by kris | Dec 9, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
PSA, like the practitioners I follow in online communities, is looking for both an effective online learning experience as well as the face to face support available for youth and adults with low literacy skills. One of the groups I follow is the Adult Education LINCS...
by andflywrite | Dec 7, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
A tiny college based on socratic dialogue on great books has been ranked in some list as worst college in US, prompting editors at newspapers to send reporters out for a story. The Guardian filed this report, which emphasizes the unique and dramatically non mainstream...
by gary575 | Dec 6, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
One knows that the field has grown quite broad when there is a curated list of this number of sources. Clearly there is a need for an advanced search function to be able to locate specific content across the multitude of sites and platforms.
by andflywrite | Dec 5, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
Jer Thorp does a TED talk on what he does, which is take data and turn it into a graphical “narrative” for the NYTimes, and others. He finds a way to help us see the meaning, and the human story, in data. Jer Thorp’s work focuses on adding meaning and...
by andflywrite | Dec 5, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
Two key components of motivation are autonomy and mastery. Autonomy is giving your learners the freedom to choose how they learn. Mastery is providing visible recognition when competence is reached. Both of these areas can be addressed by applying gamification...
by andflywrite | Dec 3, 2014 | BEST LINKS EVER
The US Federal Government creates a lot of media for various uses, and some of it is in the public domain, and royalty free use is possible. One needs to find just the right clip in a very large archive, and one would hope to be able to locate “good...
