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Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities

a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc . Anyone may view or contribute: http://cnx.org/
http://elearningroadtrip.typepad.com/elearning_roadtrip/2011/04/and-another-thing-about-predictive-analytics.html Judging by some of the reactions I have been getting to my Data Change Everything blogpost last night, I would say I've touched a bit of a nerve. Good. Predictive analytics are not just used in for-profit universities. While institutions like the University of Phoenix and APUS are investing in analytics tools to help them improve services and customize the experience of learning online, forward thinking publicly funded institutions including Rio Salado College and the Colorado Community College System are doing the same kinds of things. Predictive analytics are also not just used with online learning (and, by the way, online learning is not the same thing as for profit education.)

...And Another Thing (about Predictive Analytics) - eLearning Roadtrip

Posted on 22. Mar, 2011 by karlkapp in definition , Design Looking through my old “Learning and Instruction:Theory into Practice” book by Margaret Gredler, written in 1997, I came across an interesting comparison of novice vs. expert thinking (page 188). Knowledge structures of experts represent phenomena in the domain in relation to higher-order principles. Additionally, knowledge is organized in the form of a problem schema that includes procedures for solving relevant problems. http://www.kaplaneduneering.com/kappnotes/index.php/2011/03/comparison-of-novice-and-expert/

Comparison of Novice and Expert And Why Games Can Help. | Kapp Notes

In any e-learning development company, storyboards and e-learning courses go through rounds of testing to ensure desired quality levels. You should find a lot of blog posts on e-learning testing. All these articles talk about the importance of usability testing, learnability testing for e-learning courses.

Instructional Design Review Checklists – Key to Quality E-learning | The Writers Gateway

http://blog.thewritersgateway.com/2010/07/22/instructional-design-review-checklists-key-to-quality-e-learning/
http://jaycross.posterous.com/learning-is-the-new-work Workplace learning serves one purpose: getting the work done. Work used to be simple. Tasks were mechanical.

Learning is the new work - Jay Cross's Learnstream

Assessing Informal Learning

http://tarunagoel.blogspot.com/2011/03/assessing-informal-learning.html For March the LCBQ is: How do you assess whether your informal learning, social learning, continuous learning, performance support initiatives have the desired impact or achieve the desired results? My response to the question – I think we should assess informal learning but I don't think I want to asses informal learning using the same set of parameters often used for formal learning. Need to assess To me, the objective of all learning (including formal and informal) is to achieve the 'desired' change in behaviour and performance. Therefore, I want to continue to assess performance to see if the ‘desired results’ have been achieved.

The Five Myths of Informal Learning - Chief Learning Officer, Solutions for Enterprise Productivity

There are misunderstandings about this critical approach. Informal learning is emerging as one of the most powerful disciplines in our industry. The tools and methodologies that have been developed over the past several years are changing the learning landscape in amazing ways. But there are a number of misunderstandings about this critical approach. http://clomedia.com/articles/view/the-five-myths-of-informal-learning/1
mobile learning

The Purpose of Education | Simbeck-Hampson Consultancy

I set out to discover the purpose of ‘education’ after hearing about the purposed campaign. After reviewing some quotes from influential scholars and some definitions on the web, a four-sided picture of education’s purpose came to mind. I began with the Wikipedia definition of education. Education in the largest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another. ~ Wikipedia http://simbeckhampson.com/2011/03/26/the-purpose-of-education-purposed/
Flickr:DaehyunPark To Will Richardson, the word “reform” is inadequate in describing what needs to happen in education. “Transformation” is more accurate, and for years, he’s been actively proselytizing the need for a complete restructuring of the public education system. http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/whats-the-new-narrative-in-the-education-revolution/

What’s the New Narrative in the Education Revolution? | MindShift

If we want our education system to adapt to the 21st century, we need to re-imagine the entire thing — not just build more of the same. So claim the thought leaders behind The Learning Society, a concept launched as part of Cisco Systems’ Global Education initiative at the 2010 Learning and Technology World Forum in London last year.

The Learning Society’s Global Ambitions | MindShift

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/02/the-learning-societys-global-ambitions/

How the Open Source Movement Has Changed Education: 10 Success Stories | OEDb

How would you like to study at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for free? It has been nearly six years since MIT first announced their MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) program. More recently, MIT announced that the OCW program, a free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners around the world, is online and will be completed by 2008 . The OCW provides open access to course materials for up to 1,550 MIT courses , representing 34 departments and all five MIT schools. The goal is to include materials from all MIT courses by next year. MIT provides just one of the 10 open source educational success stories detailed below.
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HippoCampus: Online Content In and Out of Class | MindShift

For students seeking study guides and educators needing specific content, here’s another robust online resource: HippoCampus , a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE), provides multimedia homework and study help to high school and community college students and instructors free of charge.
A school’s perimeters are no longer the only place students learn.

How Learning Environments Are Changing | MindShift

Despite what some detractors say, torrents have plenty of legitimate uses -- one of which is helping organizations distribute digital content at little or no cost. That's especially important for a non-profit like Khan Academy , which is why its partnership with BitTorrent Inc. makes perfect sense. Khan Academy is a provider of free, online educational videos. A wide range of subjects are covered, including physics, biology, trigonometry, calculus, and economics.

Khan Academy and BitTorrent partner to deliver P2P educational video

I always think of you & your students when I run across gems that seem to belong in your pocket. Good to hear when they do service. by dcoda Feb 20

I am taking notice of your industrious suggestions. Our college has Clickview that enables us to take a program from any free to air television channel (16) for our Library. Then we can distribute excerpts or all of the programs on the network and in classrooms. I was watching the Community Services people using American Idol on how to give feedback to performers. It was sooooo relevant. by pauljacobson Feb 13

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Train thinking & creativity

QR codes in education

e-JUMP 2.0 — e-Jump 2.0

That's something new for me, thanks! by dcoda Jan 25

Google Launches Global Online Science Fair [Video] | Fast Company

What a great project for Google. Loved the story about the kid and his windmills. When I lived in the bush, my water pump was powered by a giant rubber band made of bicycle inner-tubes attached to the branch of a tree. With the slightest breeze, the pump would work. by pauljacobson Jan 14

kollock.mov (video/quicktime Object)

Yup, it's all too dynamic now for anyone to get a grip on. by nukem777 Jan 12

Connectivism

Yep... I got bumped out of the ECU on eLearning. Will try some more. by pauljacobson Jan 20

Jump 2.0 has be uploaded to a server, we're working on that, it looks very good so far. by dcoda Jan 19

Elle - I can't find your Jump 2.0 so I've pearled my own called e-Jump 2.0 and included it in D'Coda's links. It's very interesting for my work - I followed the OECD studies into Lifelong Learning last decade; and of course, it passed right over the heads of Teachers in Schools. I hope this initiative has some relevance. by pauljacobson Jan 19

OK - Wing Suits to Jump 2.0...... by pauljacobson Jan 19

check out Jump 2.0 that I just added to my links tree by dcoda Jan 19

Thx, must be busy, this site is exploding. by nukem777 Jan 16

Hi Ted - Patrice is probably grappling with development even now. It's an emergent system - wonders can happen daily! by pauljacobson Jan 16

Yes, think comments and tags are the way to go by nukem777 Jan 16

Hi Guys - I've just searched on "curation" and more than 50 links were identified (including d'coda's links, Elle). I agree that a Google style capability would be impressive; but somehow (like the QWERTY keyboard) I like the slower pace of discovery while we get our heads around how to build structure and use Comments as proper annotations for Pearls rather than Twitter-fests. by pauljacobson Jan 16

Completely agree. Only way to make all of this curation dynamically usable is going to be tags and a search function. Ability to annontate the pearls and tag there, or tag when creating the pearls is crucial. Later it would be nice to be able to create branches which could act like folders or sub-folders simply for better organization. by nukem777 Jan 15

Granny Woman Ozark Herbs

I've only used it externally. I'm glad to hear it does that for you. So many people report that it's too mild. by dcoda Jan 31

That wild lettuce sap puts me to sleep! by pauljacobson Jan 31

Thanks for the suggestion, I've used them for that successfully, along with wild lettuce milky sap by dcoda Jan 30

Paul LaViolette

He's all yours, Elle. I'll check out these interesting characters eventually. Benjamin Aaron is another remarkable person who is floating around on Glass. As for next Tuesday, my astrological signs are very positive - I hope it's not the end of the world yet, even though we will have a wet and windy day in Perth WA. by pauljacobson Dec 19

Thanks, I don't have that one! by dcoda Dec 19

Hi dcoda - this one's for you. by pauljacobson Dec 18

Stigmergic systems - summary of theory

Good one Elle - if Stigmergy can offer a method of "herding the butterflies" I will certainly support this meme. Of course, we already live (as agents) in a complex adaptive system where emergence is spontaneous and continual. by pauljacobson Dec 22

This is another way of working with collaborative learning by dcoda Dec 21

Dear Elle - how is your teaching going? Our climate is calming and is now down to 32 centigrade: relief. I'm under a tight schedule to complete projects before the Easter vacation in two weeks. All the jokes about seeing bunnies around Christmas have come true. Time is unravelling fast. Have you got any spare Valerian root - I need a good sleep! by pauljacobson Mar 28

Things are certainly rough for so many folks, glad you're ok. Here we've just had the most snow since 1918, a lot of roads are closed, power keeps going off and on. When it all melts, flooding in our many streams & rivers. All that said, we're ok. One benefit of rural life is the habit of preparing! by dcoda Feb 11

Hi Elle how are you going. The other day 100 houses on the fringe of our city were destroyed by fire. All from the spark of an angle grinder! I went through the Zeehan bushfires back in the 80s when 40 homes were burnt one afternoon and it was traumatic. Now this happens when our kin on the East Coast are reeling from floods and cyclones. Nature is talking it all back. by pauljacobson Feb 10

Yes - a big blizzard! Saw a poor guy getting blown along the street on his feet. People really were misled by the Warming Planet number. Climate change is ice, water and fire one after another . . . and the overwhelming surge of bacteria that will scare the hell out of the survivors. by pauljacobson Feb 5

We're getting battered by a snowcane...not so bad where I am, but deep for Arkansas. Really glad you're in a safe part. Amazing that the hurricane didn't do more damage given its strength & size. by dcoda Feb 4

Hi Elle - I live on the West Coast in Perth. It's high Summer here; and poor North Queensland (where I grew up) is being battered by the biggest hurricane ever! by pauljacobson Feb 2

I guess the cyclone comes in tomorrow? Will it miss you? Looks huge. I wonder if the aboriginal season still apply, what do you think? by dcoda Jan 31

The Noongar aboriginal people of this location have six distinct seasons. They were: * Birak: Dry and hot. * Bunuru: Hottest part of the year, with sparse rainfall throughout. * Djeran: Cooler weather begins. Fishing continued and bulbs and seeds were collected for food. * Makuru: Cold fronts that have until now brushed the lower south-west coast begin to cross further north. This is usually the wettest part of the year. * Djilba: Often the coldest part of the year, with clear, cold nights and days, or warmer, rainy and windy periods. * Kambarang: A definite warming trend is accompanied by longer dry periods and fewer cold fronts crossing the coast. The height of the wildflower season. by pauljacobson Jan 31

Anticlimax is the word for today. Most of the wild weather is staying out to sea. Heat is a killer though: last year we had two days at 45 C and all the 100 year old fir trees in our suburb were killed stone dead. by pauljacobson Jan 31

I've been watching the drama in your area closely and praying for your welfare. Keep me posted! by dcoda Jan 30