Excerpts from my final paper on developing an Instructional Systems Development model for Distance Learning.
I review and comment on several articles related to online ISD development schemes – part 1
This entry is in response to applying my ISD model towards planned change and instructional development.
On this week’s readings: issues with formative evaluation, research, and application of it in real settings.
My ISD model development, as informed by Front-End Analysis studies
An Assessment Model for Content Creation in Distance Learning Environments for Higher Education
Examining Stephen Downes’ 2006 essay “Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge” – part 1
On a preliminary ISD model development effort informed by ADDIE, McLuhan, and Wilden
On re-reading Marshall McLuhan’s “Understanding Media” to understand more about Distance Learning: Hot and Cool media, Face-to-face learning and Distance Learning compared to pornography (again).
On re-reading Marshall McLuhan’s “Understanding Media” to understand more about Distance Learning, and learning though games.
On analog and digital communication theory, as proposed in Anthony Wilden’s article, “Analog and Digital Communication-On Negation, Signification and Meaning” – a prelude to forming a diagnostic tool for evaluating Distance Learning.
An exercise in comparing and contrasting Distance Learning and Pornography, Part 2
An exercise in comparing and contrasting Distance Learning and Pornography.
Some comments on having read half of Yong Zhao & Kenneth A. Frank’s paper on an ecological model for technology integration into classrooms.
On “feeling taught”, the ecology of face-to-face learning as rooted in evolution, and “my learning” as sentience similar to “my instincts” or “my love”.
On how being grilled as an employee in a high-pressure work environment has affected my learning ethic, my cynicism about hostile teachers, and why distance learning makes me panic.
Kaltura falls on its face. And I am having a manic obsession with hating on Distance Learning.
A new series of blog posts featuring Kaltura tools.
Here is a system for providing simultaneous views of a lecture and a wide range of view of other content in camera range. The OpenEyA system allows the viewer to select a range of the recorded image, and then focus in close-up to that range to view something like a blackboard or PPT presentation.
The uses [...]
Here is a new book by S. Craig Watkins called The Young and the Digital. It includes a chapter on synthetic worlds, among other online forms of connectivity. I will seek it out at the library and report my findings.