Overview
What is the ideal package of digital content that publishers can market and sell to instructors and/or students? What configuration of objects, say, could they put together that would help them build new business, reduce prices paid by students and institutions, as well as encourage existing adopters to use more of their materials? Continue reading ‘The Ideal Publisher’s Digital Content Package for 2005-2006? — A Portable Learning Environment’
Faculty and instructional designers encounter problems when they try to adapt
learning objects for delivery in their general education college-level distance
courses that are intended for a military audience. One result is disappointment
and frustration in those who believed in the promise of learning objects to
save time, provide robust solutions with depth, high quality, and perfect interchangeability. Continue reading ‘The Problem with Learning Objects in Courses for the Military’
Although it might be efficient to set up a fully automated, fully functioning learning space, minded by HAL from 2001, A Space Odyssey, very few students will actually finish their courses in that charming, fully sanitized and free from human frailty utopia. Why is that? That’s a good question. Continue reading ‘Rehumanizing the E-Learning Space’
For the past several years much noise has been made about the living room PC (Entertainment PC). This is the devise that we heralded as the next one-stop entertainment center in our homes for all media. We were supposed to use these PC-based devices for recording and playing music, videos, and TV throughout the house. Continue reading ‘Real Integration Means a SIngle, Easy-To-Use Device’
Transcript
I was thirteen-years-old the first time I had a cast. I strained a ligament in my knee and the orthopedist, realizing what an active kid I was, theorized that putting a full cast on my leg would be the best way to slow me down and let my body heal a bit. I don’t think I’ve mentioned that the good doctor was very conservative and made my mother promise that she and my father would do their part in making sure my leg got all the rest it needed. That’s an important part of the story. Continue reading ‘Learning-Related Injuries, Anyone?’
Here is a recap of significant posts in the edublogging community from the past 48 hours. Continue reading ‘Daily Tribute’
I’ve been teaching classes for active-duty military for several years now, and over that time, my thinking has taken huge turns and I’ve had to confront the fact that my comfort zone ways of thinking are inadequate. Continue reading ‘The Instructor and the Online Military Student: A Confession’
Here is a recap of significant posts in the edublogging community from the past 48 hours. Continue reading ‘Daily Tribute’
Can your iPod be a part of your hybrid course? Will you do your course activities through your cell phone? It’s coming, if it’s not here already. Most people generally think of hybrid courses as ones that involve face-to-face instruction alternating with web-based contact, usually within a learning management system. However, technology and new ideas about how people learn at a distance are allowing new configurations of “hybrid” to emerge. The major dividing line is over the level of interactivity in the distance portion of the course. Continue reading ‘Interactive and Non-Interactive Hybrid Courses’
Here is a recap of significant posts in the edublogging community from the past 48 hours. Continue reading ‘Daily Tribute’
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