I have just added a few new edublogger feeds to my RSS reader. One discovery was Learnlets by Clark Quinn. His postings are brief and thoughtful, and oftentimes deal with knowledge sharing in organizations or among (instructional design) professionals. My … Read more

From  October 27-30, I attended the 19th annual, international conference AACE E-Learn in New Orleans. Here are the slides for my talks:  

I cam across this posting about ‘the algorithms that dominate our world‘ and loved the accessible writing and great visual presentation – It led me to discover a new social media platform with a fascinating concept: Medium is platform where … Read more

Here is a brief video tutorial on how to create characters based on a person’s photographs in PowerPoint, using standard functionality such as shapes and the drawing tool. I have used this technique (photo-based characters) in the past, to develop … Read more

This is definetely on my reading list. http://jolt.merlot.org/currentissue.html Foreword to the Special Section: MOOCs – Evolution or Revolution? Sir John Daniel i-iv * Research Papers * Challenges to Research in MOOCs Helene Fournier, Rita Kop, and Guillaume Durand 1-15 Participants’ … Read more

The White House has just released a report on “Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values” (85 pages, PDF) along with a collection of supporting documents. The report is the culmination of a 90-day review by the Administration, spearheaded by Counselor … Read more

An interesting article on automated essay grading and the potential and limitations of parsing programs: http://chronicle.com/article/Writing-Instructor-Skeptical/146211/

See more at: http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/02/18/my-vision-for-an-open-textbook/ and here: http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/03/03/getting-started-in-writing-an-open-textbook/ What Tony Bates describes sounds like an exciting project and an English counterpart to the open textbook initiative L3T in the German speaking areas. This collaborative textbook on learning and teaching with technology is … Read more

Source: Pew Internet Research Center (2014). E-Reading Rises as Device Ownership Jumps. (PDF, online). Quick Facts at a glance: Rising level of familiarity with e-books: The percentage of US-American adults who read an e-book in the past year has risen … Read more