Perhaps falling under an ‘Obvious’ category, Campus Technology concludes:
“Podcasting does not contain any inherent value. It is only valuable inasmuch as it helps the instructor and students reach their educational goals, by facilitating thoughtful, engaging learning activities that are designed to work in support of those goals.”
We here at Praxis see technology as ‘plumbing’ so […]
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Continuing on our theme of mobile learning (with all the iPhone madness going on), I thought this presentation by Ajit Jaokar from futuretext entitled “Mobile Web 2.0, Mobile Widgets, Microlearning and Intertwingularity” fit right in:
We’ve made a number of big additions to the service recently (i.e. The Fix, Qing Wen, and soon to be released mobile review site) so we’ve updated the Product Comparison Charts to help you choose the subscription that suits your needs.
We are in the midst of adding The Fix and a QA show […]
Today with the help of Netvibes we are launching a ‘Netvibes Universe’ for both ChinesePod and SpanishSense. Netvibes is a leading provider of personalized homepages, along with iGoogle, Pageflakes, etc. We have been looking at a number of ways to customize the learning experience and using Netvibes is one good way to start along […]
We get a fair amount of feedback on our belief that lessons should be distinct, non-sequential, learning objects. While we have experimented with linear narratives, such as the lover’s tale on ChinesePod, we produce each lesson with the thinking that it is an individual entity that can be re-mixed by anyone that feels so inclined.
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With our feature in The Economist this week, we have been getting a lot of feedback asking us if we have plans for other language products. We thought this would be a good opportunity to put the polling plug-in back up on the blog and ask you:
What other languages would you like us to do […]
With the growing popularity of our Practice Plan, we have been looking at adding additional management tools to help support its three primary functions: needs analysis, course design and on-going speaking practice. This research has brought us in direct contact with more traditional, ‘Learning 1.0′ if you will, course management systems, such as Blackboard, Angel […]
The 21st Century Campus
Published by May 20th, 2007 in Integrated Learning and Praxis Language. 2 CommentsWhile Blackboard created a lot of angst in the e-learning community last year when they tried to enforce their patent on learning management systems, they are the dominant e-learning provider (helped by their WebCT acquisition) in the United States with ~80% market share. While I personally disagree with their use of proprietary, closed systems, they […]
via The Strength of Weak Ties blog, on the debate (distraction vs. study tool) whether or not to allow iPods in the classroom:
Better yet, maybe they could find a way to use those electronic devices in instruction. For example, could kids sit in a study hall and learn Chinese if they had an iPod? Sure […]
An interesting Open Source podcast discussion from Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post on how ‘quality’ content will become more valuable in the future (~ timestamp 5:00 - 12:00).
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Murdoch Connection
The discussion was sparked by Rupert Murdoch’s bid for the Wall Street Journal. Via a Forbes article, Murdoch describes the current media revolution:
Fans of small niches […]
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