Technologies for Learning, Thinking and Collaborating
http://blogoehlert.typepad.com/eclippings/
2003/11/research_slides.html
Last month I posted a note that Mark Oehlert was asking folks interested in elearning on where they see the field going. I know at least one person took the opportunity to respond 😉
Mark presented his findings at the TechLearn 2003 conference. He shares the slides, the executive summary and a draft of the final full report. – SWL
Continue reading “Report on the ‘Future of elearning’ survey”
http://www.edtechpost.ca/blogtalk_archive/
Prompted by Alan’s generous references in his latest Blogshop to last month’s B.C. Educational Technology User’s Group online ‘blogtalk’ and his links to materials there that will soon disappear when I disable the Typepad account, I’ve posted an archived version of the site here.
Until someone tells me to take it down, this is probably the better spot to link to if you want to refer to any of that material. Note this is not all *my* material – I’m just hosting the archives, but if you link to any of the materials please make an effort to find out who the original author of the piece you are linking to was and credit them directly.
Continue reading “Archive of ETUG BLogtalk Typepad site”
http://www.wfu.edu/organizations/CIT/docs/
ACS_Career_Ladder.htm
(Last one today, I promise) From Wake Forest comes this “three-tiered career path” which seeks to distinguish the job duties of instructional technology specialists, instructional technology consultants, and instructional technology analysts. I’ve posted before on other elearning job models and it’s just nice to have this as an additional reference. – SWL
http://www.netfuture.org/2003/Oct3003_151.html
There’s no one I am currently reading on a regular basis that engages issues fundamental to the role of technology in our society and thinking as deeply as Steve Talbott, and today he sent out the latest issue of his NetFuture newsletter. Though not an educational technology article, I would highlight his longish essay “The Vanishing World-Machine” as worth reading. I’m not sure if I could summarize it briefly. If I were to try, it would be something along the lines that we have failed to recognize that mathematics and other scientific ‘languages’ are abstractions that are not the same as the mediums they describe. By not recognizing that the machines we build to ‘analyze’ nature are themselves reifying these abstractions, the scientific endeavor becomes progressively more blind to the actual world it claims to portend. If the argument sounds facile, it’s not, it’s that my synopsis does it no real justice. – SWL
http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/community/elearning.pdf
As the authors state early on, this wide-ranging report from the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) on the relationship between academic libraries and elearning in higher education is not just for librarians. It focuses topics such as the role of libraries towards learning objects and object repositories, how libraries need to interact and interroperate with course management systems, and what the libraries role should be in relation to the institutions content and knowledge management needs. Well worth the read. – SWL
– via [ResourceShelf]
http://www.mcgill.ca/dp-cio/portal-selection/
This is a great example of what a website to facilitate an institution-wide IT selection process should look like if you want to create as much transparency as possible. Nice looking site too. – SWL
– via [Shoulder to the Wheel]
http://demo.weboutliner.com/weboutliner/
This was just too cool not to post on – a web-based outliner that produces OPML files.
I have been a long-time fan of outlining software ever since I was first introduced to MORE on the Mac, way back in the day. It was actually one of the things that made me adopt Radio as a blogging tool at first (Dave Winer was also involved heavily with MORE, and Radio has a built-in outliner). As regular readers will know I finally ditched Radio as a blogging tool, but now miss having the outlining capabilities. Well here you go. Hooray! – SWL
http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?
A2=ind9803&L=itforum&P=R587&m=2140
Digging back through the ITFORUM mailing list archives for that last post brought me across this gem by Lloyd Rieber of The University of Georgia. It was originally delivered as the 1998 Peter Dean Lecture, but I’m linking to this version because of all of the interesting discussion on the mailing list it generated. – SWL
http://thejuniverse.blogs.com/afterhours/
2003/10/surviving_cours.html
June Lester is a mathematician and an educator, and one of the people brave enough to help facilitate the ‘blogtalk’ we tried over the last few weeks. She’s posted a great piece on the frustration a ‘SME’ can feel in the so-called ‘course-development wars.’ She’s right of course – subject matter experts in education have also often taught the material before and understand quite well how to communicate it’s intricacies, and treating them solely as providers of content will almost certainly produce a lesser learning experience (as well as antagonize them.) …
Continue reading “June Lester on the ‘SME’s Viewpoint’”
http://www.xplana.com/articles/archives/course_dev_wars
This piece by Susan Smith Nash on Xplana made me laugh. I wonder if anyone working in online instructional development in post-secondary *hasn’t* experienced this kind of situation…
Continue reading “More thoughts on ‘Surviving Course Development Wars’”