eLearn: Feature Article - An Interview with Jane Bozarth. 101 Facebook Apps for Students. Facebook Strategies For The Classroom. Facebook as LMS? Sarah Robbins posted on Ubernoggin today with the title Roll your own LMS with Facebook.
She says that rather than using a traditional LMS that students don’t use as often as they perhaps should, you can use Facebook as a “near perfect course management system,” with chat, file sharing, and “Courses.” It looks to me like the Courses feature was shut down recently but that other options are available through 3rd parties. (If I’m wrong on that, someone please correct me.) I’m still thinking about the questions raised at the Online Networking in Courses presentation I attended last week.
I asked Sarah how she thinks using Facebook would structure learning differently than how it would be structured in a traditional LMS. Here’s part of her answer: Personally, I think increasing social interactions in learning is never a bad thing so using a tool that makes social interaction so easy has to be a good thing. And, of course, she turned the question around to ask what I think. Free Subscription. Facebook – a platform for elearning 2.0 « people signals.
The first generation of elearning sucked.
Blinded by the flexibility of technology a lot of crappy courses were developed. The economics seemed irresistible – almost no delivery cost, endless scale, deep libraries and unmatched flexibility. The business case looked good. And so we were greed by great announcements from the HR department of a “new generation” of support for staff’s self-development.
Except – it didn’t really work. I think elearning 1.0 was too static. There was one great online-course I did. Here comes Facebook. 1. kick-off call – everyone was invited to an opening call with the goals and methods used. 2. lecture – provided with itunes U, it was an mp3 (or video) with about an hours worth of lecture 3. reflection – a hidden group in facebook with a new question posted every week on the lecture. 4. interaction – we had 2-3 days to respond to other posts 5. summary – the teacher read all posts and comments and did a video-summary. Great new learning. Like this: Like Loading... Can Facebook Provide an Education? The Top 5 Apps for the Intellectually-Inclined. Facebook might not be the ideal place to educate yourself compared to a college classroom, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t possible to fit in some time for cerebral stimulation between catching up on status updates.
There are a handful of great educational applications, ranging from the practical to the whimsical, that can help expand your intellectual horizons in your spare time. While they don’t all fit into the category of academia, these apps will definitely get your mind’s motor running. IQ Test on Facebook and IQ Test (Advanced Level) Why not start your quest for a more mentally active Facebook experience with a quick IQ test? These two applications are a fun way to gauge your logic and problem-solving skills, two factors of a high IQ. Philosophers + Philosophy Interested in brushing up on your philosophy? Language Exchange Looking for something a little more concrete than the sometimes abstract philosophies of the human condition?
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