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• Introducing XPERT the Xerte Public E-Learning Repository

  
  RSC NewsFeed — Authority: 475
      To begin at the beginning, as someone once said…. Xerte is a suite of tools designed (at the University of Nottingham)to allow you to rapidly create online learning objects. Without writing any fancy code you can use Xerte to integrate text, graphics, animations, sounds and video, create simple ...
  8 hours ago

• P2P Assessment and Accreditation

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Philipp Schmidt, Christine Geith, Stian Håklev and Joel Thierstein have published an article on peer-to-peer assessment in the latest issue of IRRODL . From the abstract: This paper makes the case for a peer-based method of assessment and recognition as a feasible option for accreditation purposes. The peer-based ...
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• 6th Annual Michigan Online Learning Symposium

  
  Virtual High School Meanderings — Authority: 435
  Jamey Fitzpatrick from Michigan Virtual sent me this late last week.Michael,I hope things are going well for you.  I would like to invite you to attend the 2009 MVU Online Learning Symposium: Connecting with Youth in a Media-rich World, being held on December 2nd.  This year’s Symposium will explore how young ...
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• Final Reminder: Virtual Schooling Blog Carnival – Call For Submissions

  
  Virtual High School Meanderings — Authority: 435
  A final reminder… The call for the November Blog Carnival edition reads:virtual schooling – http://blogcarnival.com/bc/eprof_26744.htmlDescription – This is a carnival that is focused upon the use of online learning and distance at the K-12 level. Please submit items that are related to the field of K-12 ...
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• Study evaluates hybrid courses

  
  The CITE — Authority: 128
  South Texas College has released new data that suggests that student success and retention rates are higher in hybrid courses (a combination of face-to-face learning and online learning) than in traditional or distance education courses. In July, the U.S. Department of Education released the results of a ...
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• The Library & The CMS: a wish list

  
  The Ubiquitous Librarian (Brian Mathews) — Authority: 91
  I’m really excited about the relationship that is forming between the Library and our Course Management System folks. UCSB is adopting Moodle and there is a lot of momentum gathering. The Library has been invited to be development partners but also to help with assessment as well. Here are my quick and dirty notes ...
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• Distance Learning Makes College Degree Easy

  
  College Education — Authority: 133
  Education %requireed% to get into into your aspiring career can also be reached by the degrees conducted by the distance learning colleges. It is sad to say that people regularly uncover themselves trailing those careers which are regularly very average with respect to their talents. The factors in selecting the ...
  2 days ago

• The Shifting Landscape: Enrollments and Quality Learning in Higher Ed

  
  21st Century Teaching and Learning — Authority: 106
  This post is in response to a comment left on my last post, "Online Learning: Pay it Forward" by Barry. Barry, I found your comment intriguing in many ways and it touched on a lot of ideas that have been on my mind lately about higher ed: competition in higher ed enrollments, the need for quality learning across the ...
  2 days ago

• Bertice Berry Capella University March 2009 Commencement Speech Excerpt

  
  Online Computer Science Degree 360 — Authority: 151
  Sociologist and award-winning lecturer Bertice Berry gave the keynote address to more than 550 students who graduated from Capella University (www.capella.edu) on Saturday, Mar. 14, at the Times Union Performing Arts Center Moran Theater in Jacksonville, FL. It was the online universitys 16th commencement ceremony. ...
  3 days ago

• P2PU Minus Copyright

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Leigh Blackall has a new post giving feedback to Peer-2-Peer University with regards to copyright. Blackall suggests that avoid any trappings of copyright and focus on sharing. From the post: P2PU wants to be a network, made up of individual action and responsibility. As such P2PU should not impose a particular ...
  3 days ago

• Distance Education For Military Personnel

  
  My Prosperous World — Authority: 152
  People who are employed with the military and are out on duty can further their education through an army distance learning program. Sometimes members of the military wish to have a different choice of career when their term of service ends with the army, and may be unable to attend a regular college or university as ...
  3 days ago

• Continuing Education and Social Networking Combine to Attract …

  
  New Web 2.0 Magazine — Authority: 453
  Epsilen, another e-learning platform built around social networking , just announced a partnership with SunGard Higher Education to draw on student information in a similar way. The Epsilen environment also lets faculty members use ...
  4 days ago

• 2009 MILE Guide: Milestones for Improving Learning & Education

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 548
  Just released, a guide to 21st century skills ( PDF download ). The core themes are "civic literacy, financial literacy, entrepreneurial literacy, health literacy and environmental literacy." Then there are learning and innovation skills, like creativity and Innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, and ...
  4 days ago

• Campus Technology article: Students Unimpressed with Faculty Use of Ed Tech

  
  cac.ophony.org — Authority: 118
  Eva Fernández of Queens College recently shared this interesting article with us on Facebook. I thought it might be of interest to many of you. It’s funny that I am forwarding this as it is almost like the article virtually traveled across the ocean and back! Perhaps it’s generational, as Eva also wonders. I ...
  4 days ago

• Education innovations overseas

  
  Clayton Christensen — Authority: 106
  Areas of nonconsumption are often the most promising places to look for disruptive innovations. What’s hard about looking for these places is that, by their definition, there is no market and no data yet. As I’ve written before, nowhere is there more nonconsumption in education than in the developing world. As ...
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• The E-Learning List

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 548
  Janet Clarey reports, " The e-learning list is the marketplace for e-learning services and solutions. Its a directory of 283 e-learning companies of off-the-shelf courseware, LMSs, bespoke development, and authoring tools." I wouldnt take the voting system too seriously - anyone can vote, and if you know a little ...
  5 days ago

• Aussie school tries to liberate teen brains

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 548
  By liberating teens, rather than constraining them, writes this author, a pilot project in Australia is geared to the strengths of the teen brain, rather than the weaknesses. "The traditional school struggles to box in the vast adolescent energy and bend it to function on adult terms for adult goals. In traditional ...
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• IL2009: E-Learning Trends & Tools

  
  Library Trainer — Authority: 108
  This session began with Frank Cervone talking about the trends in e-learning and I followed with a brief bit about tools for e-learning. The take away for my piece was that it really doesn’t matter what tools you use for learning–it’s how you use them. I really wanted to challenge people to think about ...
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• Free Video Tutorial Series – Web Traffic Secrets

  
  The Teaching Box — Authority: 103
  I am starting a new video tutorial series.  It is called Web Traffic Secrets.  In this series you will learn techniques that will help you increase the number of visitors to your website or Blog. As with my other offerings, these videos are flash based and the links will open in a new window. Video 1 – What ...
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• Open Access Conference in Ghana

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  The Ghana News Agency is reporting on an open access conference in Ghana. The conference focused on using emerging infrastructure to share knowledge. From the article: “We must see research education networks as a vital component in Africa’s ICT engine of growth.”
  5 days ago

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