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Saylor.org: Great Astronomy Resources (For the Educator, Student, or Adventurer)
We research all kinds of materials…only some of which end up in one of our courses. Many resources are too good to keep hidden, so we’ll be presenting them here every Friday. Today’s a 10-for-1 deal…enjoy! As our world grows smaller and even more globalized, many people have looked to the stars and space to [...]…
Saylor.org: See and be seen: student, educator, and staff profiles.
Watch this space next Thursday, February 14th*, for the very first installation in our new series of profiles. Each week, we’ll post a profile of one of our students, consultants, or staff, so that we can all get to know each other that much better. Student Profile – Students, site users, friends, community members…call them what [...]…
Learning Solutions Magazine: EMEA Reporter: Is Crowd Sourcing the Answer? by Nic Laycock
Finding and verifying information on the web to support eLearning development can be time- consuming. In large organizations, “push” methodology (the LMS) makes eLearning manageable for learners, but elsewhere, it’s a “pull” world, with no help. Is there a way around these difficulties? A start-up in the UK is exploring how crowd sourcing can improve things for developers and for learners.
Coursera: Five Courses Receive College Credit Recommendations
Coursera is committed to seeing that our courses meet our students’ educational goals, from simply experiencing the joy of learning something new, to seeking improved employment opportunities, to working towards a degree. To this end, we are proud to announce that the American Council on Education’s College Credit Recommendation Service (ACE CREDIT) has evaluated and recommended college credit for five courses on Coursera. Many students face enormous financial obstacles in pursuit of their degrees. We want to help more students enter college with credit already accrued and exit college on time, on budget and with a degree in hand. ACE CREDIT is a recognized authority in assessing non-traditional education experiences, with more than 2,000 colleges and universities considering ACE CREDIT recommendations in determining the applicability to their course and degree programs. The five courses approved for college credit recommendation include four undergraduate credit courses:…
: Connecting Online for Instruction & Learning
Presenting Online Presenting online is both exciting and rewarding. The presenter needs to have a caring attitude. CO13 was amazing. Feedback I enjoyed CO13 this year! The talks that I attended were great, having the opportunity to share thoughts and opinions with others.… Read the rest…
: Promoting Courses Online
Promoting Courses on WizIQ on CO13 I was able to promote myself and my work by presenting at the annual CO13 on WizIQ. Giving online classes and presenting at online conferences is a way to increase your online presence. Connecting online is important to an educator’s online teaching business.… Read the rest…
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Sometimes, less is more. Multiple variables can just be kind of…busy. If you’re into a simpler aesthetic, we’d like to suggest sticking to just one variable for the moment. You can leap on the trend (stay ahead of the curve!) with MA101: Single-Variable Calculus I on iTunes U. Four hundred years young, The Calculus was [...]…
: 21st Century Skills: Is the King Naked?
Marketing Skills Most would agree that marketing is key. Ratings rule in sports, entertainment, business, mass media, and in education. If a person, idea, program, or device is not marketed well, he, she, or it doesn’t exist. But, how many would claim that educators need marketing skills?… Read the rest…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Nuts and Bolts: Seeing the Forest by Jane Bozarth
Those who are closest to a situation can be the last to notice a problem when it exists. Experts can have trouble getting beyond their expertise to find a better solution. Here’s a way to solve the old instructional design paradox: When you can’t see the forest for the trees.
Udacity: Intro to Parallel Programming Promotion: Sponsored by NVIDIA and Amazon Web Services
We were really excited to launch our Intro to Parallel Programming course today! A big thanks to the instructors John Owens, David Luebke and Cheng-Han Lee who have dedicated their time to make this course a great learning experience! In addition to announcing the course launch, we wanted to let you know that Amazon Web Services and NVIDIA are sponsoring two promotions that students in Intro to Parallel Programing should be really excited about.Amazon Web Services is generously supporting students by providing up to 30 hours of credit for on-demand access access to GPU compute instances on Amazon EC2 to qualifying students. While not necessary to take the course, these instances will allow you to experiment further with parallel and distributed programming. To take advantage of this, you simply have to: Be one of the first 5,000 students to complete Unit 1, including the Unit 1 problem set Be one of the first 1,000 students to complete all units and problem sets throu…
Udacity: Udacity's Statistics Course to Offer Insights Into Online Learning
Last week we launched three classes in conjunction with San Jose State University; Visualizing Algebra, College Algebra, and Statistics. The 300 students that are a part of the pilot will earn college credit upon completion of the courses. Outside of the pilot, these courses are also open to anyone that wants to take them. Katie Kormanik, the Course Developer for the statistics class shares some insights from developing the class with SJSU professors, Sean Laraway and Ron Rogers. Here's Katie’s article on EdSource, where she talks about some of the advantages of learning statistics on an online platform. You may have heard of a new development in higher education: MOOCs, or massive open online courses, are challenging traditional notions of higher education. Allowing students to work at any time, any place, and any pace, MOOCs are free and are open to anyone. This is why they’re massive, often enrolling tens of thousands of students. This revolutionary medi…
OLI. Carnegie Mellon University: OLI Anatomy & Physiology Faculty Webinar
If you are teaching with the OLI Anatomy & Physiology course this semester, or are interested in doing so, please join us for a webinar to take place on Wednesday, February 20th at 3:00 pm. At that time, OLI will ……
Learning Solutions Magazine: The Challenge of Professional Development in 2013: Keeping Up by Bill Brandon
Change is the one feature of professional life that never changes, except to get faster. This is especially true for practitioners in eLearning, performance support, and talent management. How can you keep up with new delivery methods and systems, new learning and performance research information, and new development tools? Here are some ideas you can use.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Book Review: What the Plus?, by Guy Kawasaki by Bill Brandon
This is an outstanding tutorial for Google+, or G+ for short. If you are new to G+ and feeling overwhelmed, this is your guide. If you don’t know anything about G+, Kawasaki’s book will provide the basics. If you weren’t impressed with G+ when you tried it right after launch, Guy will give you an updated appreciation for what the service offers.
Udemy: How to record high quality video and audio with your smartphone
Shooting high quality video and audio doesn’t require spending a lot of money. You likely already carry something in your pocket everyday that can be used to create a Udemy course: an iPhone. Yes, that’s right: you can record high quality educational video with most iPhones made in the last 2-3 years. The major downsides of most iPhone (and other smartphone) footage tends to be that is has shaky video and poor audio quality (with a lot of residual noise).... Continue reading »…
Udemy: How to record video with your iPhone
Creating quality video and audio doesn’t require spending a lot of money on equipment. You likely already carry something in your pocket everyday that can be used to create a Udemy course: an iPhone. Yes, that’s right: you can record good quality educational video with most iPhones made in the last 2-3 years. In fact, the video quality got so good on the latest iPhones that it put the Flip camera out of business (but that’s another story). The problem... Continue reading »…
Udemy: How to record video with your iPhone
Creating quality video and audio doesn’t require spending a lot of money on equipment. You likely already carry something in your pocket everyday that can be used to create a Udemy course: an iPhone. Yes, that’s right: you can record good quality educational video with most iPhones made in the last 2-3 years. In fact, the video quality got so good on the latest iPhones that it put the Flip camera out of business (but that’s another story). The problem... Continue reading »…
ALISON: Early MOOC Takes A Different Path (InformationWeek.com)
With more than 1.2 million unique visitors per month and 250,000 graduates worldwide, Advance Learning Interactive Systems Online (ALISON), founded in 2007, is considered by some the first massive online open course (MOOC).
Udacity: The Past and Future of Game Development Education
This was originally posted by Colt McAnlis on his blog. Sharing some of his experience with game development and creating the HTML5 Game Development Class. With most things, when you get to the end of an adventure, you start thinking about the beginning, which for me, started waaaay before our upcoming UDACITY course on HTML5 Game Development. Education has always been an important portion of my career. Back in the early 90’s, when I started getting into game-development, education on the subject didn’t publicly exist; I had to teach myself what was needed through scraping together tutorials, Quake 1 / 2 source code, and hounding the gamedev.net forums. It was slow, painful, lonely, annoying work, and the results were often hit and miss. By the time I hit college my obsession had driven me from a novice to a self-educated semi-stable games-programmer, which caused nothing but grief for my CS professors (looking back, I greatly apologize to all of them ;)The constant…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Research for Practitioners: How Expert Designers Design by Angela van Barneveld
In many organizations, subject matter experts (SMEs) often receive assignments that involve developing training or learning materials, even though they may not understand the principles of instructional design. A team of investigators did some practical experiments and came up with ideas you can use to help your SMEs at least understand how instructional designers design.