Moodle. Alternatives to Moodle. Cloud-based, Easy-to-Customize Learning Management Systems May Make More Sense for Your Organization Moodle has emerged as one of the most visible brands for creating and managing e-learning content online.
As one of the few packages built on open-source software, it also enjoys a certain cachet among the digerati. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition. Overview Authors Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning with additional material from the Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice, National Research Council Description This popular trade book, originally released in hardcover in the Spring of 1999, has been newly expanded to show how the theories and insights from the original book can translate into actions and practice, now making a real connection between classroom activities and learning behavior.
This paperback edition includes far-reaching suggestions for research that could increase the impact that classroom teaching has on actual learning. Like the original hardcover edition, this book offers exciting new research about the mind and the brain that provides answers to a number of compelling questions. Like the original hardcover edition, this book offers exciting new research about the mind and the brain that provides answers to a number of compelling questions. Topics include: Suggested Citation. Learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything.
Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything. Six Vintage-Inspired Animations on Critical Thinking. Concise Learning™ - Learning & Student Success Portal. Math Help for Parents And Their Kids. Concerns grow over children using tablet computers. Electronic tablets like the iPad are a revolutionary educational tool and are becoming part of childhood, but should be watched carefully so that overuse doesn't lead to learning or behavioral problems, experts say.
"It's a topic that really emerged in the last two years. You can't pull it from their hands," Warren Buckleitner, editor of Children's Technology Review, said this week at a New York panel titled "Baby Brains and Video Games. " According to a late 2011 survey of 2,200 parents and children in Britain and the United States, 15 percent of kids between three and eight had used their parents' iPad. Nine percent had their own iPad, while 20 percent had their own iPod. The same study, by the marketing agency Kids Industries, found 77 percent of parents believed that using tablets was beneficial for their children and the same number thought the gadgets helped develop creativity.
"Can they focus on a conversation, not look a screen for 30 minutes? " 'Tiger mothers' should tame parenting approach, expert says. The Eastern view of parenting, as defined by best-selling author and self-described "tiger mother" Amy Chua, is that children should be pushed to excel at all costs.
Parents needn't worry about their happiness, she argues, only their success. But now a Michigan State University scholar is refuting that theory. The Get More Out of Google Infographic Summarizes Online Research Tricks for Students. WebGL Bookcase. iPad tantrum: why kids are so glued to their gadgets. The Minerva Project wants to bring Harvard-level education online in 2014. Motivational Speakers - The INK Conference. 3 Social Learning Trends to Watch in 2012. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
According to the 2011 Training Industry Report from TrainingMag.com, total expenditures in training appear to be increasing. The amount spent on training jumped about 13% from 2010, including increases in overall training budgets and payroll, and spending on outside products and services. It’s anticipated that training will continue to be a major focus for organizations in the upcoming year, which makes sense: As our economy continues to move in a positive direction, consumers will demand better service. Free Online Course Materials.
Khan Academy. From kindergarten to calculus, Khan Academy is here to help.
Sharpen your skills with over 100,000 interactive exercises. Over 100,000 interactive exercises. You may have heard about our videos, but did you know that Khan Academy has fun interactive math exercises that cover skills ranging from counting to calculus, grade by grade? Every exercise has step-by-step hints, so your child can practice as much as needed. Created and peer-reviewed by a team of math educators, our exercises include full coverage of US Common Core and beyond, ranging from early math through calculus. Review student progress in real time. 11 Tech Factors That Changed Education in 2011. Michael Staton is the founder of Inigral, which develops social software for student recruitment and higher education retention.
Inigral recently brought on the first PRI as a venture investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and has been named one of the top 10 innovative companies in education by Fast Company. In 2011, entrepreneurs and startup activity sprouted up everywhere. Not coincidentally, the Bay Area, New York, Boston, Austin, Portland and every college town from Abilene to Gainesville is fostering young, eager minds. MIT Announces Platform for Free Online Courses. MIT is planning to launch an open platform for free online classes, complete with certification for those who demonstrate mastery of their topics.
The university announced "MITx" on Monday, though it doesn't plan to launch the experimental prototype version of the platform until Spring 2012. MIT already has a robust free online library of its course materials called OpenCourseWare (OCW). Learning online. Lingua - Liste de son pour l'entrainement à la prononciation. BJ Fogg's Behavior Model. Bloom’s Taxonomy and iPad Apps LearningToday shares with everyone two beautiful posters, that help us remember Bloom’s Taxonomy: the Blooming Butterfly and the Blooming Orange.
How do we connect the Bloom’s Taxonomy with the iPad? Following inDave Mileham and Kelly Tenkeley’s footsteps of assigning iPad apps to the different levels of the Bloom’s Taxonomy, I created the following table with apps that I have tested out and am recommending. (Click to see a larger version of the image) In order to make the cut, the app had to fulfill the criteria (from Wikipedia and according to the Blooming Orange’s verbs) set out for each level. Mind Mapping & Diagrams.