Become a chief meta-learning officer | Chief Learning Officer
The May issue of Chief Learning Officer magazine went online today. Inside the covers, you’ll find a major article by Clark Quinn and yours truly entitled Become a Chief Meta-Learning Officer.
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Investing In Flexible Learning Spaces: A Strategic Guide | Tidebreak
This paper is designed to help academic institutions develop best practices for designing flexible spaces. It begins by discussing critical design considerations that should be factored into strategic planning efforts. It then goes on to analyze several specific design challenges, identifying the most cost-effective solutions for flexible learning spaces that encourage intellectual innovation.
Nine Reasons to Twitter in Schools | Tech & Learning
1. Together we’re better
2. Global or local: you choose
3. Self-awareness and reflective practice
4. Ideas workshop and sounding board
5. Newsroom and innovation showcase
6. Professional development and critical friends
iPhones go to front of the class at Texas university – Network World
When almost 1,000 freshman students showed up at Abilene Christian University on Aug. 16, they got something more than the usual medical release forms, parking permits and Welcome Week t-shirts. They got a choice of a brand-spanking-new Apple iPhone 3G or iPod Touch, plus a package of ACU-written Web applications to use on them. (Watch a slideshow of the coolest iPhone apps.)
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The End in Mind ” An Open (Institutional) Learning Network | The End in Mind
“I’ve been noodling on the architecture of an open learning network for some time now. I’m making a presentation to my boss today on the subject and I think I have something worth sharing. (Nothing like a high-profile presentation to force some clarity of thought.)”
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U Michigan Rolls Out Laptop-Based Interactive Teaching Tool | Campus Technology
The University of Michigan will soon make a new interactive classroom response system available to faculty–one that was developed in house and uses laptops in place of classroom clickers. The system, dubbed LectureTools, was developed by Perry Samson, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences for use in a large lecture class, Extreme Weather. According to the university, it was also piloted in four other classes last semester. And it will soon be available to faculty at large through U Michigan’s CTools portal.
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5 Ways to Ruin Your Next Presentation
I found this article right on the money… These tips have a lot of application to when developing Rapid eLearning courses. Don’t do it half-assed, take a few extra minutes and really make it engaging, not “death by PowerPoint”.
(tags: eLearning RapideLearning Presentation PowerPoint)
Are Your E-Learning Courses Pushed or Pulled? | The Rapid eLearning Blog
Here’s the challenge for many of us. We want to make our courses engaging and interactive, yet sometimes the content or the time pressures of work don’t make that easy. The default position for many elearning courses is to merely push the information out to the learners. The end result is that the course is heavy on information and light on interaction. By changing the way you structure the information, you can quickly build the framework for more engaging and interactive courses. It’s just a matter of rethinking how you approach the course design.
(tags: eLearning RapideLearning)
Digital Flashcards: matching, hangman, crossword, word search, word scramble | Study Stack
