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Internet access using facebook drones

Mark Zuckerberg announced last night that Facebook has brought on “key members” of the staff of Ascenta, a small company based in southwestern England, to develop high-altitude solar-powered drones that could help supply internet access to remote areas. The value of...

Story board for course design

The Carpe Diem MOOC lays out a process for online course design.  One of the steps in the process is the story board.  Here is an example of the story board for the Carpe Diem course design process.  Here is an example of the story board a fellow Seahorse in my group...

Gamification of education infographic

On this site, I subscribed to the feed for the “best education infographics”. The infographic on “gamification of education” is a good example of how infographics may be used in PSA content to explain a concept, such as...

Personas for learning design

As PSA begins designing a DLE for learners, we may want to consider identifying a template to understand our expected learners. This is a persona method I found while working with the Carpe Diem MOOC. Personas are a tool for sharing our understanding of our expected...

Social learning construct support-the Sherpa

In this video, Gilly Salmon describes the role of the discussion e-moderator as a “sherpa” assisting learners in climbing a mountain.  The Carpe Diem Mooc process includes small groups in discussion working on a collaborative online course activity. My...