Engaging hearts and minds Best Practice Guide

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Dec 092011
 

This Best Practice Guide has been put together by the UCISA (UK Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association) Academic Support Group to provide examples of good practice in engaging academics, and other staff, in the use of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL).

The guide contains ten case studies which look at a variety of methods for engaging academics such as:

  • setting up communities of practice
  • developing intensive training and support programmes
  • incorporating TEL into Postgraduate Certificate courses
  • encouraging academics to publish their research in TEL.

Each case study describes the activity and the approach taken, provides an evaluation of the activity and discusses future developments and transferability.

Free download from http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/publications/engaging.aspx

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Evidence-Based Principles for Multimedia Instruction

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Oct 232010
 

Claremont Graduate University has just added a recent talk by cognitive psychologist Dr. Rich Mayer of UC Santa Barbara on how multimedia software can be best used to promote learning.  This talk reviews a research program that has produced ten evidence-based principles for how to use both words and pictures to promote learning. Dr. Mayer focuses on the determination of both how people learn (i.e., the science of learning) and how to help people learn (i.e., the science of instruction).

The video is available for free on the Claremont site, and may be interesting to anyone working on the determination of the science of learning or the science of instruction:
http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/lap&CISOPTR=79&CISOBOX=1&REC=1

Claremont have archived several years’ worth of research talks, which are free and open to the public, and encourage anyone interested to browse, use them for classes, or share with advisees. Here’s a link to the full library:
http://www.cgu.edu/pages/4435.asp

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Jing – simple multimedia presentations

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Aug 302010
 

Jing is a screen capture technology that offers a quick and easy way to make multimedia presentations.

Combine an audio commentary with whatever is happening on your computer screen.

Jing outputs to the standard .swf (Flash) format and is available for free at http://www.techsmith.com/jing/

Jing Pro offering additional features is also available at low cost.

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bFree Blackboard content extractor

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Aug 302010
 

Here’s a useful tool for Blackboard users. bFree allows users to make an offline copy of Blackboard content, including discussion boards. Ideal for learners with limited Web access or keeping an archive of study materials after your course has finished.

bFree is available for free download by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the Creative Commons License.

See http://its2.unc.edu/tl/tli/bFree/index.html

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Free Open Course on Personal Learning Environments, Networks, and Knowledge

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Aug 192010
 
The concept of personalized learning has been made possible through the proliferation of the Internet. Personalized learning is defining the future of education. This free online course will allow participants to make their own personalized learning journey through the field. It seems too good to miss…
Personal Learning Environments, Networks, and Knowledge is a course sponsored and organized by the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI) at Athabasca University. Stephen Downes and Rita Kop from the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Learning and Collaborative technologies group, Dave Cormier from University of Prince Edward Island, and George Siemens from TEKRI are course facilitators.
The purpose of this course will be to clarify and substantiate, from the  context of this new research, the concepts of personal learning  environments and networks. Course facilitators and participants will analyze the research literature and evaluate it against their own experience with the intent of developing a comprehensive understanding of personal learning environments and networks.
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Personalized Learning – A New Educational Paradigm

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Aug 192010
 

One of the greatest promises offered by e-learning is its potential to offer a personalized learning experience to each individual learner.

In traditional learning education providers offer courses to which learners sign up. A course consists of a fixed syllabus, or list of things to be learned or objectives to be met. The learning is delivered by a particular instructor using a fixed method at scheduled places and times. That’s fine as far as it goes, and indeed many of us learned a great deal from traditional learning.

But the online world changes everything. No longer do instructors hold a monopoly on knowledge to be dispensed to the privileged at their discretion. We are now surrounded by knowledge and the challenge of learning has become that of seeking the guidance to follow a meaningful journey through the information jungle best suited to our needs and interests. Continue reading »

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EDUCAUSE

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Jul 202010
 

EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. EDUCAUSE helps those who lead, manage, and use information resources to shape strategic decisions at every level. A comprehensive range of resources and activities is available to all interested employees at EDUCAUSE member organizations, with special opportunities open to designated member representatives. Continue reading »

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Association for Educational Communications and Technology

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Jul 202010
 

The Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is a professional association of thousands of educators and others whose activities are directed toward improving instruction through technology. AECT members may be found in colleges and universities; in the Armed Forces and industry; in museums, libraries, and hospitals; in the many places where edu cational change is underway. AECT members carry out a wide range of responsibilities in the study, planning, application, and production of communications media for instruction.

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Society for Applied Learning Technology

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Jul 202010
 

Founded in 1972, membership in the Society for Applied Learning Technology® is oriented to professionals whose work requires knowledge and communication in the field of instructional technology. It is a professional society, designed for individual membership participation with classes of membership keyed to the interest and experience of the individual. The Society provides a means to enhance the knowledge and job performance of an individual by participating in Society sponsored meetings, and through receiving Society sponsored publications. It enables one to achieve knowledge for work in the field of applied learning technology by association with other professionals in conferences sponsored by the Society.

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ALT – the Association for Learning Technology

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Jul 202010
 

ALT – the Association for Learning Technology – is a professional and scholarly association which seeks to bring together all those with an interest in the use of learning technology. With over 200 organisations and over 700 individuals in membership, the Association:

  • represents and supports members, and provide services for them
  • facilitates collaboration between practitioners, researchers, and policy makers
  • spreads good practice in the use of learning technology
  • raises the profile of research in learning technology
  • supports the professionalisation of learning technologists
  • contributes to the development of policy
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