Posts on ‘January 1st, 2009’

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• Mahara/Training Workshop 1 - WikiEducator
• Free Technology for Teachers: 47 Alternatives to Using YouTube in the Classroom
• The Open Source Wiki - SWiK

  "SWiK is a community driven resource for open source software. SWiK contains information and news about thousands of open source projects and people are constantly adding cool new stuff to make SWiK your one-stop resource for open source project information."

• Slashdot Book Reviews Story | Mahara 1.2 EPortfolios
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• Instructional Design for Sociocultural Learning Environments

  "To meet the goal of “preparing people for an ever-changing world”, instructional programs need to apply strategies that focus on the development of critical thinking, problem solving, research, and lifelong learning. Those goals require a sociocultural approach to instruction emphasizing learning from experience and discourse. Sociocultural instructional designers question the applicability of traditional ID models because their molecular approach focuses on controlling the learner and environment, which often leads to inert knowledge. This article develops a sociocultural ID model and compares views of learning, roles of learners and teachers, instructional strategies, and the use of tools with the traditional ID approach."

• University e-learning systems: the need for new product and process models and some examples « The Weblog of (a) David Jones
• How Informal Learning Networks Can Transform Education

  keynote presentation by Alec Couros

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• Moodle, Ip-stud oder Ilias: Bildung per Podcast - n-tv.de

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