Digital Learning Technologies
This site gives you a foresight about new applications of web technology on education sector and how it will change the future of education.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
E-Portfolios
E-Portfolios
E-portfolios are collection of data
stored in web consolidated by a user. These include videos of academic nature, multimedia,
blog entries etc. E-portfolios are very concentrated form of user’s
achievements and skills. The advantage of e-portfolio is its exposure.
Another advantage of e-portfolio
is that people will be confronted to picturise their skills to suite
perspective of potential employer. Most
of the e-portfolios require user to submit the
·
Plan
of study.
·
Career
goals.
·
Experience.
·
Career
resources.
So this can make you think where
your efforts are heading and how can you capitalize on it. It has also some
sections regarding the reactions of those who watched your portfolio. So that
you can make necessary changes to your path according to the direction the industry
is heading.
LinkedIn account
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/arun-warriar/16/172/7
Reference
1.
Moon, Jenny. "Guide
for Busy Academics No. 4: Learning through reflection" (MSWord). The
Higher Education Academy.
2.
M. van
Wesel & A. Prop (2008). "The
influence of Portfolio media on student perceptions and learning
outcomes.". Paper to be presented at the Student Mobility and ICT: Can
E-LEARNING overcome barriers of Life-Long learning Conference, Maastricht.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Instructional Design Model
Instructional Design Model
We went
through several phases previously namely introduction to digital technologies,
acquainting oneself with new ways of learning, how to use your Facebook/twitter
account for learning new things. Now we learn how to acquire new resources to
teach.
We
learn about some methods to do this
·
ADDIE
·
OTARA
ADDIE: - Analysis,
design, development, implementation and evaluation.
OTARA: - Identify
the OBJECT, ASSESS the object, establish-the THEME, work
out the RESOURCES identified, establish ACTIVITIES.
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Personal Learning Networks
Personal Learning Networks
It must be hard for the present generation to believe that some years ago to acquire a piece of information men had to go to a library borrow a book and through the pages for hours or even days. Now Google, baidu and lots of search engines have made life
frighteningly easy for us. You
don't have to see the steps of your library, library will
come to your doorstep now.
Searching
information is now 'outsourced' to search engines. We will
discuss how to pin point the factoid or
information you are looking for and filter out the junk which comes with it.
There are loads of tools
available in the web Facebook, twitter, YouTube, weibo to name a few.
Facebook: - Mostly used to upload party pics
in western world. However in Asia (which includes Middle East and India) it is
also used to indulge in starting some politically oriented discussions as well
as social issues. We can also learn many things with academic as well as
business oriented features if we 'like' pages related to the topic.
business oriented features if we 'like' pages related to the topic.
YouTube: - You can see lot of
pages related to software training, programming and other learning materials in
YouTube if you know to use it well then you can learn a lot.
Twitter: - You can contact the academics, educators
and industrialist using clever use of twitter.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Social Technologies
Social Technologies for social re engineering
Social technologies brought a big revolution to the society in many parts of the world. One of the main aspect of this tech is that anybody with certain valuable info related to anything can show it to the world without much hassle whether it's an educator or a revolutionary.
Other technological innovations like t.v or radio took years to have this much followers as the facebook could get in few months. If an ordinary man want to show a particular piece of info to the t.v or radio, he may have to wait for a long time he might be denied permission by the authorities. Twitter and facebook solved this problem.
I was wondering whether this great advantage of these social tools can change the educations scenario. In short if twitter and facebook can bring down autocracies in middle east can it help the students learn new things and make them job ready......?
Reflective Post
Adobe connect is one of the coolest tech's I have ever seen so far. This can change the class room experience forever.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
VAKOG and NLP
V.A.K.O.G. stands for Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic.
Olfactory and Gustatory.
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a method of approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. The title asserts a connection between the neurological processes ("neuro"), language ("linguistic"), and behavioral patterns learned through experience ("programming") that proponents speculate can be changed to achieve specific goals in life.
Theoretically it can be also used to cure many phobias and mental illness. Combination of VAKOG and NLP can be used to enhance the teaching skills as well as learning skills.
Criticism
This has been termed ass pseudo-science and was proved to have many faults of its own. It was good in creating placebo effect and enhancing the confidence level of people nd thereby increasing the efficiency.
Reference
Tosey, P. & Mathison, J., (2006) "Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming Centre for Management Learning & Development, School of Management, University of Surrey.
Visual
refers to seeing (or internally, to perceptions of mental imagery);
Auditory to what is heard
externally or internally ('mentally'); kinaesthetic to feelings (either of
a sensory 'bodily' nature like pressure, temperature, etc. or of an emotional
kind); olfactory to smell and gustatory to taste.
Neuro-Linguistic programming Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a method of approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. The title asserts a connection between the neurological processes ("neuro"), language ("linguistic"), and behavioral patterns learned through experience ("programming") that proponents speculate can be changed to achieve specific goals in life.
Theoretically it can be also used to cure many phobias and mental illness. Combination of VAKOG and NLP can be used to enhance the teaching skills as well as learning skills.
Criticism
This has been termed ass pseudo-science and was proved to have many faults of its own. It was good in creating placebo effect and enhancing the confidence level of people nd thereby increasing the efficiency.
Reference
Tosey, P. & Mathison, J., (2006) "Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming Centre for Management Learning & Development, School of Management, University of Surrey.
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Features
One of the biggest features of the digital learning is to cut down the cost of the education significantly without touching down the quality and we can also increase the spread of the education. Another feature I came across is that physically impaired individuals can learn whatever they need without much inconvenience.
Where I come from there are less takers for offbeat topics like digital learning,cloud computing, internet system security which has the potential to be big in the future. So if there are only few takers for a certain course or subject across the country we will be able to cater the demands of those students without straining the resources.
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