http://corcoles.net/lnt Just another WordPress weblog about e-ducation Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:18:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Great article by Tony Karrer on Learning Circuits: Understanding E-Learning 2.0, especially for, but not limited to, those who have not heard about the concept. I particularly liked his comparison of e-learning 1.0, 1.3 and 2.0. I can't help noting that he speaks mostly about learning in the corporate world. From ... http://corcoles.net/lnt/20070726/e-learning-20/ Some resources. Via. http://corcoles.net/lnt/20070603/teaching-digital-natives/ This time in the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) (free, requires registration, links are to abstracts): Diagnostic models of intelligent tutor system for teaching skills to solve algebraic equations Treating metadata as annotations: separating the content markup from the content A Digital Library of Language Learning Exercises Accessibility of Educational Multimedia: ... http://corcoles.net/lnt/20070518/and-more-things-i-should-be-reading/ Dialogue and the Construction of Knowledge in E-Learning: Exploring Students’Perceptions of Their Learning While Using Blackboard’s Asynchronous Discussion Board Social software: E-learning beyond learning management systems http://corcoles.net/lnt/20070518/more-things-i-should-be-reading/ I had heard about First Monday, peer-reviewed journal on the internet (it is, after all, home to such classics as The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond and The Attention Economy, by Michael H. Goldhaber, but after spending just a few minutes browsing this year's contents, the amount ... http://corcoles.net/lnt/20070509/first-monday/ Something to reflect on on today's New York times (and not really about the OLPC project): Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops. The students at Liverpool High have used their school-issued laptops to exchange answers on tests, download pornography and hack into local businesses. When the school tightened its network ... http://corcoles.net/lnt/20070504/one-laptor-per-child-or-not/ I just discovered (thank you!) the International Journal of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning. Among the many articles I should be reading: Learning Statistics in a Shared Virtual Campus. Summarizing a Five-Year Experience. Making Your Own Educational Materials For The Web. Making Your Own Materials, Part II: Multimedia Design for Learning. M-Learning – A ... http://corcoles.net/lnt/20070328/things-i-should-be-reading-2/ Amazing new service I found today: VideoLectures is "YouTube for lectures", and could become an AMAZING resource easily... To get a taste try, for example, Where the Social Web Meets the Semantic Web. Amazing. Now they're lacking an easy way to embed lectures in one's own homepage,à la YouTube... (and RSS feeds, ... http://corcoles.net/lnt/20070315/like-youtube-for-lectures/ Today I found a couple of very interesting texts by Clay Shirky... The first one is Ontology is Overrated — Categories, Links, and Tags, the second The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview. I should comment on them, but I have not been able to digest them yet, so go and ... http://corcoles.net/lnt/20070228/clay-shirky-ontologies-the-semantic-web-and-everything-else/ Whenever you do something in the classroom with a performance increase in mind, you should try to measure its effect. Measuring is hard. Measuring the effectiveness of teaching and learning is very hard. But please, don't you ever take seriously anyone claiming that something is working because grades have improved. Case ... http://corcoles.net/lnt/20070222/grade-inflation/