Little Bird Tales List of eLearning Twitter Hashtags Social Learning Meredith Ely: Growing Education Marketplace Good News for Schools and Startups Earlier this year, I tried my luck at a TEDxSFED Speaker Search. TEDx is the well-reputed TED's local brand, and SFED is the education-specific group dedicated to bringing innovative ideas to education. My colleague, Rafael Corrales, and I were discussing education markets, comparative advantage and scalable business models when it became apparent that disruption in the education industry from "freemium" models is imminent. Freemium means free to premium. It's a business model that arose largely with web-based companies, and was articulated by Fred Wilson in 2006. With freemium, a company starts with a product. Then the company can begin to sell related premium services. Historically speaking, the education market has been slow to "get" market trends. With the education market so large and inefficient, disruption from freemium models is imminent. A notable example of market trends is Blackboard's recent move to shift its strategy with a freemium option.
The Complete Guide To Twitter Hashtags For Education What is a hashtag? A word or phrase preceded by a “#.” Twitter can be a busy place with lots of tweets–and thus lots of “noise.” A #hashtag is a way to aggregate tweets that are appended with a hashtag. Picture it like a magnet that attracts all messages categorized by that topical word or phrase. See also 50 Of The Best Education Accounts On Twitter Anyone. What else do I need to know? Don’t hashtag spam–if your tweet doesn’t add to that hashtag’s topic, discussion, or user base, don’t add the hashtag.Use more than one hashtag if it applies to more than one topic, but choose wisely. Meeting Times Many of the hashtags have “meeting times” where educators agree to “meet and tweet”–that is, send out messages on a topic at a certain time on a certain day. If you do participate at the agreed upon time, you’ll see the tweets stream in live and participate in said conversation (via twitter) in what is nearly real-time. Updated: Added #edcamp, #ukedchat, #whatisschool Trends General Content Areas iPad
15 Twitter Netiquette Rules You Must Know | Web Do's & Don'ts Want to write for WebD&D? We are looking for writers. Interested? Drop us an e-mail at hi (at) webdosanddonts.com. Written by Bojan on August 25, 2009. Whether you are familiar with Twitter or you are just starting to learn what a great networking tool it is, you must get to know how it really works to communicate well and make use of its potential. Here are 15 tips on how to tweet politely and avoid getting unfollowed. 1. Always include your name and a short bio in your Twitter profile. 2. Be social and interact. 3. There’s nothing wrong with the occasional self-plug, but don’t keep a Twitter account just to promote your work. 4. Auto direct messages are a big no-no, even if you are just being nice and saying hi to someone who has just started following you. 5. When you find a useful information somewhere, be it a tweet, a blog post or a picture you want to share, give credit by letting people know who it was that led you to your discovery. 6. Twitter is not an instant messenger. 7. 8.
How Much Narration in eLearning? Our Lessons Learned by Don Bair & Mike Dickinson "We wanted to know the preferences of our employees so we conducted a survey. They almost unanimously said that 1) they do not want the entire course to be narrated, 2) they do not want text on the screen read to them word for word, and 3) about two-thirds of the employees want to be able to turn the narration on or off. " How much audio narration should we use in our eLearning courses? These are questions our three-person, internal eLearning team recently asked ourselves. When our company first began using asynchronous eLearning about seven years ago, we used text and graphics only, no narration. Then about four years ago we received a mandate to develop a substantial amount of online compliance training. This was not an ideal learning method, and full narration presented other challenges. So recently we stepped back to examine how we wanted to use narration going forward. How much narration? We started by doing some informal research with industry cohorts and employees. [How much?]
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Higher Education Bubble Will Burst - The College Solution Are we stuck in a higher-ed bubble? Some college insiders are offering persuasive arguments that we are. Reminiscent of the recent stock market and real estate bubbles, escalating college prices are continuing to reach new heights. According to the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, average tuition in the past 2 ½ decades has risen by 440 percent, which is more than four times the rate of inflation. While higher-ed costs remain untethered to economic realities, students with college loans to pay off continue to graduate into abysmal job markets. Under the circumstances, it's easy to make the case that something has to give. Here are some of the reasons why higher-ed critics think that colleges and universities will soon be struggling with the type of threats that the steel, car, music, and publishing industries—to name a few—have faced. 1. [See the schools with the highest four-year graduation rates.] 2. [Get more information in U.S. 3. 4.
Evolving the E-Learning Experience for the 21st Century What always stuns me are vendors who state they know what their learners want, but in reality have no clue, because they themselves do not see the technology and its usage among the masses. A greater number of people, worldwide are using SaaS then ever before, mobile products, tablets – especially the iPad – is growing at a feverish pace, people are using online storage, beyond just placing photos and media, and open source is continuing expansion. Each one of these features could be implemented into systems in six months or less. Each one is available today on the Internet for free and these types of products are gaining mass in the global market. Your end users make up that mass, and a statement I hear often is that people aren’t staying in the systems to fully benefit from it. E-Mail The growing number of businesses leaving Microsoft Outlook to Internet e-mail is amazing. Online Storage i.e online hard drives The whole premise of this product began for two reasons Reality Virtual Desktops
From Classroom to Online, Think “Transform” not “Transfer” by Jane Bozarth “Find out which aspects of the classroom program are most successful ... and which aspects fail. Talk with learners and the classroom instructors, and review any evaluation or follow-up data they are able to provide.” Converting an existing classroom course to an online format can be a tricky, time-consuming undertaking. The easy way out — simply moving the content and lecture portions to an electronic means of delivery — is what leads to e“Learning” at its worst: slide after slide of bulleted information and loss of engaging activities and the contributions of individual instructors. What’s a better way to go? Look for ways to capture the richness that a good instructor brings to the classroom, such as responsiveness, a sense of humor, interesting stories and examples, and immediate feedback. Cut-n-chunk This is a good time to reexamine purpose, intent, and objectives. What’s working? Find out which aspects of the classroom program are most successful — and which aspects fail.
Pinning Down Cloud Computing Who’s Best Suited to Teach and Learn in Virtual Schools? By Sara Bernard, Mind/Shift Online learning is not easy, says Maureen Cottrell, a science teacher at iHigh Virtual Academy, a fully-accredited virtual public high school in San Diego, California. “Many students fully expect it to be easy and then bomb out.” Cottrell, who’s been teaching for a decade, has spent the last two years at iHigh, the first completely online, diploma-granting school in the San Diego Unified School District.
Communities of Practice: A Topology | PhD Blog (dot) Net This is the first post related to my participation in the forthcoming New Research Trajectories event, Contemporary Art of Walking. Curated by Alison Lloyd, it aims to explore wandering and journeying, mapping or the notion of getting lost as a practice / methodology through participant contributions, discussions and performances. Spatial and geographical metaphors are frequently employed in educational theory, particularly to describe domains of practice and knowledge. There is something instinctive about seeing how we orient our way through these domains as trajectories and pathways. For the purposes of the event, it’s not particularly important how effective these metaphors are per se, but rather, how usefully they may be understood by a non-specialist audience whilst exploring the landscape itself, and how they may create opportunities for participants to reflect and engage in discussion about their own practices. We may think leaving a CoP is difficult, but it needn’t be.