Tom Reeves presentation:
Kirschner, Sweller, Clarke (2006) Why minimal guidance during instruction does not work….. (provocative paper - lookup)
Tom points to Conative domain (will, desire, drive, intention….) as a major deficate of the Cognitive Load Theory.
Cognitive (to know) - Affective (to feel) - Conative (to act)
Slavin:
Conditions for quality random experiment:
1. is there a control group
2. Are [...]

David Merrill’s First Principles of Instruction:

Activation - learning is promoted when learners activate relevant cognitive structures.
Demonstration - learning is promoted when learners observe a demonstration of the skills to be learned
Application - learning is promoted when learners apply their newly acquired knowledge and skill
Integration - learning is promoted when learners integrate their new skills into [...]

Great presentation (must lookup!!!):

spoke about his paper Digital Storytelling using Web 2.0
showed a great presentation software ????
Alan Levine’s blog is http://cogdogblog.com/
Recommends Nancy White’s workshop.

Principles for teaching a Media course online:

Scaffold student learning
Use open source Web 2.0 (uses Wordpress, MediaWiki, Audacity, GIMP, but hasn’t found a good opensource video editing software)
Forster a culture of collaboration among students
Help students to understand Copyright - also talks about what you can do - eg Centre for Social Media “code of practices in [...]

Excellent presentation that covered items such as:

Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System voluntarily translating courseware such as MITs open coursware
TUFTS, Indian Institutes of Technologies, National Repository for Online Courses (NROC) Commons
December 2007 Cape Town Open Education Declaration http://www.capetowndeclaration.org
Israel starts first free online university
“Google Sky”
The complete works of Darwin and Shakespeare are now [...]