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Designing Online Social Learning at Penn
Over the past year, the Program Development Group at the College of Liberal and Professional Studies (LPS) has developed and implemented the Penn LPS Commons, a custom-built online learning environment designed to center participants on the social interactions that drive learning communities. Built with Drupal and Moodle, the LPS Commons includes social networking, learning management [...]
7 Things You Should Know About
Consider this blog post an advertisement of sorts for a great resource I think anyone interested in educational technology should be reading whenever they get the chance!
Educause Learning Initiative: 7 Things You Should Know About
The “7 Things You Should Know About…” series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies. Each brief focuses on a [...]
The Future of Video in Education
In a New Media Consortium web conference tomorrow entitled The Future of Video in Education, Dr. Marni Baker Stein, Director of Program Development at the College of Liberal and Professional Studies, will be speaking about our innovative use of open source video on the Penn LPS Commons using Kaltura.
Our “revolutionary video project” involved the delivery [...]
3 Tips for Interactive Web Conference Design
Faculty and staff at the College of Liberal and Professional Studies (LPS) have been using web conferencing software for the delivery of live lectures in online courses and web-based orientation and information sessions for the past three years. As more folks at Penn start using web conferencing tools, I wanted to share some of what [...]
eTextbooks for the iPhone?
Tech blogs were buzzing last week with the news that CourseSmart had just released “eTextbooks for the iPhone“, an iPhone app which allows student and instructor subscribers to access their CourseSmart eTextbook. Seems fewer students want to carry around backpacks full of textbooks. Go figure.
Founded in 2007 and supported by six higher education publishers, CourseSmart [...]
A vision of students today?
I enjoyed reading the Chronicle article Cathy posted yesterday, and agree wholeheartedly that there is great value in “spending time socializing students to the type of interaction that the technology can facilitate”. I also wonder how we might better design interactions that align more closely with some of the ways of knowing and doing that [...]
The Importance of Story and Design
Editor’s note: This blog entry was submitted by Erin Murphy, who works in Wharton’s Learning Lab. You can read more of her work at her blog: The Big Picture.
Just in time for Daniel Pink’s appearance at the Wharton Evolution of Learning symposium, I was reminded of the importance of two of the six aptitudes that [...]
Office Hour Wiki
Julie Nishimura Jensen, faculty member in Classical Studies Department and Director of the Post-Baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies in the College of Liberal and Professional Studies, is using a wiki in her Blackboard site to streamline the scheduling of advising sessions and office hours. She says,
I have to say that I’m really loving my wiki [...]
Common Craft Video Primers
New to social media tools and web 2.o technologies? Check out Common Craft: Explanations in Plain English.
Common Craft owners Sachi and Lee LeFever are
dedicated to building a library of videos that are focused on helping influencers and educators create change through better explanations. Our videos are short, simple and focused on making complex ideas easy [...]
NMC’s Rock the Academy Virtual Conference
This news just in from the New Media Consortium: a virtual symposia exploring emerging forms of collaboration and tools. Anyone interested in co-presenting a project at Penn?
Rock the Academy
Radical Teaching, Unbounded Learning
The 12th in the Series of NMC Virtual Symposia
November 4-6, 2008, via the Internet
Proposals for presentations for Rock the Academy: Radical Teaching, Unbounded [...]
