digital learning

London: Videos from the Learning Without Frontiers Festival now online

On 01/28/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, digital learning, digital textbooks, disruption, education reform, Europe, technology (general), ubiquitous learning, UK, by Daniel Christian

London: Videos from the Learning Without Frontiers Festival now online

Learning Without Frontiers is a global platform for disruptive thinkers and practitioners from the education, digital media, technology and entertainment sectors who come together to explore how new disruptive technologies can drive radical efficiencies and improvements in learning whilst providing equality of access.

If you were unable to attend the recent LWF Festival of Learning & Technology in London we’re pleased to let you know that videos from the conference are now online for your personal or group viewing pleasure. There are a number of ways to view these videos so just choose the one you prefer.

To view, comment & join the discussions you can visit the video pages on the LWF site here

Amongst the alternatives, they are available on the following platforms:

iTunes (download to your PC, iPad or iPhone)*

YouTube

Blip.TV

And for users of Apple TV simply search for the Learning Without Frontiers channel under podcasts.

*You can also search for Learning Without Frontiers in the iTunes store – they are FREE!

Tagged with: 1:1 • 21st century • 24x7x365 • digital learning • disruption • education • educational technology • emerging technologies • Europe • reform • technology (general) • ubiquitous learning • UK

Who needs textbooks? How Washington State is redesigning textbooks for the digital age.

On 01/27/2011, in digital learning, digital textbooks, library / librarians, open courseware and systems, by Daniel Christian

Who needs textbooks? — from Newsweek.com
How Washington State is redesigning textbooks for the digital age.

Who needs textbooks? How Washington State is redesigning textbooks for the digital age.

Jessie Sellers, a student at Tacoma Community College in Washington state, was puzzled when he logged onto his school’s website last December to figure out which book he needed for his upcoming English class. Whereas for all his previous courses, the 24-year-old education major could simply click on a link to view the name of the required textbook, this time there were no books listed at all. It was no mistake: thanks to an ambitious pilot program aimed at reducing the cost of textbooks at public colleges, Sellers and hundreds of other students across the state won’t have to buy textbooks for more than three dozen courses offered this winter.

Washington’s Open Course Library is the largest state-funded effort in the nation to make core college course materials available on the Web for $30 or less per class. Financed with $750,000 from the state of Washington and a matching grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the goal isn’t just to reduce student costs, says program architect Cable Green. It’s also to create engaging, interactive learning materials that will help improve course completion rates. By the time the project is completed in 2012, digitized textbook equivalents for some 81 high-enrollment classes will be available online for the more than 400,000 students enrolled in Washington’s network of community and technical colleges. Even better, the materials can be shared across the globe, largely for free, because they will be published in an open format that avoids the most onerous licensing restrictions. To keep costs at a minimum, the teachers developing the materials are relying primarily on either existing material in the public domain or embarking on the painstaking task of developing materials from scratch.

Tagged with: content repositories • digital learning • digital textbooks • learning objects • library / librarians • open • textbooks

Simple tools for digital classroom

On 01/24/2011, in career development, digital learning, professional development, strategy, student teaching/teacher education, teachers, teaching & learning, by Daniel Christian

Simple tools for digital classroom — from November Learning by guest blogger Geoff Gevalt
The hardest thing for teachers to do is make the transition from paper and pencils to online media: Not enough computers, not enough knowledge, not enough time and a whole new way of doing things. We work with hundreds of teachers in the same situation and we offer this advice:

Take small steps.
Find a couple of tech-savvy kids in each of your classes to help.
Explore the digital world on your own.
Seek out people in the school or in professional development spheres to mentor you.
Don’t be afraid to fail.
Don’t be afraid if you don’t have all the answers – your kids will help.

Teacher Knowledge — Exploring, a few links…

Tagged with: career development • digital learning • professional development • strategy • student teaching/teacher education • teachers • teaching & learning

FaceVsion’s TouchCam V1 does SkypeHD at 720p for $69.99

On 01/22/2011, in A/V -- audio/visual, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, global, tools, vendors, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

FaceVsion’s TouchCam V1 does SkypeHD at 720p for $69.99 — from FaceVsion by Tim Stevens

Tagged with: A/V • digital audio • digital learning • digital video • Global learning • Skype • tools • videoconferencing • web-based collaboration

Millions of TV’s (as completely converged/Internet-connected devices) = millions of learners?!?

On 01/20/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, 3D, A/V -- audio/visual, animation, blended learning, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, collaboration, convergence, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, cost of getting a degree, creativity, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, distance education, e-readers, education, education reform, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, flipping -- inverted learning, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, hybrid learning, immersion, informal learning, innovation, interactivity, internet, K-12 related, learning, learning agents, learning ecosystem, learning preferences, learning spaces, lifelong learning, love of learning, marketplaces, media/film, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multimedia, new business models, new media literacies, online learning, online media, online tutoring, play, podcasting, simulations, social learning / networks, social media, strategy, teaching & learning, technologies for your home, technology (general), telepresence, television, training / L&D, trends, ubiquitous learning, user experience (UX), user interface design, vendors, videoconferencing, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, vision/possibilities, visualizing information, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:

The other day, I created/posted the top graphic below. Take the concepts below — hook them up to engines that use cloud-based learner profiles — and you have some serious potential for powerful, global, ubiquitous learning! A touch-sensitive panel might be interesting here as well.

Come to think of it, add social networking, videoconferencing, and web-based collaboration tools — the power to learn would be quite impressive. Multimedia to the nth degree.

Then add to that online marketplaces for teaching and learning — where you can be both a teacher and a learner at the same time — hmmm…

From DSC:
Then today, I saw Cisco’s piece on their Videoscape product line! Check it out!

Tagged with: 1:1 • 21st century • 24x7x365 • 3D • A/V • animation • blended learning • cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related • collaboration • convergence • corporate training / universities • corporate universities / corporate training • Daniel S. Christian • digital audio • digital learning • digital storytelling • digital video • e-learning • enterprise learning • game-changing environment • global • Global learning • hybrid learning • learning ecosystem • multimedia • online learning • online media • online tutoring • transmedia • trends • TV • ubiquitous learning • videoconferencing • virtual field trips • virtual schools • virtual tutoring • web-based collaboration

The e-learning skills gap — Clive Sheperd

On 01/20/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, elearning, expectations, game-changing environment, generational differences, instructional design, multimedia, new media literacies, training / L&D, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: 21st century • 24x7x365 • corporate training / universities • digital audio • digital learning • digital video • e-learning • game-changing environment • generational differences • instructional design • Mobile learning • multimedia • new media literacies • training

Georgia Tech Center to explore 21st century universities — from CampusTechnology.com by Dian Schaffhauser

The Georgia Institute of Technology is setting up a new center specifically to serve as a living laboratory for testing new forms of education. Driven by the growth of social networking, online learning, and other developments, the Center for 21st Century Universities will enable faculty at the Atlanta institution to experiment with new approaches to curriculum and its delivery. According to former College of Computing Dean Rich DeMillo, who will lead the center, it will also work with national and international groups involved in higher education reform. The first item on the center’s agenda is to develop a seed grant program for promising early proposals.

Tagged with: 1:1 • 21st century • 24x7x365 • blended learning • customized learning • digital learning • education reform • educational gaming • educational technology • emerging technologies • future of higher education • game-changing environment • hybrid learning • ideas • innovation • leadership • online learning • personalized learning • social learning • social media • social networking • teaching & learning • vision

Vuvox: A tool for digital storytelling

On 01/19/2011, in cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, creativity, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, storytelling, by Daniel Christian

Vuvox: A tool for digital storytelling — from Instructional Design Fusions by Dianne Rees

Dianne mentions that Vuvox provides some helpful videos to get you started:

Tagged with: cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related • creativity • digital learning • digital photography • digital storytelling • storytelling

Toontastic: Looks like a great iPad-based tool for inspiring storytelling, play, learning, creativity

On 01/19/2011, in creativity, digital learning, digital storytelling, interactivity, K-12 related, learning, love of learning, multimedia, music, play, storytelling, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: creativity • digital learning • digital storytelling • interactivity • K-12 • learning • love of learning • multimedia • play • storytelling

Updates re: Pearson

On 01/19/2011, in curriculum, digital learning, global, India, instructional design, online learning, online media, online tutoring, publishing, UK, United States, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
A global push continues to be evident in some of the things that Pearson has been up to in the last year:

Pearson takes controlling stake in India’s TutorVista — from WSJ (1/11)
Pearson acquires TutorVista: expands Pearson’s business in education in India and in global online tutoring — from Pearson (1/11)
Pearson to offer degrees in the UK — from Pearson (12/2010)
Pearson VUE opens Dubai office and appoints local Arabic-speaking team — from Pearson (11/2010)
Pearson acquires The Administrative Assistants Ltd.; extends leadership in student information systems — from Pearson (11/2010)
Pearson to open fifty new English language centres in China — from Pearson (11/2010)
Pearson to acquire 75% stake in CTI Education Group, a leading higher education company in South Africa — from Pearson (11/2010)
Pearson eCollege, National Academy Foundation partner to provide online teacher professional development — from Pearson (9/2010)
Pearson to acquire America’s Choice: plans to extend reach of school improvement services — from Pearson (8/2010)
Pearson to acquire Wall Street Institute: acquisition extends Pearson’s position as world leader in English language teaching — from Pearson (7/2010)
Pearson raises earnings guidance — from Financial Times
- Pearson, the publishing group that owns Penguin books and the Financial Times, raised its full-year earnings forecasts for the third time in less than six months, thanks to strong growth in computer-based learning products and in the developing world.

Tagged with: curriculum • digital learning • global • Global learning • India • instructional design • online learning • online media • online tutoring • publishing • UK • United States • vendors

How will technologies like AirPlay change education? 24x7x365 access on any device is one possibility..

On 01/17/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, 3D, A/V -- audio/visual, Apple, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, distance education, e-readers, education, education reform, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, entrepreneurship, flipping -- inverted learning, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, human-computer interaction (HCI), informal learning, innovation, interaction design, interactivity, interface design, internet, IT in HE, K-12 related, learner profiles, learning, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, lifelong learning, media/film, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multimedia, new media literacies, online learning, online media, online tutoring, play, simulations, social learning / networks, teaching & learning, technologies for your home, technology (general), telepresence, training / L&D, ubiquitous learning, user experience (UX), user interface design, videoconferencing, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

Addendum on 1-20-11:
The future of the TV is online — from telegraph.co.uk
Your television’s going to get connected, says Matt Warman

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Learning: Is there an app for that? [Research from Joan Ganz Cooney Center]

On 01/15/2011, in digital learning, disruption, game-changing environment, generational differences, K-12 related, learning, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multimedia, new media literacies, research, teaching & learning, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: digital learning • game-changing environment • generational differences • learning • Mobile learning • mobile technology • multimedia • new media literacies • research • teaching & learning

Math that moves

On 01/12/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, Apple, blended learning, creativity, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, e-readers, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, expectations, face-to-face, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), hybrid learning, innovation, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, learning preferences, love of learning, mathematics, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multimedia, new media literacies, online learning, online media, online tutoring, passions, play, podcasting, reading, simulations, storytelling, student-related, teaching & learning, tools, trends, ubiquitous learning, videoconferencing, visualizing information, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
I post this here — with higher ed included in the tags/categories — because if the trend within K-12 continues (i.e. that of using such technologies as the iPad, digital textbooks, mobile learning devices, etc.), students’ expectations WILL be impacted. When they hit our doorsteps, they will come with their heightened sets of expectations. The question is, will we in higher ed be ready for them?

Tagged with: 1:1 • 21st century • 24x7x365 • A/V • Apple • blended learning • convergence • creativity • digital audio • digital learning • digital storytelling • digital textbooks • digital video • e-books • e-learning • e-readers • emerging technologies • engagement • engaging students • face-to-face • games • higher education • human-computer interaction (HCI) • hybrid learning • K-12 • Keeping students engaged • learning ecosystem • learning objects • learning preferences • love of learning • math • Mobile learning • mobile technology • multimedia • new media literacies • online learning • online media • play • student expectations • trends

Towards a new-digital learning ecosystem based on autonomic Web services

On 01/10/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, digital learning, elearning, innovation, internet, learner profiles, learning ecosystem, online learning, by Daniel Christian

Towards a new-digital learning ecosystem based on autonomic Web services — from IEEEXplore Digital Library (emphasis below from DSC)

Abstract
With the latest advances in information and communication technologies, learners can now engage in continuous and rich learning-sessions that characterize today’s digital learning ecosystems. In these ecosystems, learning resources are pervasive and dynamic. A key challenge is to develop a scalable learning system that addresses the inherent complexity of learning sessions and cater for the specific needs and requirements of individual learners. In this paper, we adopt autonomic Web services to capture disparate learning resources and build an autonomic digital learning ecosystem that reconfigures itself in response to changes in the environment such as learners’ profiles, resource availabilities, and type of instructional material. The use of autonomic Web services permits to abstract the learning resources into distributed and uniformly structured objects and to record learners’ attributes into a packaged profile. These Web services sense the learning context and coach learners in their pursuit of constructive instructional sessions. A service-oriented architecture is proposed to connect learning resources, learners’ profiles, and contextual indicators. A prototype is, also, illustrated in the paper to show the feasibility of the proposed solutions.

Also see:

Tagged with: 1:1 • 21st century • 24x7x365 • cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related • customized learning • digital learning • e-learning • innovation • internet • learner profiles • learning ecosystem • online learning • personalized learning

Governors will guide the shift to digital learning

On 01/07/2011, in change, digital learning, education reform, K-12 related, leadership, legislatures / government / legal, online learning, by Daniel Christian

Governors will guide the shift to digital learning — from EdReformer.com by Tom Vander Ark

State leadership matters in education (as mentioned in National Journal), now more than ever.

States are broke. While revenues lag, costs continue to escalate (as a result of automatic pay increases, cost of living adjustments, and public pension payments) requiring several more years of painful cutbacks. Without strong state leadership, these cuts will have a disproportionate impact on low-income students.

It’s clear that a decade of standards-based reform has fallen short of expectations. Implementing real college and career ready standards that provide smooth transition to earning college credits will be a central challenge of this decade.

The pivot to personal digital learning holds the promise of customizing and extending learning, ensuring that every student receives quality instruction, and making schools more efficient. However, the shift requires state and local leadership.

Tagged with: budgetary • change • digital learning • education reform • K-12 • leadership • legislation • online learning

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London: Videos from the Learning Without Frontiers Festival now online

Who needs textbooks? How Washington State is redesigning textbooks for the digital age.

Simple tools for digital classroom

FaceVsion’s TouchCam V1 does SkypeHD at 720p for $69.99

The e-learning skills gap — Clive Sheperd

Updates re: Pearson

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