Greenflame » eLearning/Distance http://www.greenflame.org Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture and faith from the Antipodes. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:25:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Thesis Whisperer http://www.greenflame.org/2012/02/03/the-thesis-whisperer/ http://www.greenflame.org/2012/02/03/the-thesis-whisperer/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:16:04 +0000 stepheng http://www.greenflame.org/?p=2370 This link came across my desk today. Blog + Twitter feed for those writing theses etc. Looks interesting.

The Thesis Whisperer.

]]> http://www.greenflame.org/2012/02/03/the-thesis-whisperer/feed/ 0 Online education links http://www.greenflame.org/2011/11/11/online-education-links/ http://www.greenflame.org/2011/11/11/online-education-links/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:49:12 +0000 stepheng http://www.greenflame.org/2011/11/11/online-education-links/ Couple of recent online learning links:

A Social Network Can Be a Learning Network – Online Learning – The Chronicle of Higher Education

Survey shows that as online enrollments have boomed, doubts about online quality persist | Inside Higher Ed

]]> http://www.greenflame.org/2011/11/11/online-education-links/feed/ 0 Amazon, OverDrive, Kindle and libraries http://www.greenflame.org/2011/10/24/amazon-overdrive-kindle-and-libraries/ http://www.greenflame.org/2011/10/24/amazon-overdrive-kindle-and-libraries/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:50:00 +0000 stepheng http://www.greenflame.org/2011/10/24/amazon-overdrive-kindle-and-libraries/ Given the shift towards public and institutional libraries moving towards the eBook work, this raises some interesting questions.

See Amazon, OverDrive, and Kindle! Oh my! | The Digital Immigrant.

(P.S. Not entirely convinced by Auckland Library’s Overdrive link up in terms of pragmatics – just too fiddly and unfriendly to struggle with.)

]]> http://www.greenflame.org/2011/10/24/amazon-overdrive-kindle-and-libraries/feed/ 0 enabling e-Learning – Ministry of Education http://www.greenflame.org/2011/10/04/enabling-e-learning-enabling-elearning/ http://www.greenflame.org/2011/10/04/enabling-e-learning-enabling-elearning/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:14:11 +0000 stepheng http://www.greenflame.org/2011/10/04/enabling-e-learning-enabling-elearning/ Ministry of Education’s new e-learning support site.

See enabling e-Learning – enabling eLearning

Hat tip to: Derek at Core-Ed: New online ICT-related education hub launched

]]> http://www.greenflame.org/2011/10/04/enabling-e-learning-enabling-elearning/feed/ 0 Random educational links http://www.greenflame.org/2011/07/21/random-educational-links/ http://www.greenflame.org/2011/07/21/random-educational-links/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:57:50 +0000 stepheng http://www.greenflame.org/2011/07/21/random-educational-links/ Clearing out various links – here are some related to education.

Blog U.: 10 Guidelines for Running Synchronous Web Teaching Sessions – Technology and Learning – Inside Higher Ed

How to add EPUB books to your Kindle, take advantage of Google’s massive free library « Ernesto Burden

Tweeting Students Earn Higher Grades Than Others in Classroom Experiment – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education

Derek’s Blog » Planning and assessment….
A link through to a somewhat tongue-in-cheek animation about educational language and those who ‘monitor’ standards.

Digital Media and Learning on Vimeo
Via Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: Digital Media and Learning: New Video Series

]]> http://www.greenflame.org/2011/07/21/random-educational-links/feed/ 0 Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems affect teaching http://www.greenflame.org/2010/02/07/insidious-pedagogy-how-course-management-systems-affect-teaching/ http://www.greenflame.org/2010/02/07/insidious-pedagogy-how-course-management-systems-affect-teaching/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:41:14 +0000 stepheng http://www.greenflame.org/2010/02/07/insidious-pedagogy-how-course-management-systems-affect-teaching/ Seeing as how questions about how course management systems and learning management systems relate to teaching in the university crop up all the time at work, I’ll be taking some time to look at this article:

Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems affect teaching
by Lisa M. Lane
First Monday, Volume 14, Number 10 – 5 October 2009

]]> http://www.greenflame.org/2010/02/07/insidious-pedagogy-how-course-management-systems-affect-teaching/feed/ 0 digital nation – life on the virtual frontier http://www.greenflame.org/2009/09/29/digital-nation-life-on-the-virtual-frontier/ http://www.greenflame.org/2009/09/29/digital-nation-life-on-the-virtual-frontier/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:41:18 +0000 stepheng http://www.greenflame.org/2009/09/29/digital-nation-life-on-the-virtual-frontier/ This looks interesting digital nation – life on the virtual frontier | PBS

Digital Nation is a new, open source PBS project that explores what it means to be human in an entirely new world — a digital world. It consists of this Web site as well as a major FRONTLINE documentary to be broadcast in winter 2010. Our production team is posting rough cuts and raw footage on the web, and gathering input, feedback and stories from users as we go.

Related links:

]]> http://www.greenflame.org/2009/09/29/digital-nation-life-on-the-virtual-frontier/feed/ 0 Reconsidering Digital Immigrants… http://www.greenflame.org/2007/12/07/reconsidering-digital-immigrants/ http://www.greenflame.org/2007/12/07/reconsidering-digital-immigrants/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:06:25 +0000 stepheng http://www.greenflame.org/2007/12/07/reconsidering-digital-immigrants/ A couple of times I’ve found it useful to use Marc Prensky’s concepts of the digital native and digital immigrant to make points in things I’ve written. As one reviewer noted of one of these pieces, these are helpful concepts but can’t be realized as absolute categories, which I agree with entirely. The adoption or uptake of digital technologies is far more complicated than seeing people as either ‘natives’ or ‘immigrants’.

Prensky’s work was originally situated in discussions about education, and in particular, perceived differences between teachers and students in terms of familiarity with and use of digital technology. Now, several years on, Henry Jenkins has an interesting article on the relevance and helpfulness of the terminology. See Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins: Reconsidering Digital Immigrants….

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