‘Augmented Reality’ on Smartphones Brings Teaching Down to Earth – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education

‘Augmented Reality’ on Smartphones Brings Teaching Down to Earth – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education:

 

“At the University of New Mexico, some students in second-year Spanish classes become detectives. They travel to Los Griegos, an Albuquerque neighborhood 15 minutes northwest of the campus, on a mission: Clear the names of four families accused of conspiring to murder a local resident.

It’s a fictional murder mystery, and instead of guns and badges, the students are armed with iPod Touches, provided by the university. When students enter their location into the wireless handheld devices, a clue might turn up: a bloody machete, for example, or a virtual character who may converse with them€”in Spanish€”about a suspect.”

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Video Lectures May Slightly Hurt Student Performance

Video Lectures May Slightly Hurt Student Performance – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education: “No clear winner emerges in the contest between video and live instruction, according to the findings of a recent study led by David N. Figlio, a professor of education and social policy at Northwestern University. The study found that students who watched lectures online instead of attending in-person classes performed slightly worse in the course over all.”

Indiana Forms Branch of National Online University

Indiana Forms Branch of Western Governors University

“The agreement gives a boost to Western Governors’ model of competency-based education, in which students advance by showing what they’ve learned, not how much time they’ve spent in class. Students can also fast-forward their degrees by testing out of stuff they’ve already mastered.”

 

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Web 2.0 and competence-oriented design of learning€”Potentials and implications for higher education. Dirk Schneckenberg. 2010; British Journal of Educational Technology

Web 2.0 and competence-oriented design of learning€”Potentials and implications for higher education. Dirk Schneckenberg. 2010; British Journal of Educational Technology – Wiley InterScience:

 

“ABSTRACT This paper discusses the potential of learning technologies to foster competence development of students. It aims to improve understanding of pedagogical conditions that have to be met to establish a competence orientation in e-learning. We review the literature to summarise recent changes in e-learning, identify attributes of web 2.0 technologies, revisit the concept of competence and specify implications for the competence-oriented design of learning environments. By referring to Kolb’s learning cycle, we illustrate this view with a case study on the use of Google Apps as collaborative learning environment and recommend how competence-oriented e-learning activities can be created. Our findings reinforce the position that web 2.0 tools enable a shift from a distributive to a more collaborative mode in e-learning. In particular, the ease of use and intuition of web 2.0 technologies allow creating learning environments, which realise activity-rich pedagogical models and facilitate competence development of students. The paper concludes that, despite the demand of firms for versatile graduates and the obvious potential of learning technologies to foster competence development of students, universities need to establish institutional strategies to make this pedagogical change happen.”

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A Self-Appointed Teacher Runs a One-Man ‘Academy’ on YouTube

A Self-Appointed Teacher Runs a One-Man ‘Academy’ on YouTube – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education:

 

Salman Khan, a 33-year-old who quit his job as a financial analyst to spend more time making homemade lecture videos in his home studio. His unusual teaching materials started as a way to tutor his faraway cousins, but his lectures have grown into an online phenomenon€”and a kind of protest against what he sees as a flawed educational system.

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