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This week, during a summit of researchers in Redmond, Microsoft announced a set of free software tools for helping researchers publish, preserve, and share data. The utilities include an authoring add-in for Word 2007 for capturing document metadata; a Creative Commons add-in for Office 2007; an e-journal service for self-publishing of online-only journals; a research output repository platform; and a collaborative workspace for researchers.
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Guidelines for effective distance communication.
Course Communication
Jul. 19–They cost more and often get less respect than public universities and community colleges, but corporate-run colleges are finding a growing niche in Florida’s higher education market.
The number of for-profit, degree-granting institutions in Florida has grown from 238 five years ago to 313 this year, according to the Florida Association of Postsecondary Schools & Colleges, the schools’ professional organization. Enrollment was about 135,000 in 2006-07, a 23 percent increase over the previous year.
For-Profit Colleges Are Gaining in Popularity in Florida - Education - redOrbit
What e-learning software has overlooked until now is that no two students are the same. They have different backgrounds, different learning styles and different approaches to learning. A technological medium that ‘delivers’ the same material in the same way to every student is bound to fail.
Giving learning a personal touch
The high cost of college textbooks has spawned a new battleground in the fight to keep students from downloading copyright-protected materials over the internet: textbook file sharing.
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This is a journal article published in Journal of Interactive Media in Education. The author suggests that games are powerful tools for learning and they have many attributes that make them pedagogically sound. The article looks at some successes in using games but also offers some potential pitfalls.
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For elearning practice SME is an important pillar to build an effective course. He is one player who can make or break the whole vision. So how do we treat an SME in real life? We give them a special place. We ask them specific stereo type questions. Subconsciously, this fear that s/he may not run away leads to a very formal behavior from our end. Trust me, formal behavior can never be human and warm. Air hostesses/ cabin crew serving at flight are great example of formal and learnt behavior. All of them greet us with same plastic smile and same facial gestures. Does it make us feel warm or have a relationship, binding, or ownership?
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”Nasa is to make its huge collection of historic photographs, film and video available to the public for the first time. A partnership with the non-profit Internet Archive will see 21 major Nasa imagery collections merged into a single searchable online resource. The Nasa Images website is expected to go live this week. The content of the site covers all the diverse activities of America’s space programme, including imagery from the Apollo missions, Hubble Space Telescope views of the universe and experimental aircraft past and present.” The site is working already, and it looks fantastic. Don’t hesitate to share any interesting pictures or movies you find.
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The sky-high prices have many people making dramatic changes to their lifestyles, and for some, it’s changing the way they earn their degree. Many are looking for ways to take classes without having to drive, and for those people, taking courses online is becoming the option of choice. Across the country, enrollment in online classes is skyrocketing right along with gas prices. That’s especially  View Original Article
This article from Penn State discusses some characteristics of adult learners and provides some hints on how to teach them. The site states: “Adult learners may present challenges to higher education instructors who are inexperienced with teaching adults or with planning adult learning experiences. Theories of adult learning take into account differences in students’ life experiences, including education, work, and family responsibilities. Instructors can be more effective in a classroom where adult learners are present when they have an understanding of the variety of ways adults learn, and the different ways they may be helped to learn.”
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