Knewton, Pearson pair up to deliver customized learning experience — from The Journal by Kanoe Namahoe
On 11/02/2011,
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by Daniel Christian
On 10/28/2011,
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by Daniel Christian
On 10/28/2011,
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by Daniel Christian
Excerpt:
We were asked to consider the Internet of Things (IoT) from the user’s viewpoint. Well, my viewpoint is exactly this, since I’m neither a company director nor a software coder or a hardware creator. From an user’s viewpoint I think we are undergoing a big transformation. The Internet of Things comes out from an evolution process which involves calculation power, connections, networking, personal technologies, and that can be resumed in four phases.
On 10/11/2011,
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by Daniel Christian
Apple University will train executives to think like Steve Jobs — from good.is by Liz Dwyer
Excerpt:
If you want to honor Steve Jobs’ life by following in his entrepreneurial footsteps, forget heading to business school. The Los Angeles Times reports that an Apple team has been working on a top-secret project to create an executive training program called Apple University. The goal? To train people to think like Steve Jobs.
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Apple refused to comment on the existence of Apple University, but the Times says that in 2008, Jobs “personally recruited” Joel Podolny, the dean of Yale Business School, to “help Apple internalize the thoughts of its visionary founder to prepare for the day when he’s not around anymore.” Apple analyst Tim Bajarin told the Times that, “it became pretty clear that Apple needed a set of educational materials so that Apple employees could learn to think and make decisions as if they were Steve Jobs.” Though the curriculum is still under wraps, Jobs himself oversaw the creation of the “university-caliber courses.” (emphasis DSC)
Also see:
Steve Jobs helped plan Apple University — an executive training program to help
Apple carry on without him. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times / October 6, 2011)
From DSC:
If Apple were to choose to disrupt higher education, several other pieces of the puzzle have already been built and/or continue to be enhanced:
- Siri — a serious start towards the use of intelligent agents / intelligent tutoring
- An infrastructure to support 24x7x365 access and synchronization of content/assignments/files to a student’s various devices — via iCloud (available today via iTunes 10.5)
- iTunes U already has millions of downloads and contains content from some of the world’s top universities
- The internal expertise and teams to create incredibly-rich, interactive, multimedia-based, personalized, customized educational content
- Students — like employees in the workplace — are looking for information/training/learning on demand — when they need it and on whatever device they need it
- Apple — or other 3rd parties — could assist publishers in creating cloud-based apps (formerly called textbooks) to download to students’/professors’ devices as well as to the Chalkboards of the Future
- The iPad continues to be implemented in a variety of education settings, allowing for some seriously interactive, mobile-based learning
At the least, I might be losing a bit more sleep if I were heading up an MBA program or a business school…
On 08/26/2011,
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by Daniel Christian
Also see:
Above items originally/ultimately from:
- Pervasive Entertainment – Games, film, real world, TV merged with social networks — from personalizemedia.com by Gary Hayes
On 08/24/2011,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, adult learning, change, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, formal learning, higher education, informal learning, learning, learning ecosystem, online learning, Personal Learning Networks (PLNs), personalized/customized learning, social learning / networks, social media, staying relevant, training / L&D, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
Social media and its impact on how we learn in the workplace — from C4PLT by Jane Hart
From DSC:
One reflection that jumped out at me from Jane’s excellent presentation…and that I believe is a universal truth:
If an organization doesn’t respond to changing conditions, needs, desires, preferences, best interests, and/or the requirements of its customers, that organization will diminish in usefulness and will most likely (albeit eventually) go out of business.
I know I’m not introducing a new thought here and the above statement seems very self-evident, but do we heed this advice in corporate L&D? Corporate IT? IT within higher education? In higher education as an industry?
On 08/18/2011,
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by Daniel Christian
On 08/12/2011,
in 21st century, accessibility / UDL, assessment, engagement / engaging students, higher education, instructional design, K-12 related, learning, multimedia, pedagogy, personalized/customized learning, student-related, teachers, teaching & learning,
by Daniel Christian
My thanks to Mrs. Krista Spahr, Calvin College, for this resource and the quote below:
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is meant to minimize barriers and to maximize learning.
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Reflections from DSC:
Though I still have much to learn about Universal Design for Learning (UDL), my initial thought is that I really like this approach, as it moves us away from the one-size-fits-all approach and towards a teaching and learning environment that offers more choice, more selection, and more opportunities for customization and personalization. Plus, as companies such as Apple and Microsoft have seen, functionality that started out trying to address accessibility-related needs ended up helping everyone!
Along these lines, I created this graphic years ago — with the idea that students would have a choice on which media they might prefer to use to absorb the information:
Again, the idea being that we could provide the same content in 3-5 different ways and let the students select what works best for them. Plus, in the example above, we could even see how other students are describing/making meaning of something.
But it goes further than this as I’m understanding UDL. For example, the methods for achieving a learning outcome can be greatly varied, as the assignments for a particular outcome might be reaching via watching a video clip, or reading a book, or doing a project, or writing a story, or creating music, or ___(fill in the blank) ____.
Also see:
On 08/07/2011,
in interactivity, mathematics, online learning, personalized/customized learning,
by Daniel Christian
Apollo to buy adaptive-learning company for $75-Million — from The Chronicle by Josh Keller
Excerpt:
The Apollo Group, which runs the University of Phoenix, announced on Tuesday that it plans to pay $75-million to purchase Carnegie Learning, which develops interactive math instruction that adapts to the needs of individual students.
On 08/07/2011,
in accessibility / UDL, personalized/customized learning, project-based learning, special needs, teaching & learning,
by Daniel Christian
Universal Design for Learning: It’s Not Just for Disability Experts Anymore (The Confessions of a First-Time Teacher) — from National Collaborative on Workforce & Disability for Youth (NCWD/Youth) by Amy Katzel
Excerpt:
All students, with or without disabilities, have different strengths and weaknesses. Early on, it was clear to me that I had a wide range of abilities in the room. Some students started out unable to consistently construct full sentences, while others were already writing complex prose. Some students raised their hand frequently to answer questions, while others preferred to stay quiet. When we did reading assignments during class, everyone read at different speeds. Some youth demonstrated they understood the material on quizzes, but then struggled with applying those concepts to their essays.
When I get up in front of the class, to which student am I teaching?
Also see:
- Leading Project-Based Learning / Universal Design for Learning
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL): What it is and Why You Should Care — from ISTE.org