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CourseSites: Designing with Quality in Mind
Currently our undergraduate program is working toward program level approval from Quality Matters (QM). QM is a national organization that provides external reviewing services based upon their eight standard rubric. (For more information on QM, please see their site: http://www.qmprogram.org/.) In … Continue reading →…
Learning Solutions Magazine: ADL Collaborating with AICC on the Experience API by News Editor
The Aviation Industry Computer-Based Training Committee (AICC) and the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative have agreed to collaborate to improve and solidify the Experience API (formerly referred to as “Tin Can”), ensuring its viability for the aviation industry and other communities served by AICC.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Intuition Unveils Revolutionary Knowledge Management Platform by News Editor
Intuition, a leading global knowledge solutions provider announced at DevLearn Conference & Expo the release of a new revolutionary knowledge management solution, Intuition Advantage.
Learning Solutions Magazine: DevLearn 2012 Enters the Record Books by Bill Brandon and Jennifer Neibert
The eLearning Guild's DevLearn Conference & Expo opened October 31 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This event has attracted a record number of professionals and exhibitors, and this spotlight gives a few of the highlights from the first day.
Learning Solutions Magazine: vTrainingTracker Launches at DevLearn: New Tin Can Learning Record Store by News Editor
vTrainingTracker is a Tin Can API-enabled Learning Record Store fully compatible with both the .90 and .95 versions of the Experience API (also known as Tin Can API). This SaaS (software as a service) offers new opportunities to track, report, and reward learners.
Khan Academy: DC motors
Karl Wendt looks into how DC motors work and shows you how you can build your own. He also demonstrates the motor controller he used in building Bit-zee bot. Brushed DC motor explained Build your own motor Compare the hair dryer motor to the one you can build. And here are videos about the motor controller for Bit-zee bot: Build a motor controller for your Bit-zee bot Why does Bit-zee need a motor controller?
Khan Academy: Trolls, kings, and solving systems of equations
Sal has created new algebra videos to explain solving systems of equations: Trolls, Tolls, and Systems of Equations Then check out the follow-up videos on Solving the Troll Riddle Visually and Solving Systems Graphically. Elimination The King’s planning a party and needs your help figuring out how many cupcakes to order. King’s Cupcakes: Solving Systems by Elimination This video leads into the first exercise on elimination, which has a new guide video: Simple Elimination Practice. Then, the King needs more party planning help in managing The Potato Chip Issue: How many bags of potato chips do people eat? This leads into the next exercise on elimination, which also has a new companion video. Substitution Next, a little bird visits the King to teach him a new solving method: substitution. Talking bird solves systems with substitution The exercise using substitution has a new companion video. Solutions to Systems Sal then investigates spec…
Udacity: Teaching Thousands of Students to Program on Udacity with App Engine, Part Two
Cross-posted with the Google App Engine blog:This post is part two of a two-part series on how Udacity is using App Engine to teach thousands of students how to program online.Today’s guest blogger is Chris Chew, senior software engineer at Udacity, which offers free online courses in programming and other subjects. Chris shares how Udacity itself is built using App Engine.Steve Huffman blogged yesterday about how App Engine enables the project-based learning that makes his web development course so powerful. People are often surprised to learn that Udacity itself is built on App Engine.The choice to use App Engine originally came from Mike Sokolsky, our CTO and cofounder, after his experience keeping the original version of our extremely popular AI course running on a series of virtual machines. Mike found App Engine’s operational simplicity extremely compelling after weeks of endlessly spinning up additional servers and administering MySQL replication in…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Float Mobile Learning Introduces Tappestry for Organizations and Events by News Editor
Float Mobile Learning, the leader in developing custom mobile learning applications and mobile learning strategy, introduced new features for Tappestry today at DevLearn that will allow business professionals to capture and share learning and productivity data in a controlled and secure environment.
Learning Solutions Magazine: vTrainingRoom Launches Cloud-Based LMS with Tin Can Integration by News Editor
At DevLearn Conference & Expo 2012 in Las Vegas, vTrainingRoom today announced the release of ScholarLMS, the first-of-its-kind Tin Can API-enabled learning management system.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Skill Pill M-Learning and Prentice Hall/Pearson launch The Mobile MBA at DevLearn 2012 by News Editor
At DevLearn 2012, Skill Pill M-Learning is launching The Mobile MBA, a learning resource package consisting of a book, mobile videos, and tools to help boost business performance.
Learning Solutions Magazine: CERTPOINT Systems Presents at DevLearn 2012 by News Editor
CERTPOINT Systems explores the latest trends in technologies for training and development at The eLearning Guild’s DevLearn Conference & Expo 2012 in Las Vegas.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Chetu Shows HTML5 Prototypes for Mobile Content Delivery by News Editor
eLearning provider Chetu announces prototypes at DevLearn 2012 for adaptive rendering on mobile devices.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Piron Corp. Presents FlexiGuru eLearning Platform at DevLearn 2012 by News Editor
Piron’s Ankur Aggarwal, CEO and founder, and Myles Fuchs, chief revenue officer, will share their thoughts on the latest trends in eLearning and corporate training technologies and how to deliver successful business impact across the enterprise. The Piron team will also demonstrate the new, innovative FlexiGuru eLearning platform.
Learning Solutions Magazine: dominKnow Unveils New Features in Claro at DevLearn 2012 by News Editor
Two years after announcing the beta release of Claro at DevLearn 2010, dominKnow is rolling out new features in the award-winning HTML5-compliant authoring tool during this year’s conference.
Learning Solutions Magazine: SkyPrep.com Introduces Affordable User-Friendly SaaS-based LMS at DevLearn by News Editor
Following a six-month beta period, the official release of SkyPrep incorporates the feedback of hundreds of users and provides one of the most effective training tools in the market.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Adobe Presents Adobe Software Assurance at DevLearn 2012 by News Editor
Adobe will present its just-launched Adobe Software Assurance (ASA) at The eLearning Guild’s DevLearn Conference and Expo 2012. ASA ensures that you are always using the latest Adobe technology without straining your software budget or administrative resources for your covered Adobe Software.
Khan Academy: Next EDU Guru program - thank you!
We partnered with YouTube EDU to find great content creators via the Next EDU Guru program last month. There were hundreds of entries, and we thank everyone who participated — it was fabulous to see all the great ideas out there and the enthusiasm that so many of you had in sharing great educational content. As part of the Next EDU Guru program, we are proud to announce that we will award the Khan Academy Prize of $1000 to MathApptician, who makes great videos in linear algebra. His real name is Kevin Cheung, and he’s a professor of Mathematics at Carleton University in Canada. Do check out his videos and let him know what you think! Happy learning. :)…
Udacity: Teaching thousands of students to program on Udacity with App Engine, part 1: Steve Huffman
Cross-posted with the Google App Engine Blog: This post is part one of a two-part series on how Udacity is using App Engine to teach thousands of students how to program online. Today’s guest blogger is Steve Huffman, founder of Reddit and Hipmunk. Steve recently taught a web development course at Udacity, which offers free online courses in programming and other subjects. Steve shares his experience using Google App Engine to teach the course. This past spring I had the pleasure of teaching a course for Udacity, an online education company putting high quality college level courses online for free. I was recruited to Udacity by a former college professor and friend of mine, Dave Evans, Udacity's VP of Education.When I was a Computer Science student at the University of Virginia, I was fortunate to take a cryptology course taught by Professor Evans. He presented us two ways to get an A in this course. We could either do it the old fashioned way--do well on tests and homewor…
OLI. Carnegie Mellon University: OLI at Georgetown
An update from Theresa Schlafly, Writer/Editor and Project Manager at the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) Schlafly describes how she and her colleague, Yong Lee, helped professor Parina Patel create more consistency between lab sections and ……