Learning - Educational Technologies

Latest News Archive June 2004

E-learning, workflow learning, just-in-time learning, virtual classrooms and the world of education at a distance. Educational technologies are the new frontier for ay instructional designer: Blogs, RSS, wikis, collaboration systems, e-learning tools, presentation software, simulation tools, real-time videoconferencing, online classrooms.

Quality Research, News, And Commentary On Education: Stephen Downes   Today I clicked on a story I was reading through my RSS newsreader posted by Stephen Downes. Unfortunately the click didn't take me through to the specific post but to his home page, which, thanks to RSS and the good old plain text newsletter he sends... Link | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies Robin Good Recommends -- June 24

How To Be A Successful Online Student   ... Link | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies Mark Evans - TechLearning -- June 7

Why Blogs Can Be Used To Create Memorable Learning Experiences   Maish Nichani outlines in easy to read short essay the quality of weblogs when utilized in training scenarios. He specifically points to three virtues of blogs: 1) personal point of view, 2) chronological nature and 3) byte-sized posts. "Together, these three attributes help create experiences that... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Maish Nichani - Australian Flexible Learning -- June 6

Why RSS Is Important For Educators: The Fuss   Among the now so many online resources devoted to RSS, I had not yet seen the excellent work carried out by Brian Lamb, Norman D'Arcy, Alan Levine and the many other people who have contributed to give a life to its own, to this clean and... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Robin Good Recommends -- June 6

Want To Save The World? Sign Up To Play   The Buckminster Fuller Institute and the Cal-(IT)2 Game Culture & Technology Lab at UC Irvine are in the initial conceptualization of a massively multi-player game whose goal is to save the world. The game takes a bottom-up approach through missions in which players deploy large numbers... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Celia Pearce - Planetwork -- June 5

Collaboration Technologies Empower The Enterprise   Jay Cross shares his original live presentation at the ASTD Conference. The presentation containing his original audio and all of the accompanying slides gives an extraordinary overview of just some of the critical issues relevant to effective collaboration inside the enterprise, while exemplifying in very simple... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Robin Good Recommends -- June 5

Brand Your Brilliance   "In the new world of work, you are a brand. And to stand out and prosper, you must leverage your experience, way of thinking, ideas, skills and braggables to create a perception that there is no one in the marketplace quite like you. I call... Link | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies Ramon Williamson - UGMC - [via Eric Wibisono - KULT] -- June 4

Zillman Mini-Video Tutorials Show Future Opportunities For Edutainment And Small Publishers   ... Link | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies Robin Good Recommends -- June 4

Communication Levels   "The greater the need to communicate our feelings, the harder it is to do. Indeed, sharing our opinions and emotions is risky business. We minimize the risk when we move through the levels of communication incrementally. That is, each conversation ought to begin with phatic communication... Link | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies Nan Peck, Northern Virginia Communication College - [via Mincius Sodas - Bala Pillai] -- June 3

Little Great Tools Smartly Matched: NMC 2004   Small Technologies Loosely Joined is a spin-off online event at the June 2004 NMC Summer Conference. The NMC is a one-of-a-kind event, attracting an audience of highly skilled campus professionals who are very knowledgeable about and interested in the integration of emerging technologies into teaching, learning,... Link | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies Robin Good Recommends -- June 2

Exploring e-Learning Myths   "e-Learning came to forefront for taking the traditional classroom training model and applying technology advancements to create new ways to learn. However, each advancement in e-Learning has also resulted in new obstacles. This continual struggle has helped spawn some popular e-Learning myths that deserve exploration. Understanding... read more | cat.: Learning - Educational Technologies | Link Kimberly M. Woodward - Learning and Training Innovations -- June 1

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