Monthly Archives: June 2009

Tom Reeves – Keynote EDMEDIA

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) … Continue reading

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David Merrill keynote on instructional design

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 … Continue reading

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Alan Levine – 50 ways to use Web 2.0

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.

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Lisa Tripp – Teaching Digital Media Production Online

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 … Continue reading

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Open Education – Kurtis Bonk presentation at EDMEDIA

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 … Continue reading

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