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Check out various presentations and resources from the C2C SIDLIT conferences beginning in 2008, in this newly launched site out of JCCC in Overland Park, KS.
http://scholarspace.jccc.edu/topdownloads.html
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by Eruditio Loginquitas
17 July 2009
The simulation creator and author Clark Aldrich held a webinar recently titled “The Unifying View of Highly Interactive Virtual Environment (HIVE) Learning.” While I’d long looked forward to this presentation, I ended up with one of those mash-up days that allowed me to log on for the last 10 minutes of the presentation, and so I ended up experiencing this presentation as a re-run. Still, I found much that was thoughtful about his ideas.
(Truth to tell, I have ...
Continue reading Employing Highly Interactive Virtual Environments for "Learning to Do"
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The World Digital Library offers various resources from different times and locales around the globe. The contents may well be copyrighted because this resources is contributed to from a variety of copyright holders. The items are well labeled with metadata and tagging.
http://www.wdl.org/en/
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Here is an article about a course designed to address academic dishonesty.
http://jolt.merlot.org/currentissue.html
http://jolt.merlot.org/vol5no2/roberts_0609.pdf
Continue reading An Online Course for Students Addressing Academic Dishonesty
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A recent project has involved the use of the Quality Matters Rubric to ensure the quality of the e-learning through the curricular design. A trained QM-certified faculty member is spear-heading the critique. That said, the others of us without that training are still finding this rubric very helpful for aligning the elements of the course and ensuring that the basic elements are in place.
This rubric was funded through a FIPSE grant (from the US Department ...
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In a number of recent projects, there have been more focuses on geospatial information use. This comes in part from the popularization and free costs of a variety of geospatial and mapping tools. These are wide use by the public in practical ways. Tools like Mapquest, Google Maps, various real estate pricing sites, and various satellite image capture sites offer an easy low-cost way to access some of these functionalities.
It’s breathtaking to take a virtual ride from a ...
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Check out these engaging topics related to e-learning.
https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/event/schedule?etn=training;demo&eef=0
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The launch issue of EQ online is now live.
http://www.educause.edu/eq
This publication strives to use the multimedia Web space creatively. Check it out!
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A small team has been researching and mulling the idea of launching an e-learning faculty wiki for “the good of the order” and as a university contribution to the Web-enabled information spaces. The idea would be to use the wiki to surface implicit knowledge and also to create a professional community mediated through technologies.
The team diligently scoped out the competition through direct research and queries posted to professional listservs. They found quality wikis like Edutech ...
Continue reading Early Proposal of a New E-Learning Faculty Wiki
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Dr. Michael Wesch has offered a view of disruptive informational technos and their impacts on learning...
http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/knowledgable-knowledge-able
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by Eruditio Loginquitas
05 January 2009
Why do computer games need to evolve to keep people’s interests? How may AI enhance game playability?
For Darryl Charles, Colin Fyfe, Daniel Livingstone, and Stephen McGlinchey, who have teamed up for a new text that highlights biologically inspired AI for computer games, the answer is to create worthy game opponents. Games that adapt and learn are more challenging and therefore offer more learning and play value.
In Biologically Inspired Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games, these authors offer case ...
Continue reading Biologically Inspired AI for Computer Games (brief resource review)
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The literature on creativity offers some fine insights for instructional design. I don’t want to stretch these ideas too far, but there are some snippets below that may be applied in fresh ways.
The authors Kelly and Littman encourage designers to focus on real people with lived and felt needs. “To make better products and services, you’ve got to care about the person actually using it” (Kelly & Littman, 2001, p. 34). Another way of expressing this is for ...
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Readers who want a basic primer on how video games may promote learning may wish to give James Paul Gee’s Good Video Games + Good Learning a spin. With his folksy writing style and use of personal anecdotes, Gee’s work is highly accessible and non-threatening, and yet, it does offer some academic perspectives.
This author is a social linguist and professor who came to gaming in his 50s, through his son. It may be safe to assert that his ...
Continue reading Good Video Games + Good Learning (brief resource review)
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One of the librarians at this university showed me a clause linked to a major educational funding organization that required grant recipients to make their written papers from research findings available to other professionals in the field through a related educational repository < http://www.lib.k-state.edu/geninfo/scholcomm/nih.html >. This endeavor is part of a larger effort to capture informational value for the larger public apparently.
This clause is an interesting one to me because of the endeavor ...
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A month or so ago, I went ahead and zipped up course materials on Blackboard and downloaded that onto my desktop. Then I uploaded the zipped contents into a course shell in ANGEL Learning. And that was as far as I got in terms of transferring curricular contents en masse. I will admit to a great deal of skepticism that this particular organization should just ask faculty to move their own work even though I have instance manager privileges on ...
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The new issue of the Journal of Interactive Instruction Development has gone live. Check it out at the following URL:
http://www.salt.org/jiidtoc.asp?top=Yes
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Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
The new issue of JOLT (of MERLOT) has gone live for the first issue of 2009. Check it out.
http://jolt.merlot.org/
And
http://jolt.merlot.org/vol4no4/hai-jew_1208.htm
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It came as a bit of a shock to faculty at my university that there would be a foray into Second Life for educational purposes, social networking, and university service provision. There had been apparently long debates over concerns of what could happen in immersive 3D spaces in terms of griefers or other buses. And after some deep analysis, the advisory committee apparently was putting forward some solid recommendations along with hopes to maximize the use of this social virtual ...
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Dr. Michael Wesch always offers an engaging presentation, mixed with aptly used high tech, and there are always surprises—of the technological kind and absolutely of the human kind. In a recent standing-room only presentation at K-State, he spoke of the need to use technologies to help college students engage with learning. (“A Portal to New Media Literacy: Engaging New Technologies to Engage Students”)
He showed his digital ethnography dashboard http://www.netvibes.com/wesch#Digital_Ethnography To show his uses ...
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Clay Shirky’s “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations” shows how the affordances of Web 2.0 changes human potential. As a socio-technical system, Web 2.0 benefits through the power of networks—which grows in complexity “faster than its size.”
Connective technologies enable people to cover much more ground. Photo-sharing sites enable photographers to be virtually anywhere at any time…and to capture digital information that may not have apparent value enough for a company or ...
Continue reading "Here Comes Everybody" (Brief Resource Review)
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The rationale goes: Today’s generation is a visual one, so to get their ideas, it’s pretty critical to use imagery surveys…or surveys in which an integral component involves a visual or graphic or photo.
An interesting study used just such images to assess perceptions of the computing disciplne. They first vetted the images to see if they were assessed as positive, negative or neutral—as a way to test for content validity. Then the images were integrated ...
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The Journal of Interactive Instruction Development has released a new issue
http://www.salt.org/jiidtoc.asp?top=Yes
There's a piece on the application of the Cisco Systems RLO model used on a three-university project (including K-State) a couple years ago.
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It seems fitting that the first full-length text that I’ll be tackling on my desktop computer is Yochai Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks (2006), which he has made available for free off his own site at http://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks.pdf .
This work is about ways to strengthen human collaboration on a larger scale with computer-mediated communications and to shape policies that would strengthen virtual communities.
He explains how “non-market and nonproprietary production” of ...
Continue reading The Wealth of Networks (Brief Resource Review)
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“New technologies arise that permit or encourage new, richer forms of non-zero-sum interaction; then (for intelligible reasons grounded ultimately in human nature) social structures evolve that realize this rich potential—that convert non-zero-sum situations into positive sums. Thus does social complexity grow in scope and size.” -- Robert Wright in “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny” (as cited in Rheingold, 2003, p. 183)
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Howard Rheingold’s “Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution” offers a generally benign view of the potentially of ...
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In Clay Shirky’s “Here Comes Everybody” (2008), he talks about the competitive advantage that open source environments have as labs for creating and evolving new technologies. He suggests that for-profits run into the challenge of a “fitness landscape” that encourages settling for the first and easiest solution and discourages further exploration for more creative or elegant solutions.
“Cheap failure, valuable as it is on its own, is also a key part of a more complex advantage: the exploration of ...
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This resource may be helpful for those using images to create learning effects.
http://conference.merlot.org/2008/Sunday/hai-jew_s_track1aug10.ppt
This was presented at the MERLOT International Conference 2008 in Minneapolis, MN, at the Hilton Minneapolis on Marquette.
Continue reading Building Mental Models with Visuals for E-Learning
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by Eruditio Loginquitas
18 June 2008
Game Cultures By Jon Dovey and Helen W. Kennedy New York: Open University Press 2006 171 pp. hardcover
Many have suggested the use of digital games for educational purposes, whether these are games seconded for learning or games designed explicitly for learning.
J. Dovey and H.W. Kennedy’s Game Cultures takes an academically sound approach to analyze the role of games in meeting human needs.
Learning or “decoding” is a main computer game activity. “Playing requires this decoding of ...
Continue reading Understanding Game Cultures for E-Learning (Brief Resource Review)
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Check this out. This Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (of MERLOT) special issue focuses on next generation learning management systems.
http://jolt.merlot.org/guest_editors0608.htm (Guest Editor Colleen Carmean Intro)
http://jolt.merlot.org/currentissue.html (The Current Summer 2008 Issue)
https://wiki.asu.edu/jolt/index.php/Main_Page (The Response Wiki)
Continue reading New Special JOLT Issue with a Wiki Accompaniment
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Knowledge and Knowledge Systems: Learning from the Wonders of the Mind
By Eliezer Geisler
Hershey: IGI Publishing
2008
348 pp. hardcover
In this day of an explosion of information and the building of knowledge management systems, Eliezer Geisler (a professor of business at the Illinois Institute of Technology) has decided to get to the heart of the matter by probing exactly what knowledge is.
In Knowledge and Knowledge Systems: Learning from the Wonders of the Mind, Geisler explores the history ...
Continue reading Knowledge as Oobleck (Brief Resource Review)
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After quite a wait, the triptych teaching case study on Indian Gaming has finally gone live.
Native Gaming Case Studies
http://www.evergreen.edu/tribal/cases/caseSubject.asp?c=43 (May 2008)
Online Teaching Case Materials
http://www.evergreen.edu/tribal/cases/NativeGamingDocuments.asp (May 2008)
This is a multi-part case which uses slideshows, assignments, research ideas, and documents to create a more full-wrap experience.
A flashcard glossary of terms relates to the three main cases.
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by Eruditio Loginquitas
01 May 2008
On Feb. 11, 2008, Dr. Cable Green (Director of eLearning for the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges) hosted a virtual session for 42 faculty and administrators from around the US (with a cluster in Washington State) around “Developing a Culture of Sharing and Receiving: Open Educational Resources.” This used the Elluminate technology for the virtual participants and actually had a physical location, too, at the Bellingham Technical College.
This was billed as a ...
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The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching just released its Mar. 2008 issue (Vol. 4, No. 1). Please find the current issue at the link below.
http://jolt.merlot.org/currentissue.html
Check it out.
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The Learning-Education-Training Systems Interoperability (LETSI) group is now the center for the public SCORM development, outside the auspices of the US Department of Defense.
http://www.letsi.org/letsi/display/welcome/Home
It looks like they're still looking for more founding sponsors at a cost of $10K..to have a seat at the table in defining this organization. The deadline to join will be March 13.
Meanwhile, it's wait and "let's see" for the time being.
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With all the attention being paid to MIT Open Courseware and other universities (reportedly over a 100) joining the bandwagon of offering their online course materials online, I thought it would be worth a visit to the site "More than 100 universities worldwide, including Johns Hopkins, Tufts and Notre Dame, have joined MIT in a consortium of schools promoting their own open courseware," writes CBS News in "Mega-Universities for the New Millennium: Internet Makes Top Colleges Accessible to All" (Dec ...
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01 February 2008
BTC eLearning is delighted to host Dr. Cable Green presenting on Developing a Culture of Sharing and Receiving: Open Educational Resources. This presentation will be publicized throughout the system and externally, so please reserve your seat early.
When: February 11, 2008 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Where: Online via Elluminate /Broadcast at BTC Building G, Conference Room A How to Attend: Email jjones@btc.ctc.edu with the email addresses of those you would like to add to ...
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by Eruditio Loginquitas
30 January 2008
Games and Simulations in Online Learning Edited by David Gibson, Clark Aldrich and Marc Prensky Hershey: Information Science Publishing 2007 402 pp. hardcover
The three powerhouse editors of Games and Simulations in Online Learning -- David Gibson, Clark Aldrich and Marc Prensky - each have contributed to the field in their own ways.
Their editorial hands are clear in this text that addresses what's done effectively now, given pedagogical, cost and technology constraints.
The learning created through digital gaming and sims ...
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by Eruditio Loginquitas
05 January 2008
The Tools for Successful Online Teaching By Lisa Dawley Hershey: Information Science Publishing 2007 244 pp. hardcover
With every resource, it seems somewhat inevitable that the authors will draw on their own experiences. For some, they hide the personal tie-ins through objective research. For others, the firsthand experiences are drawn upon heavily. This latter approach in Dr. Lisa Dawley's The Tools for Successful Online Teaching is its main strength and weakness.
Faculty who like to learn from their own ...
Continue reading The Tools for Successful Online Teaching (Brief Resource Review)
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by Eruditio Loginquitas
12 December 2007
Gadgets, Games, and Gizmos for Learning By Karl M. Kapp San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons 2007 410 pp. hardcover
Is there a way to make learning fun? Is there a way to motivate people to learn on their own time? Is there a way to make knowledge transfer from the current employees to the up-and-coming generations? Is there a way to tap into the 90-million individuals in the "gamer" generation who will be inheriting the job positions in the present ...
Continue reading Games for learning transfer from boomers to gamers? (Brief Resource Review)
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The most recent issue of the Journal of Interactive Instruction Development has research articles on instructional system design, interface design, a standardized model of evaluation for e-learning programs and one on live personalization in F2F and e-learning.
http://www.salt.org/jiidtoc.asp?top=Yes
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by Eruditio Loginquitas
27 November 2007
Control and Constraint in e-Learning: Choosing when to Choose By Jon Dron Hershey: IDEA Group Publishing 2007 340 pp. hard cover
Professor Jon Dron's Control and Constraint in e-Learning proposes that existent e-learning technologies and shared online spaces may be built to be even more responsive to participants' insights and ideas. These spaces may empower learners to make informed decisions and choices at various junctures of the learning process, so learners may be more self-efficacious.
Dron builds his idea ...
Continue reading Designed Web 2.0 P2P Social Software Systems (Brief Resource Review)
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by Eruditio Loginquitas
17 October 2007
Paul Jones, creator of ibiblio.org and professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, spoke at K-State as part of the fall University Distinguished Lecture series. His presentation centered around the synergies made possible by various global and technological realities and culminate in part in ibiblio (formerly Metalab and then Sunsite) - which is an open and public archive of various types of information.
Jones has overseen ibiblio for the past 15 years,. This project's open source system hosts ...
Continue reading Paul Jones and ibiblio.org, "the public's library and digital archive"
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by Eruditio Loginquitas
27 September 2007
As part of a blog tour, Dr. Karl M. Kapp agreed to a Q&A. A future "brief resource review" will follow later this year.
Q: What are some strategies that you find are effective in reaching the so-called gamer generation?
A: Well, first I want to say that what we already know about good instructional design works with the software, gadgets and games of the gamer generation. You still teach facts with chunking, association and organization. You still teach ...
Continue reading Q & A with Dr. Karl M Kapp, "Gadgets, Games, and Gizmos for Learning"
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The presentations at the ID + SCORM 2007 conference at BYU have gone live. They are available here.
http://arclite.byu.edu/id+scorm/index.php?title=Presentations
Word is that the academic papers linked to these will follow shortly.
Continue reading Presentations from ID + SCORM 2007 Conference Live
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It's always good to know that umm the IRS is reaching out to its constituency with trainings. Chris Ammon and Amy Gareis presented on "Adapting IRS Classroom Training Content for Web-based Training" at the recent Interactive Technologies Conference in Virginia. Originally, this training was delivered in a F2F way by the customer education wing of the IRS at various locations around the country and reached several thousand participants. The objective of this was to train those who worked in ...
Continue reading Adapting Classroom Training for the Web...at the IRS
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Those who would immerse in persistent virtual worlds may well enjoy getting a glimpse of Neo's post-death view of The Matrix. Here, instead of the illusions of the space, he sees the substructure and the streams, and he sees the reality.
In the same way, economist Dr. Edward Castronova offers a synthetic world-building / image-breaking view in his text that may shake loose some of those images of digital gold pieces and wizards and virtual furniture.
With Synthetic Worlds , he ...
Continue reading Castronova's "Synthetic Worlds" (Brief Resource Review)
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Libraries often seem to get short shrift when it comes to eLearning. This point was illuminated in a presentation by Kristin Whitehair, a biomedical librarian, of the University of Kansas Medical Center at SIDLIT. Her presentation - "A Survey of Library Instruction for Distance Education Students" - showed numerous outreach efforts made by librarians to connect with their constituencies.
She showed how static websites, dynamic sites, tutorials, video tours, and course management systems are used by librarians to introduce their services and ...
Continue reading Libraries at the Point of Need for eLearning
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A couple weeks ago, I zipped up a fat file of digital materials that I'd been developing for well over half a year...used Yousendit (that godsend) to send the file...and almost danced a jig. If it weren't for the dancing cadet, I might have.
Anyway, in packaging this work, I found the need to review naming protocols on the digital files. I used folders to organize the contents...for slideshows....for graphics...and other elements. Flash ...
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The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) has a great issue just released on mobile learning.
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl
Here is also a (Canadian) journal that has managed to strive for true internationality... and a rich diversity of approaches to their topics.
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Fall 07 EDCI 786
COURSE DESCRIPTION: PRINCIPLES OF INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN:
Principles of Instructional Design Fall 2007 Online 8/23-12/14 Course Description:
This course addresses the fundamentals of the instructional design process. Learners will study a systematic approach to the design, development, and evaluation of instruction, focusing on pragmatic aspects of major theories and practices of design models.The course is project-based, with special attention to learning how to use Web 2.0 technologies to engage with each other and ...
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After years in the faculty ranks, I got used to having a rich variety of professional development opportunities. There would be seminars and workshops. There would be guest speakers. There would be conferences and symposia. There would be publication opportunities. And then I switched to instructional design with teaching online on the side. I'm noticing now that there's no real program for instructional designers here to develop their talents and skills. On the DEOS listserv, I read about ...
Continue reading Grab Bag of Professional Development Opportunities for IDs
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One carry-over between projects have been vocabulary lists. For one project, the vocabulary list was uploaded into a database and connected to various modules of learning. For a current project, the vocabulary list will be deployed as both a Web-table and Flash object flashcards. In another project, pop-ups with word definitions may be created as a rollover effect. Words matter a whole lot in online learning. Every academic field has its own verbiage and meanings tied to those words. Add ...
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14 May 2007
The Colleague-to-Colleague (C2C) conference SIDLIT (pronounced "sidelight") addressing various issues in distance learning and instructional technology will be held Aug. 2 - 3, 2007, at the Edwards Campus of the University of Kansas.
http://web.jccc.net/c2c/sidlit/
This collegial and low-key conference adds value to the work and refreshes the participants for a full year of instructional design and IT work.
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by Eruditio Loginquitas
10 May 2007
Software makers that reach out to instructional designers with trainings and engaging events improve my ability to do my job. One of the coordinators in our building sent me an email about a series of Webinars ("Innovators in Online Learning") hosted by SoftChalk Lesson Builder, LLC. Their software is used extensively in our office and puts out some very usable and engaging interactive elements in Flash and Javascript and HTML. The other day, I participated in a seminar presented by ...
Continue reading Webinar: Language Instruction and eLearning (Brief Resource Review)
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by Eruditio Loginquitas
08 May 2007
Michael Allen's Guide to e-Learning: Building Interactive, Fun, and Effective Learning Programs for Any Company by Michael W. Allen Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons 2003 $34.95 USsoft cover 328 pp.
Sometimes, a new approach takes plenty of sell before people buy into new practices. That's the sense a reader may get in reading Dr. Michael Allen's Guide to E-Learning.
The author's enthusiastic and intrusive voice gives a sense of a textual chatbot, but that conversational tone ...
Continue reading Edutainment: Michael Allen's Guide to E-Learning (Brief Resource Review)
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Models have a way of helping people conceptualize processes, among other things. Bates and Poole offer the "SECTIONS" model for instructional design that is helpful in the sense that it offers an instructional view as well as an administrator view (along with some technological savvy). The cost, novelty and speed concerns are more administrative ones, and technology undergirds this. Also, the consideration for swapping in materials is highly helpful.
S "Students: what is known about the students - or potential students ...
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Brent Anders (of the Office of Mediated Education) and M.E. Yeager (a doctoral candidate in the College of Ed at KSU) created the following video to publicize a forthcoming course offered by Dr. Fred Newton and Professor Art Rathbun. Andrea Mendoza (graphic artist with OME) created the snazzy logo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tucjbL1GdU
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The most current issue of the Journal of Interactive Instructional Development out of the Society for Applied Learning Technologies (SALT) includes an article by one of the instructional designers of OME. The site, which is password protected, may be accessed at the following URL. Getting access may require a micro-payment and /or membership.
http://www.salt.org/jiidtoc.asp?top=Yes
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Too often, various educators take a very defensive stance when it comes to using copyrighted works. They'd rather borrow the concept and a snippet or two of a copyrighted work and not risk any infringement. Yet, learning about fair use may help instructors better use the plentiful informational resources out there and keep them safe from intellectual property violations. A lack of understanding of one's rights will mean that fair use is not put to good use.
Faculty ...
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So Dr. Michael Wesch (assistant anthro prof at K-state) has caused a YouTube splash with his witty video. Worth a look. Even more electrifying live.
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/feb/13/professors_video_creates_sensation_youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
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Back in November (a full year ago...or rather a couple months), one of my blogs dealt with the issue of using free e-texts in lieu of textbooks (in a unique course design situation) and the internal debate about the pros and cons of that.
I thought of a colleague who told me once that she earned some $70 from selling the free book samples she got from book reps of various book companies that ...
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by Eruditio Loginquitas
14 December 2006
E-Learning and the Science of Instruction By Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard E. Mayer Pfeiffer, A Wiley Imprint 2003 322 pp. hardcover
Drs. Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard E. Mayer have created an elearning niche, that of multimedia design as guided by behaviorist and cognitive research.
For many, multimedia evokes splashy effects and the best that digital technology can offer. Yet, when multimedia is applied for learning purposes, a more learning-grounded approach is effective. Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard E ...
Continue reading Clark and Mayer: Multimedia Concepts (Brief Resource Review)
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by Eruditio Loginquitas
02 December 2006
Integrating Technology for Meaningful Learning (5th Ed.)* by Mark Grabe and Cindy Grabe New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 2007 431 pp. softcover
K-12 seems to be a less saturated market for elearning texts than higher ed. Mark and Cindy Grabes' Integrating Technology for Meaningful Learning , now in its 5th edition, offers applicable educational technology insights for K-12. These authors come across as technology evangelists and predict that K-12 itself may restructure around technology. As veterans in the education trenches, the ...
Continue reading Grabe and Grabe: High Tech for K-12 Learning (Brief Resource Review)
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For many years now, companies have been talking about delivering etexts for a small fee (micropayments). Whatever is in the public domain will be downloadable for free, and online epublishers will sell what they can by well-known authors (such as the ground-breaking Stephen King who let one of his books be serialized and sold purely as an e-text). For my mass media course, we would talk about the changing technologies that enabled easier reading of foldable light e-book-readers and the ...
Continue reading Free Etexts and the Academic Textbook Companies
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The Office of Mediated Education's LMS Axio (a.k.a. K-State Online) has a new branding site available at
www.axiolearning.org
Check it out.
A demo version of this software is available at
demo.axiolearning.org
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e-Moderating: The Key to Teaching & Learning Online by Gilly Salmon London: RoutledgeFalmer 2004/2005 2nd Ed. 242 pp. softcover
The role of an e-moderator comes in handy in large online classrooms with the star professor and teaching / research assistants. An e-moderator would be a mix of a coach, mediator and a digital friend who also has a knowledge base of the subject matter. Dr. Gilly Salmon's e-Moderating: The Key to Teaching & Learning Online involves observations she made as an ...
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Today marks the day that Axio Learning's first branding site has gone live! At this site are opportunities to meet others around the Midwest using this LMS...opportunities to demo and try this LMS...and designed experiences by many of the creative minds of OME. Check it out. http://www.axiolearning.org
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The Power of eLearning: The Essential Guide for Teaching in the Digital Age by Shirley Waterhouse Boston: Pearson Education 2005 262 pp. softcover
Dr. Shirley Waterhouse offers a practical and solid text on elearning that should win many over to this learning approach. From academia, she draws on sound principles: Chickering and Gamson's "Seven Principles...Undergraduate Education", Bloom's "Taxonomy of Intellectual Behaviors," and Gagne's "Nine Events of Instruction") and practices. From the business realm, she focuses on ...
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by Eruditio Loginquitas
05 July 2006
Managing E-Learning Strategies: Design, Delivery, Implementation and Evaluation By Badrul Khan 2005 426 pp. $69.95 soft cover Information Science Publishing
E-Learning QUICK Checklist By Badrul Khan 2005214 pp. $29.95 soft cover Information Science Publishing
Dr. Badrul Khan's textual resources offer a general look at eLearning through the lens of his 8-category model: "institutional, management, technological, pedagogical, ethical, interface design, resource support, and evaluation" aspects. These, he asserts, are "logically comprehensive and empirically the most useful dimensions for ...
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E-Learning Companion: A Student's Guide to Online Success by Ryan Watkins and Michael Corry The George Washington University Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 2005 188 pp. wirebound softcover
Dr. Ryan Watkins and Michael Corry's E-learning companion helps a modern young college learner segue into online learning. This text serves as a college study skills handbook with college tutorials and foundational insights on online learning. Taking a practical approach, these authors advise online learners to annotate readings to strengthen their ...
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Gail Tremblay's approach to teaching writing is very conducive to a learner-centered approach. I suspect her style has evolved from her being a considerate human being foremost and then an artist and a writer. Her generosity in agreeing to be one of my two SMEs on a course redesign (English Composition 1) and then inviting me to her home in Olympia, Washington, were both gestures of fine kindness.
The following then are some highlights from our half-day chat.
A ...
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Teaching Online: A Practical Guide (College Teaching Series) by Susan Ko and Steve Rossen Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 2004 339 pp. softcover
Even at this late date, there are many instructors who are approaching online learning. Maybe every generation will have its newcomers to an idea or a practice. Dr. Susan Ko and Steve Rossen's Teaching online suggests that DL may be a panacea for virtually everyone. This text seems to suggest that the process is mechanistic. If only ...
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Designing World-Class E-Learning: How IBM, GE, Harvard Business School, & Columbia University are Succeeding at e-Learning By Roger C. Schank, Ph.D. New York: McGraw-Hill $34.95 hardcover 2002
Using a folksy, anti-establishment tone, Roger C. Schank, Ph.D., offers real-world case studies of e-learning projects. Along the way, he drops some pretty famous names of corporations and higher education learning institutions. The pedagogical goals: true-to-life, cost-effective, relevant, and connected to learners. What follows are rich anecdotes from the e-learning design ...
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For fans of KSU Football Coach Ron Prince and Dr. Susan M. Scott, leadership professor, there's a course forthcoming this Fall 2006.
More information on this is available through the following URL.
http://www.dce.ksu.edu/leadership/
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Engaging the Online Learner: Activities and Resources for Creative Instruction by Rita-Marie Conrad and J. Ana Donaldson Jossey-Bass: A Wiley Imprint 2004 129 pp. softcover
Some people have the social skills to get groups of people to warm up and mingle, say, at a party. Drs. Rita-Marie Conrad and J. Ana Donaldson are just those sorts of people albeit in online eLearning spaces. In asynchronous courses, instructors need to build community, set up virtual teams and engage learners. Engaging the ...
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Creativity in Virtual Teams: Key Components for Success By Jill E. Nemiro The Collaborative Work Systems Series, Center for the Study of Work Teams 2004 San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons, Pfeiffer 314 pp. softcover
The Fifty Feet Rule of Collaboration "The probability of people communicating or collaborating more than once a week drops off dramatically if they are more than the width of a basketball court apart." - Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps (1997, p. 6) in Virtual Teams
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The videos on Is It Different? Online vs. Face-to-Face Instruction (Feb. 22, 2006) and Online Assessment and Student Learning Outcomes (Jan. 26, 2006) are ready.
To watch go to http://id.ome.ksu.edu/roundtable/
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The most recent issue of the Journal of Interactive Instruction Development has an article by one of the bloggers titled "Using Archives to Analyze Online Curricular Structures at a Community College." This discusses an instrument used to analyze 22 archived courses of some faculty at Shoreline Community College in Washington State and the interactivity that could be observed stemming from the "curricular structures" there. The course subject matters covered a range of freshman and sophomore courses--from the sciences, humanities, and ...
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Here's a fine compendium of scholarly resources, referred to me by one of my supervisors.
http://www.scholar.google.com
And I ran across a reference to the Dspace resources of MIT, which is built on open source as a digital repository of shared information.
http://www.dspace.org/
One of my favorites for whenever I'm working on a government project is Acronym Finder.
http://www.acronymfinder.com
There are bazilliions of resources online, but these are two ...
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At KSU's Office of Mediated Education website, there are links to various resources that may be helpful for IDs.
http://ome.ksu.edu/id/
Kansas State University's main page may be accessed at the following URL:
http://www.k-state.edu/
Feel free to check out these resources. You may also learn more about the three bloggers at the OME site.
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As I was clicking through the web pages of this years SXSW INTERACTIVE, suffering a touch of jealousy, I stumbled across what might be the next great thing on the web. By way of Amanda Congdon's vlog, I was introduced to allpeers, an up-and-coming, peer-to-peer application that runs through your Firefox browser. If the developers follow through with their claims, especially about not including any spyware or adware with their product, allpeers may finally make peer-to-peer networking accessible to ...
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A wonderful online teacher, colleague and friend, Ann Murray, sent me this fun link. Electronic Arts (EA) has divvied-upped its characters and animation from "The Sims" video game for Carnegie Mellon University to use with their Alice programming language. This is a HUGE contribution and ought to give lot more mileage to the learning experience for beginning programmers.
But that is not all EA has been up to. They are on the verge of releasing a wondrous product built on ...
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Instructional designers never quite get the chance to go into the in-depth assumptions of instructors regarding their curricular culture. We exist often to deal with assignment-level builds, and the theoretical seldom gets brought up. As a matter of fact, one of my interviewers for this present job said that he could count on one hand the times that he's had such discussions in his many years in his job as an ID.
So after his laughter quieted, I thought ...
Continue reading Joseph, et al.'s Six Cultures of Curriculum
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Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross's Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (2nd Edition), Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993) has survived all these years because of solid research methodology and usefulness. Their ideas apply to online applications.
These authors differentiate between the different types of information one may want to know about learners, and then they offer unique insights about the different types of measures. Their book is a must-have for an ID's library.