Internet Technologies for Learning
Friday, January 16, 2004
::eduCATE2004@unimas:::
"EduCATE will be a triennial international educational conference hosted by Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS).
EduCATE will focus on:
1 promoting Creative and Critical thinking in teachers and students in the teaching and learning process
2 ensuring teachers and students are equipped with skills and knowledge to Adapt to the changing environment
3 integrating Technology in teaching and learning environment
4 encouraging practices which lead to Excellence in education
For the inaugural conference, EduCATE 2004 will be organized by the Faculty of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development (UNIMAS) in collaboration with the Teacher Education Division (Ministry of Education Malaysia)."
IHMC Concept Map Software:
"Concept maps are tools for organizing and representing knowledge. They include concepts, usually enclosed in circles or boxes of some type, and relationships between concepts or propositions, indicated by a connecting line between two concepts. Words on the line specify the relationship between the two concepts. We define concept as a perceived regularity in events or objects, or records of events or objects, designated by a label. The label for most concepts is a word, although sometimes we use symbols such as + or %. Propositions are statements about some object or event in the universe, either naturally occurring or constructed. Propositions contain two or more concepts connected with other words to form a meaningful statement. "
Academic Technology - Publications - Current Online Edition:
"Digital Knowledge Sharing through Concept Maps
Creating instructional tools that connect concept maps to digital library repositories is becoming increasingly popular in academia. Academic Technology (AT) just received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a concept mapping tool called the Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) that will provide a visual interface to gather and organize Tufts digital library information into learning content maps. "
Learning Objects for Introductory Programming:
"These learning objects have been developed at London Metropolitan University by staff in the Learning Technology Research Institute (LTRI) and Department for Computing, Communications Technology & Mathematics, and at Bolton Institute. Their development has been supported by the LTSN centre for Information and Computer Science"
Innovations in Teaching And Learning in Information and Computer Sciences:
"Welcome to the first issue of a re-launched ITALICS! We are going quarterly, and, as a consequence of this, editorials (not this one alas) will be more than just a summary of the papers in the journal issue. Journals need to develop a special character, a viewpoint on, a relationship with, the topic they cover, and an essential element of this character building are editorials."
World Internet Project:
" The originators of this project believe that the Internet (in whatever distribution system: PC, television, wireless or some yet to be developed system) will transform our social, political and economic lives. We further believe that the influence and importance of the Internet will dwarf that of the most important cultural influence of the past 50 years: television. Potentially the Internet represents change on the order of the industrial revolution or the printing press. Believing this, our Internet Project is designed to get in on the ground floor of that change and to watch and document what happens as households and nations acquire and use the Internet. "
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Ramana Rao's Information Flow:
"The purpose of this site is to share articles, talks, and thoughts on a topic I call Information Flow. Roughly, it's about getting value from the piles of electronic stuff on computers and networks. I publish a monthly newsletter on the topic. And pretty much my entire professional career has been devoted to it. Information Flow is about intelligent approaches to information access that make people, organizations, and society more productive and more creative"
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Microsoft eLearning Library Version 2: Demo Version:
"The Microsoft eLearning Library Version 2 (MELL 2) can help you maximize your Microsoft software investment by providing cost-effective, in-depth training solutions and quality reference resources that address the unique training needs of both corporate customers and educators while helping reduce support costs. Watch an online demonstration of MELL 2 for business users or educators, and preview the electronic training and reference resources that can help your organization or institution make the most of Microsoft software and technologies. "
Welcome to NBOR
We all know the frustrations of working on a computer. To accomplish different tasks, you need an array of programs, all with their own tools and lots of rules and protocols. To learn how to use them, you either call a friend or hit those dreaded instruction manuals. And we've all experienced what happens when we get a software upgrade and we're back to square one.
But what if there really is a better way? What if something really has come along that could truly improve the way you work with your computer in a highly meaningful way? We're not asking you to merely believe our words.
contents @ the informal education homepage
infed is an independent, not-for-profit site exploring informal education and lifelong learning [about us].
Sunday, January 11, 2004
ALT-C 2004: Blue skies and pragmatism - learning technologies for the next decade
Threads include:
- technical infrastructures;
- knowledge management, standards and semantics;
- new technologies for learning, including wireless, ambient, smart and other forms of technologies, media and communications;
- tools and strategies for effective use of technologies;
- pedagogy and the social implications of the new forms of communication;
- organisational, strategic and management issues;
- evidence-based research and evaluation;
- accessibility and inclusion.
e-Learning Cybrary:
"The e-Learning Cybrary is an ontology-based collection of annotated links to e-learning sites, news, documents, portals, and other e-learning resources available on the web. It's part of the e-Learning Resource Center project, serving the needs of organizations who joined the 'e-Learning Expedition' of the European Foundation for Management (EFMD) Development, designed by Community Intelligence Labs (CoIL). It's a collaborative, work-in-progress project of creating a dynamic knowledge repository, offered to the global e-learning and management development communities by EFMD and CoIL. "
AEN Conference 2003:
"Asia e-Learning Network Conference 2003 and Working Group Meeting"
Papers available for download including David's country report on Malaysia.
17th AAOU Annual Conference
This conference site has papers available for download. The theme is Networking and Partnership for Strengthening Collaboration in Open and Distance Education.
E-learning Conferences Worldwide Upcoming events in internet-based education, educational technology and related fields
Keep yourself updated on e-learning conferences!
Friday, January 09, 2004
IMSA 21st Century Information Fluency Portal - What is 21st Century Information Fluency:
"What is 21st Century Information Fluency?
Describing human abilities is never easy. Brief, dictionary definitions are useful, of course. Basic “literacy” is defined as “the ability to read and write.” But anyone who has ever tried to teach someone how to read or to learn for themselves knows that the devil is in the details. The literature defining and describing “literacy” is already voluminous and there is no end in sight.
Likewise, Information Literacy can be defined as “the ability to locate, evaluate and use information.” And there is a voluminous literature describing in detail what that means in both theory and practice. 21st Century Information Fluency is a sub-set of Information Literacy that might best be described as a combination of aspects of Information Literacy and Technology Literacy that people need to locate, evaluate and use digital information resources efficiently and effectively. We call it “fluency” rather than “literacy” to emphasize that the abilities involved are more than basic abilities. But we know that there is a spectrum of abilities ranging from basic literacy to the more advanced levels we call fluency."
PILOTed Newsletters:
"PILOTed is a monthly newsletter on online learning. If you are interested in receiving the newsletter or writing an article, send an email to mitch.weisburgh@pilotonlinelearning.com."
The Journal of Literacy and Technology
JLT is an online journal for teachers which explores the complex relationship between literacy and technology in educational, workplace, public, and individual spheres. Articles span from the historical to the cutting-edge, from scholarship to theory to practice. JLT provides a free, accessible forum for all interested parties to explore and debate these issues with the goal of making ideologies and assumptions apparent and considering possibilities and alternatives.
Literacy and Computer Literacy: Analyzing the NRC's Being Fluent with Information Technology:
"This paper will discuss the NRC report in light of current thinking regarding literacy and computer literacy.
The authors use the term fluency rather than literacy, giving the following brief explanation, which this paper will discuss later:
Generally, computer literacy has acquired a skills connotation, implying competency with a few of today’s computer applications, such as word processing and email. Literacy is too modest a goal in the presence of rapid change, because it lacks the necessary staying power. As the technology changes by leaps and bounds, existing skills become antiquated and there is no migration path to new skills. . . . To adapt to changes in the technology . . . involves learning sufficient foundational material to enable one to acquire new skills independently after one’s formal education is complete. This requirement of a deeper understanding than is implied by the rudimentary term computer literacy motivated the committee to adopt fluency as a term connoting a higher level of competency. (NRC, 1999, p. 2)
The committee also decided not to argue that information technology fluency was required of everyone, but to focus instead on college graduates, whom it equated with “individuals who want to be able to use information technology effectively” (p. viii).
Fluency with information technology, the report concludes, requires three types of knowledge: contemporary skills, foundational concepts, and intellectual capabilities (p 2). Details of these three areas are in table 1."
Tuesday, January 06, 2004
e-Learning Centre's Guide to e-Learning:
About this Guide
"This Guide provides an introduction to e-learning: what it is and what it looks like. It comprises short, one-page summaries of e-learning topics, with links to key external resources (articles, examples, etc). This Guide is a dynamic document; it is updated on a regular basis - see the dates beside the pages."
This is an interesting guide that includes the author's comments and compilation of other web resources.
Friday, January 02, 2004
DEOS:
"The Distance Education Online Symposium (DEOS) was established in 1991 with a mission to disseminate distance education information more quickly and less formally than was possible in a print publication. The symposium initially comprised DEOS-L and DEOSNEWS."
A productive forum with summary.
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration
This online journal has many relevant articles which are useful for the college.
Morten Flate Paulsen - Academia:
"I'm Doctor of Education from the Pennsylvania State University, Department of Adult Education and Instructional Systems in 1998, and
Master of Science in Engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (The University of Trondheim), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1980. I was appointed Adjunct Professor, at the Athabasca University, Centre for Distance Education in 1999. In 2003, I was re-appointed Adjunct Professor for a new three year period."
His website has many links to his artciles and other pnline resources.
Online Education and Learning Management Systems:
"This book is intended for an international audience with an interest in education and the Internet. It will be of special value to students, teachers, course designers, administrators, decision makers and educational officers in public and private sectors. The book discusses major developments in online education, and provides illustrating examples from the author's Scandinavian and international research. It includes articles outlining a theory of online education, teaching techniques, learning management systems, recommendations for decision makers and terminology. "
This is an interesting book which should be in print by now - Nov 2003
