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Release Date: Handbook of Research on Practices and Outcomes in E-Learning: Issues and Trends

By Fritz Nordengren

As you may know, Ann and I worked together in the creation of a research chapter for the Handbook of Research on Practices and Outcomes in E-Learning: Issues and Trends. Today,  IGI Global released the text for sale. What you may not know is the final submission deadline for our original chapter was during a... »

Back to the Future

By Ann York

Following up on a theme discussed in a recent PowerProfs post on the evolution of educators from a stand and deliver classroom teachers to a supercharged E-mentors using a variety of online tools, I read this article in the NY Times with interest: “SINCE the 16th century, the ideal of education has been the tutorial... »

Twitter, Social Networks, and the Graduate Learner

By Fritz Nordengren

Not in the ways you may think. Overall, Twitter users engage with news and own technology at the same rates as other Internet users, but the ways in which they use the technology — to communicate, gather and share information — reveals their affinity for mobile, untethered and social opportunities for interaction. So says the Pew... »

It’s bad. It’s good. It depends….

By Ann York

Not too long ago we were asked to worry if Google was making us stupid. Too much scanning, too little substance; hyperactive, multi-tasking minds that have lost the ability for deep reading and thinking. Yes, I have days like that, but honestly, I think it started long before Google and Web 2.0. Nevertheless, point... »

Wading into the Stream

By Ann York

I joined the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course, described as a “rather large open online course” with hundreds of participants worldwide. I had the intention of actively participating, but soon became overwhelmed, downgrading myself to lurking and snatching a few tidbits from their daily newsletter. This reminded me of a post on Zen... »

Dispatch – July

By admin

New models of classroom discussion:  The sage on the stage or the guide on the side?  Or are we becoming catalysts? »

There’s no end of questioning we have to do.

By Fritz Nordengren

I came across this interview with David Pogue at The Royal Treatment, an interview with Ken Royal at District Administration magazine. Royal blogs on technology aimed at the k-12 segment, but if you read Pogues’ comment, there is great content for all of us DA: “I know you’ve done some technology for dummies books... »

ELI and San Antonio

By Fritz Nordengren

Ann and I wanted to include a few links from our podcast for January 31 from ELI. The Henry Jenkins presentation as podcast  I referenced this study: A study by Ruhl, Hughes and Schloss (1987) compared lectures presented without pauses with lectures where, every 12-18 minutes students paused for two minutes and discussed and reworked their notes... »

Mass Collaboration

By Ann York

Does the world really need another blog? With more than 100 million blogs already out there, and 100,000 new blogs created daily, I was wondering if this blog would make a difference, or would it just be adding to the noise. But then it hit me: I was asking the wrong question! Mass collaboration through... »