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Also see:
- Preparing for the ACU Connected Summit — from Personalizing Learning with the iPod Touch by Louise Duncan
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On 02/15/2011,
in Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, assistive technologies, disruption, education technology, emerging technologies, game-changing environment, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, learner profiles, learning agents, learning ecosystem, personalized/customized learning, the downsides of how people use tech,
by Daniel Christian
Computer ties human as they square off on ‘Jeopardy!’ — from CNN.com
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To be clear, I celebrate what the LORD has created and given to us in our amazingly-complex minds! I do not subscribe to the idea that robots are better than humans or that technologies are to be glorified and that technologies will save the world — not at all. (In fact, I have some concerns about the havoc that could easily occur if certain technologies wound up in the wrong hands — with those who have no fear of the LORD and who have massive amounts of pride…with hearts of stone.)
Getting back to my point…
The phenomenon that Christensen, Horn, and Johnson describe in Disrupting Class continues to play out in higher education/K-12. The innovations are mainly happening outside the face-to-face T&L environments.
Also see:
- IBM’s Watson is very 20th century — from Judy Breck
- How IBM created Watson to beat jeopardy — from digitizd
- This Computer Could Defeat You at ‘Jeopardy!’ Q: What is Watson? — from PBS
- IBM Watson Videos –nextbigfuture.com
On 02/12/2011,
in corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, innovation, learning ecosystem, productivity / tips and tricks, training / L&D,
by Daniel Christian
2011 Training Top 125 Best Practices and Outstanding Initiatives — from trainingmag.com
Training editors recognize innovative and successful learning and development programs and practices.
- Best practice award winners
- Outstanding initiative award winners
- 2011 special training top 125 award winners
On 02/09/2011,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, Canada, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, learning agents, learning ecosystem, personalized/customized learning, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
Elementary, my dear Watson: Jeopardy computer offers insight into human cognition — from Sentient Developments by George Dvorsky
Also see:
- The DeepQA Project — from IBM; the overarching principles in DeepQA are:
- Massive parallelism:
Exploit massive parallelism in the consideration of multiple interpretations and hypotheses.- Many experts:
Facilitate the integration, application and con-textual evaluation of a wide range of loosely coupled probabilistic question and content analytics.- Pervasive confidence estimation:
No single component commits to an answer; all components produce features and associated confidences, scoring different question and contentinterpretations. An underlying confidence processing substratelearns how to stack and combine the scores.- Integrate shallow and deep knowledge:
Balance the use of strict semantics and shallow semantics, leveraging many loosely formed ontologies.
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On 02/08/2011,
in 21st century, attention, higher education, innovation, IT in HE, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, open courseware and systems, social learning / networks, social media,
by Daniel Christian
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| The ten most widely read online EDUCAUSE Review articles from 2010 focused on innovation, current IT issues, individual/collaborative learning, attention, openness, the future campus, scholarly publishing, and libraries.
In case you missed them in 2010:
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On 02/07/2011,
in digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, interactivity, learning agents, learning ecosystem, multimedia,
by Daniel Christian
Semantic technologies and learning — from Steve Wheeler
Excerpt:
The January special issue of Interactive Learning Environments is out right now. Our guest editors have done a great job drawing together 5 excellent papers under the banner of ‘Semantic Technologies for Multimedia Enhanced Learning Environments’ and for Learning with ‘e’s readers, here is the editorial in full, with excellent summaries of all the papers by our special issue editors Marco Bertini, Vladan Devedzic, Dragan Gasevic and Carlo Torniai…
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This special issue solicited papers focused on the use of semantic technologies in multimedia-enhanced learning environments. In this call, we were especially interested in publishing research reports and lessons learned in the following research tasks:
- Ontologies and semantic annotations for multimedia learning objects.
- Collaborative tagging and folksonomies for multimedia learning objects.
- Semantic social networking in multimedia-based learning environments.
- Semantic technologies for enabling pedagogical theories in multimedia-enhanced learning environments.
- Semantic-enhanced learning designs in multimedia-enhanced learning.
- Semantic technologies for personalization and adaptation of multimedia-enhanced learning.
- Semantic-rich service-oriented architectures for multimedia learning environments.
- Semantic multimedia content for (collaborative) mobile learning.
On 02/07/2011,
in digital audio, digital learning, digital video, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, library / librarians, multimedia,
by Daniel Christian
Digital Media and Technology in Afterschool Programs, Libraries, and Museums
Becky Herr-Stephenson, Diana Rhoten, Dan Perkel, and Christo Sims — with contributions from Anne Balsamo, Maura Klosterman, and Susana Smith Bautista
© 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology | The MIT Press | Cambridge, Massachusetts | London, England
Excerpt:
This report synthesizes research and examples of the diverse ways in which organizations approach and integrate digital media and technology into their youth programs, practices, and philosophies. We aim to clarify a framework for understanding organizational efforts related to digital media and technology and to establish a foundation for future research in this area. Our guiding questions for this report are:
- How have digital media and technology been incorporated into youth programs within educational, civic, and cultural organizations, including afterschool programs, libraries, and museums?
- What types of participation and learning do digital media and technology support and/or complicate within these organizations?
- How can research in the area of digital media and learning contribute to better integration of technology within individual organizations and better coordination via technology among organizations?
On 02/04/2011,
in education technology, learning ecosystem, productivity / tips and tricks, RSS, social learning / networks, social media, tools,
by Daniel Christian
Content Curation Tools: How to pick the right venue? — from Content Curation Marketing by Pawan Deshpande
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By definition, content curation is the act of continually identifying, organizing, and sharing the best and most relevant content on a specific topic or issue online. When evaluating which content curation tool to use, there are three primary areas of consideration:
1. The Inputs – Where does the content curation tool get information from? What type of content will this allow me to curate? Will it help identify and recommend relevant content?
2. The Organization – What does this tool offer in terms of organizing content once it has been identified? What type of data models does this represent content as? In a simple chronological list, or an inter-linked structure? Does it let me annotate and editorialize the curated content?
3. The Venue – How and where can I share the content once I have decided to curate it?
In this blog post, I am primarily going to focus on the decided on a content curation tool based on the venue – the channels to which your content is curated. And just like most things, there’s no one right answer. It really depends on your goals and objectives.
On 02/04/2011,
in India, learning ecosystem, microlearning, mobile learning, multimedia, tools, training / L&D, vendors, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
Upside2Go is a solution that will not only help your training department reach out to your mobile workforce easily, but would also enable a mobile-based approach to real-time sharing and collaborating, within and outside a team.
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— from Upside2Go – Changing The Game at Upside Learning blog by Aneesh Bhat
Also see:
On 01/29/2011,
in adjunct faculty, faculty, formal learning, informal learning, instructional design, learning ecosystem, learning theories, pedagogy, teachers, teaching & learning,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
I’d like to thank:
- Doug Lynch, Dr. Stanton Wortham, and Elliott Masie for recording these videos and for sharing their insights/expertise
- The University of Pennsylvania for making these items available
- Capella University for including the above resource in a course that I’m currently taking from Dr. Katherine Emmons entitled, “Learning Theory and the Educational Process.”
2/8/11:
Note/correction from my original posting:
Doug Lynch and Stanton Wortham are not at Penn State, but rather they are at the University of Pennsylvania; Elliot Masie is an Adjunct Faculty Member at the University of Pennsylvania.
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-books, 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 / globalization, 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 "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, 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, transmedia, 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…
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From DSC:
Then today, I saw Cisco’s piece on their Videoscape product line! Check it out!
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On 01/19/2011,
in change, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, IT in HE, learning ecosystem, the downsides of how people use tech, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
Steve Taffee makes some good points in his blog posting entitled, “What if your cloud evaporates?”
When vendors offering cloud-based apps and services suddenly no longer support or offer a product line or they begin charging for what was previously free, etc. — this creates a significant issue. Quoting Steve’s posting:
The off-again, on-again fate of the social bookmarking service Delicious led to considerable angst among its users, with the discussion among some educational technologists broadening to include all cloud-based services and scenarios of suddenly being without access to mission critical services.
This is another reason why I entitled this blog Learning Ecosystems — because all of the people, tools, and things that can contribute to our learning are often in a constant state of flux/change. So we are forced to adapt. However, this is easier said than done when suddenly 10,000 students can’t access application ABC or service XYZ on the cloud. This is a truly problematic situation. It won’t stop cloud computing from moving forward, but it would sure be helpful if vendors would be required to give some sort of “heads-up” to help us address this issue and find alternatives well in advance of having to make a switch.