Month: October 2005
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Mark Sheppard’s blogs, Michael Bishop in Canada
I have been sitting by Mark Sheppard, who is the Senior Education officer for the Ontario Smart Systems for Health Agency. He maintains 2 different blogs: His personal blog: Mixed Moss from a Rolling Stone eLearning blog: Mark’s eLearning Space Small world, Mark actually has a family connection to my hometown of Manhattan, Kansas and…
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The Use of Blogs in Teaching, Knowledge Management, and Performance Improvement
The Use of Blogs in Teaching, Knowledge Management, and Performance Improvement an eLearn2005 presentation by Minjuan Wang, San Diego State University, USA Abstract: The number of web logs (‘blogs’), or online personal journals, is on the rise. While this trend may reflect a human propensity for self- indulgent introspection, it may also be propelled by…
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School accountability can’t be myopic
The article in last Friday’s Dallas Morning news, “We’re failing: Texas is losing teachers and students with its high-stakes tests” is politically slanted due to its source, but none-the-less right on target and worth reading. The author, Chris Bell, is a Democratic contender in the Texas gubernatorial race. This statement is 100% on target: But…
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Education and DL in Belgium
I just had a wonderful conversation with a man named Dirk from Belgium, who works for an adult education school there. I was fascinated to learn that by regulation, at least 50% of all the adult education hours in their programs are required to be face to face. Apparently this pedagogy is based on the…
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Strategies for Converging Learning and Work
Never Worry About Transfer Again: Strategies for Converging Learning and Work an eLearn2005 Wednesday keynote presentation by Allison Rosett, San Diego State University arossett@mail.sdsu.edu http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/ARossett/Arossett.html I want to talk about our work in a way that is a little bit different Transfer is everything (my belief) – also believe when you are doing a keynote…
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eLearn 2005 Presentation on Podcasting
I have made numerous modifications and additions to my paper presentation today, “Podcasting as Disruptive Transmediation,” that I am giving later this afternoon here in Vancouver at the eLearn 2005 World Conference on eLearning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education. Someone at the conference asked me to address IP (intellectual property) and podcasting, so…
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Stanford Embraces Podcasting
According to this article in today’s WebProNews, Stanford University is embracing podcasting. Visit the site “Stanford on iTunes” (http://itunes.stanford.edu) and link to (apparently) iTunes only feeds for: Heard on Campus Global Issues: Stanford Initiatives Music Faculty Lectures Sports Books and Authors Amy Bellinger is not willing to say educators have a professional obligation to embrace…
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Online for class chat in Vancouver
Had a nice chat with my Lubbock-based students tonight from Vancouver, I was able to adjust to the 2 hour time difference! I posted the transcript of our conversation as a PDF file within our Moodle class (you should be able to login as a guest to view it). One of the assignments we discussed…
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More from Jonathan Levy
Bonus session, demos from Jonathan on actual next-generation eLearning resources for CISCO eLearn2005 presentation Key idea for design: present as little information as possible, and then let the learner decide what else they need and want think of blended learning from being much-changed definition of today – not just some F2F, some online – this…
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The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be
The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be: Why The Next Generation of Online Learning Resets Everything to Zero! eLearn2005 presentation by Jonathan Levy, Senior Learning Strategiest for The Monitor Group (jlevy@monitor.com) http://www.jonathonlevy.com/ Jonathan authors numerous columns and is on the editorial board of Innovate magazine. If you want to ask, “what is happening?” Jonathan…