Go beyond enhancing an idea or a lesson—transform your students’ learning with a tool called ThingLink. ThingLink engages your students and drives curiosity and discovery—and it’s free. It’s an image platform that converts an image into an interactive experience by letting you connect music, video, text, images, shops, and more from around the web.…
The Role of Values in Designing Learning Experiences
Where decision need to be made, values are present. Values play a signficant role in the design of courses and learning experiences. As a way to reflect upon this fact, I pulled out a few definitions of instructional design and began to explore the role of values. …
Pressure mounts as MOOCs force higher ed to rethink [Roscorla]
Pressure mounts as MOOCs force higher ed to rethink — from centerdigitaled.com by Tanya Roscorla
Excerpt:
As massively open online courses continue to gain traction, they’re proving a disruptive force in higher education.
The traditional emphasis on in-person classes has brought universities to a price point that does not look sustainable, said Adrian Sannier, senior vice president of product for Pearson eCollege.…
Class Central – a Free Online MOOC aggregator
See on Scoop.it – eLearning, Blended Learning and Mobile Learning
Class Central is a free online course aka MOOC aggregator from top universites like Stanford, MIT, Harvard, etc. offered via Coursera, Udacity, edX, & others
See on www.class-central.com
Antonio
The changes in the spanish law try to kill the integration, spanish teachers react with creativity.
Antonio es solo uno de los muchos ejemplos de integración que se dan en las escuelas españolas, si lo permitimos estos niños volverán a escuelas especiales para ellos y volverán a encerrarlos para que los demás no podamos disfrutar de ellos.…
Letting learners learn.
Letting learners learn.
Getting to grips with Twitter as I enhance my PLN
My Introduction
A few weeks ago, I signed up for ETMOOC – a Massive Online Open Course focusing on Educational Technology & Media. You can see all the individuals who are responsible for offering us this learning opportunity here. This course is an opportunity to learn about the basics of Connected Learning, Digital Storytelling, Digital Literacy, The Open Movement, and Digital Citizenship.…