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The 10-Minute Guide To Bloom's Taxonomy. Bloom’s Taxonomy is one of the most cited theoretical constructions within education and e-learning.

The 10-Minute Guide To Bloom's Taxonomy

This is well earned since, after its first publication in 1956, the taxonomy has quickly become an important milestone within educational theory. However there are many professionals within the educational and e-learning fields that have only a vague idea of what the Taxonomy is all about, or that have only met the taxonomy (or some revisited version of these findings) for the Cognitive domain only, leaving the Affective and Psychomotor domains at the margins, if not completely out of the picture. The aim of this video is to provide a 10-minute overview of the Taxonomy for all the 3 domains: Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor. There is much more to explore about Bloom’s taxonomy, this video should be seen as the starting point for a journey into finding a way to organize learning objectives in a meaningful and useful way, by using the brilliant work of Bloom and his colleagues.

Grading Fairly Can Be Fairly Grating. How Big Data Is Taking Teachers Out of the Lecturing Business. When Arnecia Hawkins enrolled at Arizona State University last fall, she did not realize she was volunteering as a test subject in an experimental reinvention of American higher education.

How Big Data Is Taking Teachers Out of the Lecturing Business

Yet here she was, near the end of her spring semester, learning math from a machine. In a well-appointed computer lab in Tempe, on Arizona State's desert resort of a campus, she and a sophomore named Jessica were practicing calculating annuities. Through a software dashboard, they could click and scroll among videos, text, quizzes and practice problems at their own pace.

As they worked, their answers, along with reams of data on the ways in which they arrived at those answers, were beamed to distant servers. Predictive algorithms developed by a team of data scientists compared their stats with data gathered from tens of thousands of other students, looking for clues as to what Hawkins was learning, what she was struggling with, what she should learn next and how, exactly, she should learn it. iOS Dev Center. Steeple: Project Report. The Steeple Project officially finished on March 31st 2010 after 18 months work.

Steeple: Project Report

This section covers the final reporting elements to the project and acts as a project overview. Please follow the links in the menu to the left to read through the report's six sections. The original application for the project is also linked from the left. A printable version of this report is available as a PDF in our resources area. Executive Summary. A Primer In Heutagogy And Self-Directed Learning. The Difference Between Pedagogy, Andragogy, And Heutagogy by Terry Heick Jackie Gerstein’s passionate thinking about learning is some of my favorite to read. She is rarely pulled down by trend or fad, but is unquestionably progressive and forward-thinking in her approaches to learning and thinking about learning. Her and I also both share a passion: self-directed learning. (As does the original summarizer/author of the thinking embedded in table above, Lindy McKeown Orwin.) I’m embarrassingly interested in any kind of learning at all–formal or informal, self-directed or teacher-centered, authentic or academic.

Gerstein’s presentation, “Education 3.0 and the Pedagogy of Mobile Learning” uses the concept of mobile learning as a spearhead into a broader discussion of how people learn–different approaches, different domains, and different technologies. Related Posts. Sadly, These Are The Most Popular Things On The Internet. Kittens and bacon are taking over.

Sadly, These Are The Most Popular Things On The Internet

Quite literally. I was searching for awesome education infographics to share with you, and when I began my search using terms like ‘education’, a graphic about kittens and bacon came up. I’m not joking, guys. Even Google believes that kittens +bacon = education! But of course, I had to take a look at the handy infographic , and I found that it was actually pretty interesting, since it talks about what’s happening in The World Of The Internet. Yes, yes they do. Boyer Lectures 2010: The Republic of Learning - Boyer Lectures. The 51st Boyer Lectures will be presented by Professor Glyn Davis AC, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Melbourne, commencing on-air from 14 November 2010.

Boyer Lectures 2010: The Republic of Learning - Boyer Lectures

Each of the six Lectures in the series will be broadcast on ABC Radio National and be available online. Each year the ABC Board invites a prominent Australian or group of Australians to present six radio lectures expressing their thoughts on major social, cultural, scientific or political issues. Professor Davis's Boyer Lecture series, entitled The Republic of Learning: higher education transforms Australia, will include six lectures exploring Australia's higher education landscape, revealing an experience sharply at odds with traditional images of sleepy cloisters and ivory towers.

Professor Davis said, 'I am honoured to deliver the first Boyer lectures devoted to the place of higher education in Australian life. TAFES, colleges and universities offer a vibrant set of choices for students across the nation. Research in Learning Technology. Technology Outlook > Australian Tertiary Education 2012-2017. Presentation notes. Learning, Innovation and Society.