Learning - Educational Technologies - Articles Archive
from June 3, 2014 to January 8, 2010
E-learning, workflow learning, just-in-time learning, virtual classrooms and the world of education at a distance. Educational technologies are the new frontier for ay instructional designer: Blogs, RSS, wikis, collaboration systems, e-learning tools, presentation software, simulation tools, real-time videoconferencing, online classrooms.
What are the key skills that, in an hypothetical situation where there were no schools as we know them today, I would deem essential for my son and daughters to learn in their youth?
By posing myself this question over and over, and by questioning traditional curriculums ...
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Robin Good - June 3, 2014
What are the key skills to be learned to live a successful life? If schools as we know them, were not there, what would I consider top critical skills to be learned for my kids?
In the previous parts of this guide I have expanded on Stephen ...
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Robin Good - May 20, 2014
Which are the critical life skills one really needs to learn to be able to live a successful and meaningful life?
Trying to answer this question has been the key driver of this multi-part guide designed to question our conservative assumption about what schooling should really be ...
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Robin Good - May 13, 2014
Which are the really important things that one needs to learn in order to survive and live a successful life on this planet?
Whether in Manhattan, lost in the jungle, on a remote island or on an extraterrestrial planet, what are the truly critical and life-supporting things ...
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Robin Good - May 6, 2014
If there were no schools and traditional academic curriculums, and one had the option to question and rethink a human being learning curriculum what would be in it?
If we suspend momentarily the reasoning and goals that went into the creation of the present educational system, what ...
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Robin Good - April 29, 2014
Everyone is talking about them: eBooks. Whether you like, have tried or have yet to get exposed to this relatively new electronic publishing medium, you can be sure that ebooks will play a role in your future. Particularly so if you are an author. From the ...
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Robin Good - February 25, 2011
The large adoption of communication and collaboration technologies, alongside the intelligent use and adoption of these tools by a new emergent class of educators, have opened up new horizons for the world of education and learning, by empowering students to be again explorers and active collaborative ...
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Robin Good - January 25, 2011
What are P2P and open infrastructures? Can open knowledge and peer production subvert the economic system of physical production? Is there a chance for the "society of openness" to ever come of age? Robin Good interviewed the P2P Foundation evangelist and founder Michel Bauwens to find ...
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Robin Good - October 26, 2010
Colleges and universities in North America continue to increase their adoption and large scale use of social media technologies, outpacing both Fortune and Inc 500 on the blogging front. Besides using these to augment and extend their overall communication, learning and student support services, educational institutions ...
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Nora Ganim Barnes and Eric Mattson - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research - July 8, 2010
Self-publishing your online course as a book may be a great way to distribute a valuable piece of content you have to a broader audience. But can you just print your online course, choose a nice cover artwork and start selling your book? As you might ...
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Heather Hedden - eLearn Magazine - May 19, 2010
To create, host and manage large-audience webinars and online events, there are a number of web conferencing tools that can help you deal efficiently with hundreds of participants. But how do you choose among all these services which one is best for you? In this MasterNewMedia ...
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Robin Good and Daniele Bazzano - May 10, 2010
On May, 4th 2010, Ning, one of the most popular social networking platforms on the web, is phasing out its free service. All free online communities will either be converted into premium online groups or discontinued altogether. As a consequence of the subsequent growing demand for ...
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Robin Good and Daniele Bazzano - May 3, 2010
What is project-based learning? PBL is a new learning approach which places greater emphasis on targeting the learning of complex experiences, geared to a specific goal or objective, in place of the traditional academic approach strongly focusing on rote memorization of multiple information items alienated from ...
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Bob Pearlman - Edutopia - April 7, 2010
I guess we can agree: the world is changing at an increasingly faster pace, and the volume of information is growing at an explosive rate. Change is the name of the game these days and who lives and works off the Internet knows how true this ...
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Teemu Arina - Dicole - March 18, 2010
Is online collaborative writing the recipe to change the academic publishing process? Are blogs and wikis going to subvert the way academics publish and distribute their work?
Academics have long operated within a system of peer reviewed scholarship. The research process is seen as incomplete until a ...
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Janelle Ward - The Broker - January 29, 2010
If you are interested in learning about new media trends, communication technologies and about the changes that are shaping our future, in this issue of Media Literacy Digest, open education advocate George Siemens, explores and reports on new fascinating stories and insights and on the impact ...
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George Siemens - Elearnspace - January 23, 2010
Focused attention, participation, collaboration and critical consumption (which includes "crap detection") are the core 21st century new media literacy skills needed to become a fully enabled and active citizen of this ongoing digital communication revolution.
"Increasingly... the digital divide is less about access to technology and more ...
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JD Lasica - Socialmedia.biz - January 22, 2010
In this weekly Media Literacy Digest, open education and connectivism advocate George Siemens, explores and reports about emergent media, technology and learning, helping you make good sense of the many changes taking place around you and their possible impact on how we work, learn and communicate ...
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George Siemens - Elearnspace - January 17, 2010
In this weekly Media Literacy Digest, open education and connectivism advocate George Siemens, takes you to news and stories about his new media technologies discoveries and their possible impact on how we work, learn and communicate together.
Inside this Media Literacy Digest
How Is The Internet Changing The ...
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George Siemens - Elearnspace - January 10, 2010
If you are interested in finding out what I think 2010 and beyond have in store for you, when it comes to new media, communication, marketing, learning, collaboration and new technologies, you have landed in the right place. This is Part 2 of MasterNewMedia yearly report ...
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Robin Good - January 8, 2010
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