Designing online learning environment: Web 2.0 Connected Learning

We’ve looked at interests power the drive and influencing learners to develop their motivation. Hamilton & Jago highlighted interests connected learning does not just rely on the innate interests of the individual learner, but views interests and passions as something to be actively developed in the context of personalised learning pathways that allow for specializedContinue reading “Designing online learning environment: Web 2.0 Connected Learning”

The Last Bookshop

See on Scoop.it – Learning Happens Everywhere! http://www.thelastbookshop.co.uk The Last Bookshop imagines a future where physical books have died out. One day, a small boy’s holographic entertainment fai… miracletrain‘s insight: It is very sad to see our lives and future generations completely immersed in a digitla world, surrouded by all the coolest gadgets but nothingContinue reading “The Last Bookshop”

Class Central

See on Scoop.it – Learning Happens Everywhere! Class Central is a free online course aka MOOC aggregator from top universites like Stanford, MIT, Harvard, etc. offered via Coursera, Udacity, edX, & others miracletrain‘s insight: How nice to have a site like this, which it listed out all the courses on MOOCs by catagory and relevance.Continue reading “Class Central”

MOOCs and Libraries: New Opportunities for Librarians

See on Scoop.it – Learning Happens Everywhere! “This video is of the “New Opportunities for Librarians: What Happens When You Go Behind the Lines in a MOOC?” session at the 18-19 March 2013 “MOOCs and Libraries: Massive Opportunity or Overwhelming Challenge?” event hosted by OCLC Research and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. As we learnContinue reading “MOOCs and Libraries: New Opportunities for Librarians”

Infographic Builders: 9 Free Tools To Create Great Visual Charts

See on Scoop.it – Learning Happens Everywhere! Check them all out: http://www.infographicsarchive.com/create-infographics-and-data-visualization/ ; (Unearted by Andres Taborga) See on http://www.infographicsarchive.com

Motivational Strategies

I think every educator knows the challenge of stimulating and sustaining leaner motivation and the difficulty of finding reliable and valid methods for motivating learners. In digital world, technology is making rapid progress reslising the personalised learning dream with adaptive learning technology. Such as Codecademy and Khan Academy as “the future of learning”, these learning platforms primarily offer learnersContinue reading “Motivational Strategies”