happy to be ignorant about something because the phone replaces the need to learn. I've outsourced the responsibility for that knowledge from my brain to my phone." Happy article on how mobile searching can develop towards natural language searches and agents. – (elearning ple iphone web3.0 )