Theory and practice of e-Learning can be discussed in this group.

• Ronaldo R. Campos

  I am looking for some articles that describes the effect of the teaching process on the teacher.

  When the teacher interacts whith a student, does he/she learn? How?

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    Paul Dorra replied

    Hi, this is my first message here and im surely not the one to teach somebody. But your terms of searching reminds me of the symbolic interactionism by George H. Mead. Particulary what he describedHi, this is my first message here and im surely not the one to teach somebody. But your terms of searching reminds me of the symbolic interactionism by George H. Mead. Particulary what he described as "conversation of gestures" and "usage of significant symbols". Symbolic interactionismn also includes the idea that "doing something with something" is not only a process of actualisation of the meaning of the specific object but a new interpretation of it even if there's "only me" doing "something with something". Maybe this is somehow a usefull association for you. Sincerely

    5 days ago
• Masood Jawaid

  Lecture recording

  Can anybody tell me some free lecture recording tool. Powerpoint presentation with voice. The will be delivered with moodle.

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    Gonzalo Abio replied

    Others options free: - Screenr (http://www.screenr.com) - Wink (http://www.debugmode.com/wink/) - Slideshare - option slidecast (http://www.slideshare.net/) - atubecatcher - option screen recordOthers options free: - Screenr (http://www.screenr.com) - Wink (http://www.debugmode.com/wink/) - Slideshare - option slidecast (http://www.slideshare.net/) - atubecatcher - option screen record (http://atube-catcher.dsnetwb.com)

    28 days ago
• Carolina Castro Huercano

  Research about creative thinking learning through e-learning?

  I have already investigated about WebQuests, and created one, which has creative thinking as a key feature, but I would like to know more e-tools that boost creative thinking in students, realI have already investigated about WebQuests, and created one, which has creative thinking as a key feature, but I would like to know more e-tools that boost creative thinking in students, real experiences by teachers, etc.

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    Celso Figueiredo replied

    Hi Carolina, Have you tryed Pinterest? This new social network is very helpful for cross referencing.

    Apr 11, 2012

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• Bahaaeldin Mohamed

  What are your favourite ways to use Web 2.0 for your research?

  I am really interested to share with you your best practice of doing your research process by assistant social media and web2.0 tools?

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    Norbert Boruett replied

    Google reader, RSS, are powerful tools to use in research. I have used wikispaces by creating a page and adding links videos etc.Scoop looks promising. Google docs ie the form is useful for dataGoogle reader, RSS, are powerful tools to use in research. I have used wikispaces by creating a page and adding links videos etc.Scoop looks promising. Google docs ie the form is useful for data collection and analysis

    Apr 5, 2012
• Dr. Jan Roy

  Are there any case studies on the impact of social networking on onlilne education?

  Do universities feel it is beneficial to have a facebook or twitter page?

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    Ana Cristina Pratas replied

    Have a look here; just scroll down the tags: http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-delights

    Apr 5, 2012
• Jan-Max Lipp

  Searching for literature about use of Wikis in (university) teaching

  Hey folk, I'm searching literature about the use of Wikis in education (specifically university). Does anybody knows a good website about this topic? I'm especially interested in evaluation methodsHey folk, I'm searching literature about the use of Wikis in education (specifically university). Does anybody knows a good website about this topic? I'm especially interested in evaluation methods by using wikis. Thanks a lot. Jan-Max

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    Ana Cristina Pratas replied

    If you scroll down the tags here, I am sure you will find something (there are 3,000 articles, videos, slideshows and more on E-Learning, Connectivism and more) http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-delights

    Apr 5, 2012
• Lucia Maria Santos

  All techonolgie related to elearning specially in Brazil, as far as I am concern, works with a kind of assyncronic method. Which tools have been creat...

  Which plataforms have been created with tools where students and masters can be at real time?

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    Ana Cristina Pratas replied

    Hi Lucia, if you scroll down the tags here, you will find options: http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-delights-for-learners

    Apr 5, 2012
• Sivakumar Palaniyandi

  How would you upload a power point presentation in blogspot?

  In Blogspot provisions are given to upload photos,audio,video but not for the power point presentation.

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    Ana Cristina Pratas replied

    If you want an alternative to SlideShare, have a look here: http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-delights-for-learners You only need to scroll down the tags.

    Apr 5, 2012
• Francisco Javier Perez

  What's mean exactly blended learning? How can apply? Which are disadvantages and advantages?

  Questions About Blended learning.

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    Alka Arora replied

    Ya its true that blended learning is quite an innovative approach, but in indian situations it is very much immpractical . Approximately 2% of the total schools in the country are applying theYa its true that blended learning is quite an innovative approach, but in indian situations it is very much immpractical . Approximately 2% of the total schools in the country are applying the concept of blended laerning. The situation is very saddening . As a techer educator, i try to use this approach bt due to lack of multimedia facilities it becomes nearly immpossible.

    Apr 3, 2012
• Hamid Rouhani

  Will cloud computing benefit the development of e-learning?

  How can cloud computing technology help in e-learning, especially in legal environments?

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    Irina Dudina replied

    I do think that budget cuts and the need to decrease expenses will make universities include cloud solutions in their LMS. It is very important for universities to analyze the resources and the mainI do think that budget cuts and the need to decrease expenses will make universities include cloud solutions in their LMS. It is very important for universities to analyze the resources and the main activities and processes to identify their need for a cloud model with regard to security requirements of higher education. It is also for each particular university to consider and balance benefits, risks and limitations to such models – here I fully agree with Mary’s, Olle’s and Brad’s considerations. I would like to recommend those interested in clouds Marinela Mircea and Anca Ioana Andreescu’s paper Using Cloud Computing in Higher Education: A Strategy to Improve Agility in the Current Financial Crisis IBIMA Publishing Communications of the IBIMA http://www.ibimapublishing.com/journals/CIBIMA/cibima.html

    Cloud computing.pdf

    Mar 17, 2012
• Maria Teresa Restivo

  As organizer of the TAT’12 @ IGIP Anual Conference (http://www.igip-online.net/) I would like to share with all the possible interest of you in topics as: Research in EE DevelopmentAs organizer of the TAT’12 @ IGIP Anual Conference (http://www.igip-online.net/) I would like to share with all the possible interest of you in topics as: Research in EE Development of higher order thinking skills Using research to motivate engineering students Students mentoring and tutoring Assessment of learning outcomes More details could be found at: https://feupload.fe.up.pt/get/tfyKU9bYGCu2GT3

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    Maria Teresa Restivo replied

    YES!!!! This special session is not overlaping the main topics of the general conference. BUT, obviously, it is very important. All new challanges will be great, tr

    Mar 16, 2012
• Stephan Si-Hwan Park

  Is a university degree overrated?

  The more I discover educational resources such as free online courses on iTunes U, free ebooks, www.khanacademy.com etc, the more I am convinced that you can basically learn anything on the internetThe more I discover educational resources such as free online courses on iTunes U, free ebooks, www.khanacademy.com etc, the more I am convinced that you can basically learn anything on the internet by yourself. What do you think? If you are genuinely interested and passionate about a subject, isn't it possible to learn anything outside the university context?

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    Scott Robbins replied

    Learning is one thing, acquiring the credentials necessary to start a scientific or technical career is something else. There are indeed a wide range of resources available to help us master skillsLearning is one thing, acquiring the credentials necessary to start a scientific or technical career is something else. There are indeed a wide range of resources available to help us master skills and knowledge domains of interest outside of formal educational settings. However, without the degree it is generally impossible to get started in a field of interest, earning a living that will provide a person with the time and resources necessary for serious self-guided learning. Even for self-guided learning, true mastery in most scientific or technical fields requires the application of the knowledge or skill set to complicated real-world problems. While it's possible to find interesting problems that other people might care about on our own I have found that many of the most compelling scientific and technical challenges are most effectively engaged in formal research institutions where degrees still matter quite a bit. This is where the problems tend to concentrate and where the opportunities for enriching (even necessary) collaboration are most dense.

    Mar 6, 2012
• Rey Segundo Guerrero-Proenza

  Do all methods of virtual learning have their analogue in the traditional approach or are there methods inherently virtual?

  ICT-based tools are used in virtual learning environments. With their help you can implement many of the methods that are performed on-campus, essentially changing the communication tool andICT-based tools are used in virtual learning environments. With their help you can implement many of the methods that are performed on-campus, essentially changing the communication tool and partially the way of representing information and the time spent performing the activities. For example, a discussion list can be used for an asynchronous seminar . Will there be inherently virtual learning methods?

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    Rey Segundo Guerrero-Proenza replied

    I think the solution to the problem of determining specifically virtual methods, must pass through the definition of: what is method. You might think about one thing and another something else (veryI think the solution to the problem of determining specifically virtual methods, must pass through the definition of: what is method. You might think about one thing and another something else (very common in educational theories).

    Mar 5, 2012
• Maruthai Veeran

  What are contribution E-Learning for School Education?

  E-learning is a new education concept by using the Internet technology, it deliveries the digital content, provides a learner-orient environment for the teachers and students. The e-learning promotesE-learning is a new education concept by using the Internet technology, it deliveries the digital content, provides a learner-orient environment for the teachers and students. The e-learning promotes the construction of life-long learning opinions and learning society.

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    Thomas Richter replied

    This may become a longer post, since this topic hits my basic research motivation - making the world a little bit better with e-Learning. Thus, please allow me, to throw three topics and researchThis may become a longer post, since this topic hits my basic research motivation - making the world a little bit better with e-Learning. Thus, please allow me, to throw three topics and research areas into the room: First of all, in a blended learning scenario, I see little problems for e-Learning in the framework of school-education - at least not, if the schools provide the necessary infrastructure and the educators are skilled enough to support their learners. But when the discussion comes on substituting f-2-f education with e-Learning, I see a number of still unsolved problems. On the one hand, e-Learning based school education is a future-related vision because there are so many regions in the world, where proper school-education cannot be ensured (e.g., low pupulation density, lacking school books, or skilled educators). In such cases, e-Learning based school education could solve urgent society-issues like missing illiteracy skills. I am convinced that together with caring online-turors and well-educated parents, some pupils may be able to deal with this situation of self-learning (we have e.g. successful programs in Germany for kids that cannot go to school for a longer time because of accidents or perma-travelling parents): But the barriers, e-Learning provides to it's learners (see http://www.editlib.org/p/38075) often meet competences that before had to be learned in f-2-f education, like self-motivation, organizing learning processes, looking for further information and dealing with information. Teaching such abilities via e-Learning still seems to be a white spot on the map of Internet based educational research. And not researching in those fields somehow means raising the gap between priviledged and not priviledged countries (in priviledged countries at least most parents have a suitable education to assist their kids). Thus, from my perspective, this is one of the three big research fields for the future. When following the type/content of presentations on e-Learning conferences in the past 2 years (eLearn, EdMedia, EDEN, IADIS, Plymouth e-Learning, OEB), it seems being more promising/rewarding (for researchers) to research on phantastic educational opportunities, new technologies (like iPhones or iPads) offer. Researchers tend not to care if any learner may have such technologies. This research often even is conducted with infradstructure that has been funded/provided by the original producers - the researchers or their institutions would never have been able or willed to buy the related technologies by themselves. Nothing bad about this kind of funded research on the one hand, but on the other hand, if we use this as an opportunity to lay back and claim having done everything to solve the big issues in the world, it gets to be a problem. Last year in my lecture, I asked my 120 students who of them had a smart-phone with a flat-rate Internet access. Not even 10 percent had such a technology. Why should I provide my lectures or additional learning content for such a scenario - I upload it in moddle? If I did so although knowing that just 10% will use it, would I rather help myself by claiming that we are a modern department or would I actually help my students to get better learning opportunities and location-independent? Would I much more, maybe force my students to spend money for technology, they otherwise would not need? In consequence this would mean that I force them to even do more jobs besides university to afford it. This leads to the second big research field (and critique): Implementing educational approaches that fit the technological standard even in poor regions. Instead of really finding solutions for poverty and worldwide understanding, we seem to develop more and more educational scenarios, the regions in need anyways cannot use (if not even students in highly developed countries can...). Even if we had the perfect approaches for Internet-based school education, we can not expect that the necessary technological standard (be it the infrastructure provided by the region or the technological standard the local people can afford to have) is provided. Instead of developing more and more highly innovative ideas on how we could involve the newest technology in educational scenarios, we rather should research on educational concepts that work with the lowest technological infrastructures like spontaneously working modem-Internet and Win95 computers. Even in a country with a high technological standard (in average), such as Germany, most of the schools have a single computer room (if they have one at all), and poor families have no Internet or Computer at home - but those, first of all, would be the ones in real need of additional educational opportunities. Developing technology for rich people will never solve future problems - and the argument that first it needs to be paid and than it can be provided for the masses is a foul excuse (adapted from the pharma-industry) to play around with funny new technology instead of doing the painful work. The third big research topic in this field, is related to educational resources and still not solved (but I am hard working on this one since 2007). Sure, we have high quality ressources that can freely be reused. But can they really be reused? Even German teachers feel insecure when dealing with this question (see http://www.elearningeuropa.info/files/media/media25178.pdf) and rather do not reuse resources from others than choosing the "wrong ones" (whatever this may mean in a certain context). How can we ensure that when reusing such resources, those resoureces fit the context of the learners and we do not give up or "violate" our own cultural identity? Particularly in school-education, the cultural identity of our learners still is to be developed. From my point of view, it is one of the basic school tasks to preserve local culture (university already should be more general). We urgently need working approaches that help educators to adapt learning resources to their specific content. And following an apporoach of national culture (as a lot of colleagues recommend) is not a solution but a unjustifiable simplification. We need mechanisms that help educators to determine their own (local) educational context, determine adaptation needs and finally, conduct the adaptation. I still am stuck in the first part (although in parallel also working on the other parts - but basic questions still are unanswered or answers are not validated enough) and somehow, it seems, I have opened a bottomless keg. Right now, the biggest problem is motivating universities all over the world to invite their students (by mass mail) to participate in my survey on learning culture. However, without further data of learners in different cultural contexts, it seems almost impossible to finding appropriate results/solutions. Fortunately, I now, received translations of my survey into French (verified), Russian and Turkish (additionally I have verified translations in Korean, German and English). Since the survey needs to be implemented in the national language, this is another problem for coming further. If you are further interested in this topic at all, be free to look at http://uni-due.academia.edu/ThomasRichter. As far as I was allowed to, most of my publications are online there. I invite everyone to contribute/support my research and am willed to even share the raw-data as soon as they are evaluated. I look foward reading your comments, all my best wishes and thanks for starting this discussion!

    Mar 1, 2012