Internet Technologies for Learning
Sunday, November 30, 2003
SV ISPI - The Networker - Article Archive: "Using Learning Objects in Four Instructional Architectures"
National Learning Infrastructure Initiative:
"Learning objects are digital resources, modular in nature, that are used to support learning. They include, but are not limited to, simulations, electronic calculators, animations, tutorials, text entries, Web sites, bibliographies, audio and video clips, quizzes, photographs, illustrations, diagrams, graphs, maps, charts, and assessments. They vary in size, scope, and level of granularity ranging from a small chunk of instruction to a series of resources combined to provide a more complex learning experience. "
More Information on Repurposeable Learning Objects: "This page is a collection of resources on Repurposeable Learning Objects."
NLII:
"Learning objects are an emerging NLII theme because their use has the potential 'to provide learning customized for each specific learner at a specific time, taking into account, their learning styles, experience, knowledge and learning goals' (Schatz, 2000). In addition, learning objects may 'offer great value in terms of saving time and money in course development, increasing the reusability of content, enhancing students' learning environment, sharing knowledge within and across disciplines, and engaging faculty in a dynamic community of practice' (Metros, 2001). "
About CLI Virtuoso :: Cisco Learning Institute:
"CLI Virtuoso is an innovative e-learning platform encompassing three modular components for authoring, delivering and managing dynamic, Web-accessible learning content. CLI Virtuoso is designed to provide a complete, scalable, Web-based, e-learning platform with focus on collaboration, interactivity and personalized feedback for organization-wide e-learning. CLI Virtuoso provides for customization of Web-delivered styles and appearance. It is fully theme-driven, allowing your organization or institution to customize the look and feel of the user interface. "
Saturday, November 29, 2003
IEEE Approves Standard for Learning Content Communication:
"The standard, IEEE 1484.11.2(TM), 'Standard for Learning Technology, ECMAScript Application Programming Interface for Content to Runtime Services Communication,' provides an ECMAScript (more commonly known as JavaScript) application programming interface (API) that enables digital learning content to obtain a learner's name, preferences and other information from a learning platform and enables a platform to receive relevant information, such as test scores and time spent on task, from the content. The API is part of the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) and was first developed by the Aviation Industry CBT Committee (AICC)."
Knowledge Director:
"learningDIRECTOR is a unique, off-the-shelf, web-based content development tool that allows you to create rich media content for a high user experience at the click of a mouse.
learningDIRECTOR automatically generates flash-based files and allows you to produce highly interactive and visually engaging content, without having to spend time learning specialist programming knowledge such as HTML or Flash."
E-Learning Competency Centre: "View Points of ECC - by Ms. Ong Peik Ying, Technical Consultant, ECC
Authorware Learning Object Content Packager
Learning objects are a new way of thinking about learning content. These learning contents are broken down into small chunks that can be reused in various learning environments, following the object-oriented programming approach."
E-Learning Competency Centre: "View Points of ECC - by Ms. Ong Peik Ying, Technical Consultant, ECC
Cisco's RLO Strategy
Cisco has recently come out with Version 4.5 of their Cisco's RLO strategy. This improved strategy document includes a more refined strategy, definition, implementation, and use of learning objects."
Sidebars: Inside Out
Published by the Learning Resources Unit of the British Columbia Institute of Technology to support and recognize innovative practice in distributed learning at BCIT, and in the greater educational community.
Thursday, November 27, 2003
Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN):
"The Generic Centre e-learning guides are the first fully comprehensive guides on e-learning aimed at specific audiences within UK higher education. They address issues that are key to senior managers, teachers, support staff, learning technologists, heads of department and students, but the same message emerges from all: e-learning is learning, providing us with useful tools not only to deliver an enhanced learning and teaching experience, but also to push the boundaries of learning and teaching through creative use of technology. "
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Visual Communication (TM 920):What Is Visual Communication?: "What Is Visual Communication?
Visual communication explores the use of graphical components in achieving communication goals. Visual communication has both critical and practical parts. The critical part is known as visual rhetoric, which explores the way that designers use visual elements to influence audiences.
The practical part of visual communication has three areas of focus:
Using a pictures, icons, and symbols to express ideas
Applying principles of graphic design and usability to prepare screens and pages so readers can quickly find information of interest, and comprehend the most information from them
Producing online and printed content so that it matches the design plans.
Visual communication becomes increasingly important as the computers, television, and film become the primary media of communication. Each of these is primarily a visual medium, in which messages are communicated through pictures. Words support the communication of those images.
The growing recognition of the visual component in communication, first explored by advertising but now used in all branches of communication, has led to a shift in professional corporate communication from only writing to information design, which explores how content selection, writing and visual communication integrate into a coherent whole."
Document Design: "Document Design is a platform for researchers and practitioners in organizational communication. The focus is on the internal and external communication of medium sized to multinational corporations, governmental bodies, non-profit organisations, as well as media, health care, educational and legal institutions, etc."
Consumer WebWatch: How Consumers and Experts Rate Credibility on the Web: "How Do People Evaluate a Web Site's Credibility?
Results from a Large Study"
IAwiki: Shape Of Information:
"The concept of shape assumes that an information space of any size has both spatial and semantic characteristics. That is, as well as identifying placement and layout, users directly recognize and respond to content and meaning. Routinely in our lab, users describe what they remember from an interaction in digital space or draw their interpretation of the information space's form and layout. These data clearly point to the intercoupling of spatial and semantic components of memory. "
BogieLand Nov. 2003 - The Document Triangle:
"Every paper and digital document shares three basic dimensions: structure, information and presentation. Although these dimensions are always interwoven, some people in the digital world mostly focus on document structures (e.g. information architects), some on the information they contain (e.g. marketers and writers/editors) while others specialize in the (interactive) presentation aspects (e.g. visual designers and Flash developers). The mutual dependence and interaction of these dimensions is the next level of design and does not regularly get the proper attention. In order to better understand the relationship between these dimensions, let us look at each of them seperately, and how they inter-relate."
InformIT.com : Design & Creative Media > Web Design: "Web Design Reference Guide
Your Host Meryl Evans"
Wired 11.09: PowerPoint Is Evil: "The practical conclusions are clear. PowerPoint is a competent slide manager and projector. But rather than supplementing a presentation, it has become a substitute for it. Such misuse ignores the most important rule of speaking: Respect your audience."
Monday, November 10, 2003
Promoting Faculty Adoption of Technology at Wake Forest University: "CELI attempted to promote innovative instruction in three ways: by sponsoring field trips on which WFU faculty members visited other campuses to observe technology use; by inviting guest speakers to WFU to discuss what their institutions were doing with technology; and by awarding release-time grants to faculty members who wished to pursue the use of technology in their teaching."
Promoting Faculty Adoption of Technology at Wake Forest University: "The main focus of the CELI initiative was the release-time grants, which allowed WFU faculty members to reduce their teaching responsibilities by one course for one semester in order to explore and design computer-enhanced learning materials. Grant recipients were required to participate in a series of luncheon meetings to discuss the progress of their projects. At the end of the semester, they also were required to make presentations at a technology fair that provided a public forum for the projects."
CELI Program: "CELI is a faculty-based initiative charged with developing effective uses of computers in instruction. "
Promoting Faculty Adoption of Technology at Wake Forest University: "WFU has tried and continues to use different approaches to promote faculty adoption of technology. There is no magic bullet that is 100% effective, but each approach has had some success because it met a faculty need—the need for a readily available technical advisor, for money and release time to complete special projects, or for a partner committed to exploring and implementing technology tools in the classroom. Regardless of what program or initiative is in place, it is important to remember that when faculty members see their colleagues using technology, they become more open to trying new things. It is our hope that the Wake Forest experience will inspire others to seek the right combination of funding and institution-specific programming to maximize faculty willingness to use technology."
Friday, November 07, 2003
LTI Magazine - What Keeps Universities from Embracing e-Learning?: "Much of the focus in e-learning today--from analysts, industry observers, consultants, and technologists--is on e-learning in the corporate world. But the biggest impact and opportunity for e-learning may ultimately be in education. Most governments want to raise the skills and education level of its population, but to date e-learning has had little impact in this area."
LTI Magazine - E-Learning Solutions: "HunterStone, an e-learning and IT tools provider for Microsoft environments, introduced THESIS 2.0, an e-learning application that creates and deploys SCORM-conforming learning content. THESIS 2.0's user interface integrates into Microsoft Office for Word and PowerPoint and manages Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 data. THESIS helps corporate, education, and government agencies create e-learning objects that users can access and reuse across any SCORM-conformant learning management system. "
Wednesday, November 05, 2003
Oscail - National Distance Education Centre: "THE PICTURE PROJECT (Perceptions of ICT Use in Remote Education)"
Project1: "The EMILE project methodology is based on the observation and analysis of educational uses of ICT which take place in regular institutional contexts in primary and secondary schools of the different European countries or regions involved in the project: France, Scotland, Greece, Sardinia, Hungary, Norway. "
InformationWeek > E-Learning > E-Learning On The Fly > November 3, 2003: "'In the future, learning will be more on-demand and embedded in the workflow' of processes, says Teresa Golden, VP of marketing and strategy for IBM Learning solutions. "
InformationWeek > E-Learning > E-Learning On The Fly > November 3, 2003: "
IBM is prototyping mobile E-learning solutions for customers in industries such as retail and fast-food restaurants that can provide on-the-fly, on-the-go training with bite-sized content for employees. "
Monday, November 03, 2003
New Horizons for Learning: Teaching and Learning Strategies: "When students doodle on their papers or draw while listening, it seems they aren't paying attention. However, for many learners, creating images can become a powerful tool for recording ideas and making meaning of what they hear in class. Rather than thwarting this impulse, we can build upon it. Systems for using color, images, drawings, cartoons and symbols as well as words and phrases for recording ideas is now used by many educators as well as business and community leaders. I will use the term mindscape here to refer to these visual maps. The same system works well for communicating ideas to others. The process encourages students to be aware of the meaning of what they are recording as well as the relationships among ideas."
Sunday, November 02, 2003
