Kategorie: Bits & Bytes

  • Article: Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007092.asp schrieb / wrote: Article: Controlled and suggested vocabularies: Are tags making us dumb? This post, by David Weinberger, offers wonderful insights on the pros and cons of folksonomies. Although much is said about the bottom-up, emergent properties of folksonomies, I’m still quite skeptical about the current state of folksonomy implementations. Decentralizing to these extremes…

  • Software: Cmap – Concept Maps Go to School

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007153.asp schrieb / wrote: Software: Cmap – Concept Maps Go to School: I use concept maps regularly in my work to gather requirements, problem-solve, explore design options, etc. I find it a wonderful consensus-building tool when used collaboratively. I use OmniGraffle for building my concept maps. This Wired article reports on the use of another…

  • Lectures: The Emerging Mind

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007103.asp schrieb / wrote: Lectures: The Emerging Mind: The 2003 Reith Lectures from the BBC profiled Professor VS Ramachandaran, a noted neuroscientist and the Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition at the University of California (San Diego). The Prof. talks about how the ‚activity of the 100 billion little wisps of protoplasm –…

  • Storytelling: How to use the dial phone (1927)

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007146.asp schrieb / wrote: Storytelling: How to use the dial phone (1927): Check out this multimedia-instruction from 1927 on how to use the dial phone. It uses a story to link the sequence of operations together. On another note, I also like the way the Internet Archive uses thumbnails to allow users preview the movie…

  • Article: Blogging Clicks With Colleges

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007083.asp schrieb / wrote: Article: Blogging Clicks With Colleges: More evidence that bottom-up, emergent technologies like blogs and wikis are poised to transform education. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25305-2005Mar10.html phpBB(Topic723|Post1791)

  • Article: To Be, or Not To Be

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007088.asp schrieb / wrote: Article: To Be, or Not To Be: Intranet Justification: Nice article that shows how to go about justifying the design or redesign of an intranet to business decision makers. Here’s the whole point: ‚It’s our job, as intranet professionals, to help management see the true worth of an intranet beyond the…

  • Article: To Be, or Not To Be

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007088.asp schrieb / wrote: Article: To Be, or Not To Be: Intranet Justification: Nice article that shows how to go about justifying the design or redesign of an intranet to business decision makers. Here’s the whole point: ‚It’s our job, as intranet professionals, to help management see the true worth of an intranet beyond the…

  • Comment: Distance Learning is Closing the Distance

    http://www.elearningpost.com/archives/007119.asp schrieb / wrote: Comment: Distance Learning is Closing the Distance: Here’s another article talking about the ‚rise of e-learning‘: ‚Young students across the globe today are growing up with online learning as a natural part of their education. As these students grow and move from the world of school to the world of work,…

  • Sammlung: Instruktionsmethoden für eLearning

    http://elch.blogs.com/lernpfade/2005/05/instruktionsmet.html schrieb / wrote: Sammlung: Instruktionsmethoden für eLearning: Eine Sammlung von Lehrmethoden, die besonders auf die Möglichkeiten des E-Learning eingeht, findet sich unter ‚Instructional Strategies Online‘. http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/PD/instr/index.html phpBB(Topic1292|Post1788)

  • Kosten: Wie teuer sind Lernplattformen?

    http://elch.blogs.com/lernpfade/2005/05/wie_teuer_sind_.html schrieb / wrote: Kosten: Wie teuer sind Lernplattformen? Rebecacca Sausner versucht in ihrem Artikel ‚Course Management: Ready for Prime Time‘ von vier amerikanischen Universitäten eine Aussage über die Kosten von Lernplattformen zu erhalten. Es sollten die Kosten pro Student / 3 Kreditpunkte-Kurs / inkl. technischen Training, didaktischen Support und User-Support benannt werden. Nur eine…