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| | Interview with Anya Kamenetz
| | The current model of higher education in the U.S. is deeply flawed and unsustainable, says journalist Anya Kamenetz, in her new book DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education. Kamenetz's critique is both economic and social, encompassing such topics as the cost of tuition and textbooks, loan-based financial aid, admissions patterns, and the deteriorated job market.
| 2010-09-04 11:00pm | |
| | e-Learning Helps Women Survive Eclampsia
| | Between 300,000 and 500,000 women die each year from problems related to pregnancy. Ninety-nine percent of these deaths, which are often preventable, occur in developing countries. One of the leading causes of maternal death in the developing world is pre-eclampsia, a pregnancy condition that is characterized by high blood pressure and protein in the urine. In an effort to drastically reduce cases of pre-eclampsia, Italy-based Giunti Labs is helping the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and the Oxford Maternal & Perinatal Health Institute (Green Templeton College) at the University of Oxford in the U.K. develop educational material on maternal health for midwives, nurses, and doctors in developing countries, notably India, Mexico, and Nigeria. The material, delivered via e-learning, focuses on pre-eclampsia.
| 2010-09-04 11:00pm | |
| | chmod 777 education
| | In 2005, a few months after Tim O'Reilly crafted the term Web 2.0 and the discussion about Web 1.0 versus Web 2.0 emerged, IBM's James Snell wrote a short post explaining his view about the Web 2.0 concept. He used a brief Unix/Linux command -- chmod 777 Web -- to convey the message that Web 2.0 is all about granting users full-access privileges to the Web. His thought-provoking comments got us thinking. What would happen if we executed a "chmod 777 education" command to provide openness to education?
| 2010-09-04 11:00pm | |
| | Review of 'Working Smarter: Informal Learning in the Cloud' by Jay Cross
| | Jay Cross's latest book, Working Smarter: Informal Learning in the Cloud, is his second title about informal learning. Acquiring knowledge through informal contacts and casual conversation, as Cross indicates, is as old as the campfire. However, the rise of social networking technology and Web 2.0 tools have worked as a force multiplier, greatly enhancing the power of people to acquire knowledge.
| 2010-09-04 10:00pm | |
| | Making Education (Double) Count
| | Participatory activities that tap and foster social and emotional learning and new media literacies enrich student learning, boost physical wellness, and support social functioning. Skeptics dismiss social and emotional learning as being too "touchy-feely," but empirical research has found that they can help lead to holistic health and achievement. Author Laurel Felt, a doctoral student, is staunchly committed to social change. Informed by her background in social policy, developmental psychology, and multimedia curriculum design and instruction, she is currently working for Senegal's African Health Education Network (RAES) to help leverage entertainment-education to foster young people's education and well-being.
| 2010-09-04 10:00pm | |
| | Interview with Jessy Keiser
| | Jessy Keiser is an organization development professional whose career path lead her to teach for the University of Phoenix, the for-profit learning institution best known for its online presence and open-enrollment policy. In this interview, she spoke about how she came to teach at Phoenix, what kind of training and assessment was required, and some of the pros and cons of its system.
| 2010-09-04 10:00pm | |
| | | Using Digital Storytelling for Creative and Innovative e-Learning
| | This article discusses how creativity and innovation can be enhanced with e-learning systems based on digital storytelling. A story creation model called movement-oriented design (MOD) is introduced for systematically developing effective digital stories, in conjunction with story creation principles articulated by Robert McKee, a Hollywood guru of script writing.
| 2010-09-04 07:00pm | |
| | What I Learned from Teaching Adult Learners Online
| | Being asked to teach an online course when you are inexperienced with distance education can be daunting. Denise A. Blake of Shenandoah University reflects on her personal experience with e-learning, which started just in this way. She shares what she learned about online learners, particularly adult students, and what instructors should be doing to meet their needs.
| 2010-09-04 06:00pm | |
| | Book Review: Learning in Real Time by Jonathan Finkelstein
| | Jonathan Finkelstein says there are certain learning objectives that cannot be met without real human interaction. To remove live interaction from the learning environment is to remove the lifeblood of learning. This is why asynchronous online training solutions sometimes fall short. But when the asynchronous and the synchronous are combined in a synergistic way, the results can be highly effective.
| 2010-09-04 04:00pm | |
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