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Udacity: Words Into Works: Moving From Passive to Active Learning
Guest Post by Dale StephensAuthor Bio: Dale Stephens was homeschooled and then unschooled. Now he leads UnCollege.org. Perigee/Penguin recently published his first book: "Hacking your Education". What the naysayers of self-directed learning fail to understand is that an education in the 60’s was different than an education today. Today, it’s freer than it’s ever been, and the playing field has leveled, regardless of income. Right now, you have access to practically all of the world’s information – yet, the ramification of this very access still hasn’t grabbed the attention of the public domain yet. Sure, people are talking. But it’s not popular belief – college is still, in many people’s minds, the only way to trail blaze a path to success. Too often we fail to answer a student's question: ‘What am I learning this for?' Yet, let’s be honest: the question of why we are learning what we are learning is one that needs to be…
Udemy: Udemy and Jack Welch Kick Off Leadership in Action course today
Today at Udemy we are excited to announce a new partnership with Jack Welch as we launch a brand-new course in management training called Leadership in Action. The course, personally designed by Mr. Welch himself, is part of the Welch Way program in collaboration with the Jack Welch Management Institute and Strayer University. Welch Way is a new, flexible, and modular program designed for both corporations and individuals looking to learn new leadership skills especially for the workplace. The interactive... Continue reading »…
: 21st Century Skills: Conversation on WizIQ
21st Century Skills What skills do you think about when you think of the future? What role will formal schools have in preparing students for those skills? Are schools ever going to catch up or will schools stay behind? Education is important to everyone, yet, what can parents, students, teachers, administrators, and governments do?… Read the rest…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Nuts and Bolts: What Is
Does an eLearning production have to exemplify Hollywood-level production values and adhere to every criterion of good taste in order for people to learn from it? Maybe not. This month, Jane gets down to the heart of the matter—what it really takes for eLearning to be “good.”…
Udemy: 3 Surprising Lessons From Web Usability Testing
You probably know that user testing exists. Many companies big and small regularly put their potential website visitors in a room, ask them to perform a task on the site, and observe their behavior. In this post, I’d like to offer an intro to user testing and look at a few surprising usability findings that have helped companies like Dell, Palmers, and others to create a better user experience and increase sales in the process. Want to skip the intro... Continue reading »…
Saylor.org: Monday Morning Digest: Teamwork in Ed Tech.
Good Morning and happy Monday! As we move on into March, and the time of spring here at Saylor, we look at how some in the world of Ed. Tech. have decided to link arms and tackle the sometimes arduous tasks of educating students, the masses and themselves. People are working together to provide more [...]…
: 5 Creative Ideas for using Break-Out Rooms
Break Out of conformity, Unleash your Creativity, The walls are gone, Story-telling lives on!! What can you do with more than one room to teach in and why would you need it? If you think about collaborative learning or language games, you will soon get the bigger picture.… Read the rest…
Learning Solutions Magazine: The eLearning Guild Announces Additions to Program Development Team by News Editor
The eLearning Guild, the leading global community of practice for eLearning professionals, announced today that it has added several individuals to its program development team, including the hiring of David Kelly as program director for all Guild face-to-face events.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Once Again, Games Can and Do Teach! by Karl Kapp
In a recent article in Learning Solutions Magazine, “Why Games Don’t Teach,” Ruth Clark says it’s “not that games can’t teach, but that advocating games as a main or even frequent instructional strategy is misleading.” Karl Kapp disagrees and offers this counterpoint, including evidence from research showing that games are effective teachers.
Coursera: My Coursera Experience: Modern Poetry for a Physics Major
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of guest posts from Courserians, called “My Coursera Experience”. My name is Ines Cifuentes. I am 58 and living with Stage 4 breast cancer. One of the tough things about advanced cancer is how much it takes away. My days are long as I can no longer work. I took the Coursera course, “Modern and Contemporary American Poetry”, taught by Al Filreis of the University of Pennsylvania. I chose it because as a physics major in college I didn’t have time to take a poetry course. When I saw that we would be reading William Carlos Williams, one of my favorite poets, I signed up. I didn’t learn about Coursera until the course had already started so I began the third week in and tried to catch up. I never did; I am now signed up to take it again in September. I am very happy that I can do that. And they are adding Wallace Stevens! It was wonderful to be able to take a class on poetry taught by a fabulous tea…
: Open Education Week on WizIQ
Open Education Week Around the World Open Education Week (OEW) is for everyone around the world. It is not only limited to the United States. The message from Mr. Duncan may seem that it’s only about the US but open education and open education week is for anyone who wishes to learn about and share content freely.… Read the rest…
Udacity: Why Take Our Interactive 3D Graphics Course?
If you're looking for a good reason to take our Interactive 3D Graphics Course, then we've got a few. For starters, picture yourself drifting on the gentle waters of a calm, moonlit sea. Off to the left, a lighthouse flashes its circular warning over the waves. The moon sits low in the sky just to the right, its light splintering across the dark water as each swell passes. As you move your boat to the right, the moon slides quietly behind the clouds … now picture that that scene directly in your browser, integrated with 2D web page elements. Or, just take a look at it here. (psst, try this on Chrome or Firefox; it won’t work on Internet Explorer and might require a little set up for Safari. If this link or the ones below don’t work, then you might need to check your setup). And if that doesn’t get you excited about interactive 3D graphics, take a look at some more eye candy from across the intertubes, like: Giant morphing fireball Ramshackle…
Khan Academy: ka-implementations: Check out a cool new tool that
ka-implementations: Check out a cool new tool that’s great for teachers! Stephanie Chang, one of our software developers, created this exercise browser to help teachers easily see the different types of problems we have in each exercise. Watch the video above to see how to use the tool, or check it out yourself at www.khanacademy.org/r/exercise-browser. Watch out—the exercise browser is a bit buggy right now and works best in Chrome and Safari. But don’t worry, it will only get better with time.
Saylor.org: Educator Snapshot: Dr. Ittay Weiss
Hello Ittay, thank you for taking the time to let us and our readers get to know you! We’ll jump right in with our first question: What have you been up to with the Saylor Foundation? I started off doing some review work on the course MA241 and some fine tuning of the accompanying exam. This [...]…
Coursera: Bienvenidos A Las Nuevas Universidades de Latinoam
Two new universities joining Coursera are particularly exciting for two reasons: (1) they’re the first universities on Coursera located in Latin America, and (2) both universities will be offering select courses in Spanish! The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Tecnológico de Monterrey are extremely high-ranking and well-respected universities located in Mexico, and will be offering classes across a broad range of disciplines. Here’s some more information about the schools: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México was founded in 1551,and is the only university in Mexico with Nobel Prize laureates among its alumni. The institution’s primary purpose is to serve the country and humanity, train professionals useful to society, organize and conduct research (mainly on national problems and conditions) and spread cultural benefits. Tecnológico de Monterrey: Tecnol&…
Saylor.org: UnCollege
According to a recent interview in The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Tech Therapy, a few years ago, Dale Stephens was a just another typical first semester freshman at Hendrick College. And yet, as a former home-schooled student, Stephens felt that his life in a classroom was missing something stimulating. This lack of a spark caused him to [...]…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Tips for Using GoAnimate in eLearning by Gary Lipkowitz
Trainers and educators have long known that appropriate, well-made video can increase levels of engagement and retention in eLearning. Technology is providing us with a set of tools we can use to create more video without breaking the bank. Here are eight tips for using one such product, GoAnimate, in your eLearning.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Tips for Using GoAnimate in eLearning by Gary Lipkowitz
Trainers and educators have long known that appropriate, well-made video can increase levels of engagement and retention in eLearning. Technology is providing us with a set of tools we can use to create more video without breaking the bank. Here are eight tips for using one such product, GoAnimate, in your eLearning.
Saylor.org: Ensuring Public Access to Scientific Research
In May of last year, a petition was added to WhiteHouse.gov’s We the People site, requesting that the government of the United States “require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research.” Much research that receives federal funding (which is to say, citizens’ tax dollars) is not subject to any kind [...]…
Saylor.org: Whither the OER Newsletter?
We are pleased to announce that yesterday’s OER Newsletter will be the last. Why “pleased”? Well, because it really isn’t going anywhere; we’re just going to improve on it a little. First, a brief history: the OER Newsletter began its run in private circulation; we used it to tell our academic consultants about resources we had [...]…