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Homework Rescue offers online resource — from savagepacer.com by Keighla Schmidt
There’s Google chat, Facebook chat, AOL instant messaging, Yahoo! messenger and the list goes on when it comes to instant help at your fingertips. Add teenagers into the mix and consider the combo peanut butter and jelly.
And when it’s time to do homework at the Braun house in Savage, mom Sandy has no problem with her Prior Lake High School children Jake, a freshman, and Leigh, a sophomore, going online and chatting.
As long as they’re logged onto Homework Rescue, a free, online live one-on-one instant messaging tutor offered through the library and can be accessed remotely.
Homework Rescue is available at www.scott.lib.mn.us under the online references collection daily from 1-11 p.m. for free by using a library identification number. About 100 metro area libraries are part of the Metropolitan Library Services Agency (MELSA), which financially supports the program.
On 10/11/2010,
in 21st century, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, competency-based learning/education, education technology, emerging technologies, game-changing environment, innovation, instructional design, intelligent tutoring, learner profiles, learning agents, online learning, online tutoring,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
I was reading a white paper from Tegrity today (see below graphics). It mentioned that the next frontier for lecture capture technologies is focused on developing more personalized learning experiences.
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— A brief aside from DSC:
Reminds me of some of the functionality found in Livescribe’s echo smartpen.
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The ability to integrate lecture capture platforms with Learning Management Systems (LMS’s) can help to automate the authentication and authorization needed to ensure learners get to review what they are allowed to review. Integration hooks provided by lecture capture and LMS vendors are viable as methods of ensuring a baseline approach to secure access. Yet most lecture capture systems do not know who the viewer is (as the LMS does the authentication and authorization); they only know that the stream is permitted to play and that students of the course are watching.
This sets the stage for the next transformation of lecture capture solutions – into platforms that can understand not just who their users are, but also what those users need to do and how their experience can be personalized and enhanced.
The coming shift will bring creation of custom learning environments that cater to the individual student by offering personal context-sensitivity, the ability to draw on the knowledge of peers and instructors, and the ability to better manage and monitor each individual learner’s behaviors and customize their experience to their individual needs. Among the major effects of this shift:
- Democratization of the content creation process as learners themselves contribute to or otherwise use lecture capture tools to learn from or teach others
- Faster learning by enabling learners to access information more quickly through bookmarks – and placing efficiencies within the platform to streamline teaching and learning
- Changing impact on educators, who can rely on lecture capture feedback loops based on features like bookmarking to enable them to adjust content and teaching styles to suit learner needs
- Use of presence and the fact that a system can know a learner to automate and make more efficient the act of finding peers or instructors for further learning interactions
- Greater ability to deliver content and offer customized features via mobile devices
This white paper focuses on the evolution of lecture capture as a tool for creating a coherent environment for learner-centered instruction, showing the possibilities for improved efficiencies and better learning outcomes.
From DSC:
The integration of a lecture capture system w/ an LMS got me to thinking…what if each person in the world had a constantly-updated, adaptive, web-based learner profile that detailed their current age, current and past places of residence, language(s), hobbies, interests, courses taken, major(s), minor(s), last grade completed, which RSS feeds they subscribe to, which sources of educational content they prefer, etc. Given permission by the student, a vendor’s tool could then query the database and look for particular fields…plugging that content into their own application for greater context and engagement.
So if a 3rd grader in India loved horses, the math problems could utilize that information to make the problems more engaging to that person.
Hmmm…along these lines, I think I’ll set up some Google alerts to include:
- Multi-agent systems
- Adaptive learning systems
- Artificial intelligence education
- Distributed e-learning systems
- Semantic web education
- Learning agents
- Intelligent tutoring
- Online tutoring
The next few years should be veeeerrrryyy interesting. Fasten your seatbelts!
On 10/07/2010,
in elearning, online learning, online tutoring, student teaching/teacher education, teachers, teaching & learning, teaching online, virtual K-12 schools,
by Daniel Christian
E-Learning 2010: E-Educators Evolving — from EducationWeek.com (9/20/10)
This special report, the second in a three-part series on e-learning, aims to answer questions related to the growing role of e-educators in K-12 education. It provides perspectives and advice from state policymakers and virtual school providers navigating through the new and often murky policy waters of online-only education, and features insights from e-educators in the trenches of virtual schooling.
On 10/06/2010,
in 24x7x365 access, business side of he, convergence, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, education technology, educational games / serious games, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, future of higher education, game-changing environment, innovation, intelligent tutoring, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, love of learning, multimedia, new business models, online learning, online media, online tutoring, publishing, vision/possibilities,
by Daniel Christian
While looking at the video for Sonos Controller for the iPad, I wondered…what if we could replace the selection below — i.e. the word music with the words “educational providers” — and then control which room received which signal/content?
Wow…talk about a home dedicated to learning! 🙂
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On 10/04/2010,
in convergence, creativity, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, distance education, e-books, e-readers, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, game-changing environment, Google, innovation, online learning, online media, online tutoring, tools, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
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Addendums:
10-5-10– from Google announces TV deals with HBO, NBA, others
“One of our goals with Google TV is to finally open up the living room and enable new innovation from content creators, programmers, developers and advertisers,” Ambarish Kenghe, developer product manager for Google TV, said in the post.
On 10/01/2010,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, 3D, accessibility / UDL, Adobe, adult learning, animation, Apple, art, assistive technologies, Augmented Reality (AR), creativity, design, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, education technology, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, Google, graphics, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, hybrid learning, interactivity, interface design, learning ecosystem, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multimedia, music, new media literacies, online learning, online media, online tutoring, podcasting, productivity / tips and tricks, professional development, programming, RSS, simulations, storytelling, student-related, teaching & learning, teaching online, training / L&D, user experience (UX), user interface design, visualizing information, web design and production, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
We use Lynda.com and the feedback has been excellent. Back in 1997, I took a 1-day seminar from Lynda Weinman out at SFSU’s Multimedia Studies Program. I learned more from her in a few hours then I have in many courses. She knows how to make things very understandable…and she’s a great teacher. If she doesn’t know the topic, she selects people who know how to explain that topic in easy-to-understand terms.
So when I saw this item — Connect@NMC: Panel Discussion Led By Laurie Burruss of Lynda.com – Implementing Lynda.com Campus-Wide — I felt that I should pass it along.
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On 07/21/2010,
in 24x7x365 access, business, business side of he, career development, change, changing business models, colleges, community colleges, competency-based learning/education, corporate / business world, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, disruption, education reform, education technology, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, face-to-face, faculty, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, higher education, innovation, leadership, learning ecosystem, lifelong learning, more voice more choice more control, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, online learning, online tutoring, open courseware and systems, pace of change, personalized/customized learning, strategy, teaching & learning, traditional / tradition, universities, using teams, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
From Spring 2010
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From DSC:
If you are even remotely connected to higher education, then you *need* to read this one!
Most certainly, not everything that Thomas Frey says will take place…but I’ll bet you he’s right on a number of accounts. Whether he’s right or not, the potential scenarios he brings up ought to give us pause to reflect on ways to respond to these situations…on ways to spot and take advantage of the various opportunities that arise (which will only happen to those organizations who are alert and looking for them).
On 04/20/2010,
in disruption, education technology, elearning, future of higher education, game-changing environment, new business models, online learning, online media, online tutoring, open courseware and systems, universities,
by Daniel Christian
The Virtual University — by Anya Kamenetz | April 20, 2010 — my thanks to Mr. Jeff Wiggerman at Davenport University for this resource
Why cash-strapped colleges need to stop worrying and learn to love the online classroom.
“At this point, however, the hybrid, NCAT-style course-redesign models seem most compelling. Not only do they show some of the best learning results, but they’re in keeping with the multifaceted history of the university, and they offer the reassurance of familiarity — a scaffolding, if you will, for the transition to new modes of teaching.”
On 04/19/2010,
in blended learning, online learning, online tutoring, teachers, teaching & learning, teaching online,
by Daniel Christian
‘Virtual’ internships prepare student teachers for new world of online schooling — from University of Florida, via Virtual School Meanderings blog
From DSC:
This brings up some very interesting points and questions. If K-12 education continues to use more online learning:
- Shouldn’t colleges of education be teaching their students how to teach in an online environment? Or at least in a blended-learning environment?
- Should students who are studying to become educators be asked to specialize in either face-to-face-based teaching, or teaching online, or teaching in blended learning environment?
- Or should they get exposure to f2f, online and blended as part of that education…?
Hmmm…I’m not sure. But I don’t think we can expect to make as much progress if our colleges of education aren’t adapting to the changing learning environment out there.
On 03/15/2010,
in accessibility / UDL, education technology, higher education, K-12 related, online learning, online media, online tutoring, open courseware and systems,
by Daniel Christian
1. Education for All – Unfinished Business
2. Seeking a Silver Bullet
3. Technology is the Answer – What is the Question?
4. Open Schools and Mega-Schools
5. Teacher Education at Scale
6. Strategies for Success
Appendix 1: Profiles – Selected Open Schools and Mega-Schools
Appendix 2: Programmes and Mechanisms for Expanding Teacher Supply
Mega-Schools, Technology and Teachers [VIDEO] addresses the new challenges created by both the successes and the failures of the EFA campaign. This book advocates new approaches for providing access to secondary education for today’s rapidly growing population of children and young adults and examines:
- The creation and expansion of Mega-Schools, which combine distance learning and community support and have a proven track record of increasing access at scale.
- How to prepare the 10 million new teachers that are required to achieve Education for All by 2015 (emphasis DSC) by focusing on classroom-based in-service training.
- Strategies for using technology to scale up distance education cost-effectively (emphasis DSC).
- The creation of a 21st century educational ecosystem (emphasis DSC) that integrates open schooling and teacher education with communities and their school systems.
- Successful examples of open schools and teacher education programmes operating at scale around the world.
The future of e-Learning is more growth — from The Journal by David Nagel
By virtually every measure, electronic learning is experiencing unprecedented growth and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. A new analysis and forecast released this month by research firm Ambient Insight bolstered previous research in this area, showing that electronic learning, by dollar volume, reached $27.1 billion in 2009 and predicting this figure will nearly double that by 2014, with academic institutions leading the way.
According to the report, “The Worldwide Market for Self-paced eLearning Products and Services: 2009-2014 Forecast and Analysis,” by 2014, e-learning will reach a dollar volume of $49.6 billion, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.8 percent over five years. The dollar figures in the research included expenditures in five categories of electronic learning technologies, or “self-paced e-learning products.” These included: packaged content, custom content development services, learning platform and tool hosting services, authoring software and tools, and installed learning platforms.
On 03/02/2010,
in future of higher education, game-changing environment, learning ecosystem, legislatures / government / legal, mobile learning, new business models, online learning, online media, online tutoring, open courseware and systems, strategy, student-related, teaching & learning, teaching online, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
Harnessing America’s Wasted Talent — from Peter Smith
“President Obama offered America and the world renewed hope for a better tomorrow. With decades of experience in alternative forms of higher education, Peter Smith grabs that optimistic spirit and seizes the moment to reveal to us the exciting age of Web-based teaching and learning, which is opening access to untold numbers of learners while harnessing the previously wasted talents of millions of people in America and billions around the world. Those seeking insights, a vision of the future, and a chance to join this educational revolution should look forward to Harnessing America’s Wasted Talent.”
—Curtis J. Bonk, professor, Indiana University, and author, The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education
“Anyone who wants to understand where American higher education is headed should read Harnessing America’s Wasted Talent. Peter Smith’s vision of the future of higher education is based on several decades of experience—at the national, state, and international levels. He brings a rare perspective that will interest students, educators, politicians, and those American business leaders who are worried about the future of our workforce and the health of our democracy.”
—Charles Kolb, president, The Committee for Economic Development
“Harnessing America’s Wasted Talent is a must-read for those of us concerned about the increasing economic and education gaps in our country. Peter Smith takes on an important American disconnect: the need for an educated workforce and the fact that most working Americans lack a college degree. Drawing upon his experience in higher education and politics, Smith dissects the problem and presents a contemporary, practical plan to enhance the learning capacity of our country.”
—Joseph B. Moore, president, Lesley University
Table of Contents
Part One: The Law of Thirds.
1 Wasted Talent.
2 Maxed Out: Why Colleges Can’t Meet This Challenge.
3 The Paradox of Personal Learning.
Part Two: Dangerous Conceits.
4 Different Strokes for Different Folks.
5 Learning Is More Than “Strictly Academic”.
6 You Can’t Get There from Here.
Part Three: From Access to Success: A New Ecology of Learning.
7 The End of Scarcity: Education’s Emerging Long Tail.
8 Game Changers: New Media and the Open Education Resource Movement.
9 Reaching the Middle Third: Talent-Friendly Colleges for the Twenty-First Century (C21Cs).
Conclusion: A New Ecology of Learning.
On 03/01/2010,
in online learning, online media, online tutoring, training / L&D, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
