The Piet Zwart Institute has published a fairly comprehensive online guide to open content licenses. Good context, good explanations of the various options…good stuff. (Found via Open Access News.)
Learning Effectiveness Via Learning Affectiveness
I just read a great article by Karen Swan called “Immediacy, Social Presence, and Asynchronous Discussion,” published in one of the Sloan-C’s books. (Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be available online.) The paper appears to be an empirical study to follow up an earlier paper by Swan and several colleagues (which is available online, albeit […]
Time to Vote
The nominations are closed and the polls are open for the 2004 Edublog awards. I’m flattered to say that e-Literate has been nominated for Best Newcomer and Best Designed and Most Beautiful Blog. Go vote!
Experience as a Distance Learning Teacher Makes You a Better Classroom Teacher
According to a faculty satisfaction study [DOC] conducted by SLN, a whopping 85% of their faculty reported that their experience as online teachers “will have a positive effect on their classroom instruction.” Here is their explanation for their findings:
I Must Be Famous
Apparently, there is a national technology literacy program in India in which they are naming entire districts after my weblog. Isn’t that something? Of course, if I were smarter I could have been even more famous. I could have named my weblog “McDonald’s.” (Found via Conversations with Dina.)
Looking for Student Blogs and Course Blogs
I’m trying to compile a list of weblogs that are specifically used in the context of a course, either by a faculty member for the students or by the students themselves. If you know of any examples, please add them with a comment or trackback on this post. Thanks.
Research at the SUNY Learning Network
One of the things that I love about the program here at SUNY is that staff has integrated a well-oiled research machine right into the daily operations. They have a growing theoretical/pedagogical framework from which they are building. Apparently, each year they pose hypotheses based on that framework. They construct and conduct faculty and student […]