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Monday, October 18, 2004 |
Six Criteria of an Educational
Simulation. This is a very nice, detailed, and what appears
to me to be mostly sound analysis of six key elements of
educational simulations and even "all educational
experiences". The model weaves three types of content
- linear, systems and cyclical - into three types of
delivery - simulation, game, pedagogy. I like the subtlety
of the model. Pedagogy, for example, can be thought of as
the guiding or corrective elements in an educational
experience, and understood this way, things like diagnostic
elements (including scoring), visualization and debriefing.
Via elearningpost. By Clark Aldrich, October 17, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
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ISO E-Learning Standardization in
Dublin. Norm Friesen brings us up to date with this
short report on the ISO E-Learning Standardization meetings
in Dublin. Of particular interest is discussion of the
Metadata for Learning Resources (MLR for short), which
represents an attempt on the part of SC36 to "adopt,
correct, amend, and/or improve upon the technical work in a
related IEEE standard called 'Learning Object
Metadata'" By Norm Friesen, September 22, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
8:28:43 PM Google It!.
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CMS Vendor News Feeds.
From the CMS Review Products index page, you can now select a News and Reviews
link that pulls in the latest news about a vendor and its products from
the CMS-related blogs and news sites (the same as are aggregated at CMS
News). We use Feedster.com technology.[CMS Review Blog]
8:26:29 PM Google It!.
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Slapping the Wiki Around. Over at Kairosnews, blacklily8 has some strong words about the new found obsession with wikis:
Wikis are one of those internet phenomena that are
confusing, intruiging, powerful, and often misunderstood. Many users
and even some programmers of wiki software have missed the point
completely, and from what I've observed in scholarly discussions on the
subject, most teachers "using wikis in the classroom" are so far off
the mark that I am at a loss whether to laugh or cry. When I read these
reports, it's like reading about how someone completely and utterly
failed to use their shiny new Ferrari to properly tow a horse trailer.
What I'm saying is that people are so confused and misinformed about
wikis, both practically and philosophically, that they are abusing the
term to the point of doing a major disservice to the true wiki
community. To address this wretched situation, I have decided to come
down from my mountain and make some observations that hopefully a few
of the brighter people here will understand.
This is pretty much along my impressions of the commentary on this
"new" technology (that is more than 8 years old). There is confusion
about wiki vs blog wiki vs discussion board, wiki versus course
management systems-- why do people tend to think only in either/or
modalities? It is much more reasonable to avoid dichotomies and mix and
match your tools and resources.
He/she goes on to cite more or less why WikiPedia is the One and
True wiki, and some observant thoughts about the different between this
new sort of organic content community and the old, pay for a publisher
model of encyclopedic knowledge:
People are slowly starting to realize that an entry in the
Wikipedia is a better authority than a traditional encyclopedia or, for
that matter, any traditional reference, precisely because it reduces
the status of authors. Where authors recede, knowledge comes forward.
Wiki is the single most important development in knowledge-production
or "making meaning" the world has ever known...
Wiki does not find its authority in the credentials of authors;
indeed, the entries quickly become autonomous from individual authors
and take on their own existence. They are always developing as new
collections of indviduals aim to refine or destroy them; but each edit
only pushes upwards. Gradually the entries connect with one another and
thus bring together communities of wiki authors. Entries show up in
online articles, forums--soon they will start showing up in printed
books (but no matter). Those familiar with the free software model will
recognize that the same features apply to Wiki--new authors do not
compete with Wiki; they merely add to its richness. Eventually, Wiki
will be as well-integrated as thought itself.
It's gonna be hard for most to toss the old approach to Truth and
Authority, and accept that all is relative in the world out here.
This is all fine for the monstrous scale of an entity that the
WikiPedia has grown into-- I'd like to hear more about the role of the
little seed wikis, the buds, where people may cut their teeth with the
wiki way.
Wikis are strange, strange things, and its gonna take a long while before a large number of folks truly embrace them. [cogdogblog]
10:01:43 AM Google It!.
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The Brains Behind AI.
Daphne Koller is pushing the limits of building computer programs that
learn efficiently and reason intelligently. Third in a series profiling
this year's MacArthur 'genius award' winners. By Kari Lynn Dean. [Wired News]
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