by kris | Mar 31, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
I just signed up for a new Edx MOOC: 11.127x design and development of games for learning, starting on April 1, 2015 and running 9 weeks, asynchronous. The course is free to audit but I opted for a payment of $50, mainly to see if it helped my commitment level. The...
by andflywrite | Mar 27, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
As has been previously reported, various big internet companies have announced plans to provide internet access from platforms at high altitudes…but much below the distances of satellites… which would cover most, or perhaps all, of the hard to reach and...
by andflywrite | Mar 23, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
Recent correspondent with PSA and OTL leader out of Boston, David Rosen, put together a page of links for “Computer Literacy”. This is just one of a number of good resources he has suggested and that we’ll be posting here in days and weeks to...
by andflywrite | Mar 23, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
The Presidential Primary sources project (PPSP) offers a series of free, fifty-minute, interactive videoconferencing programs to students all over the world. PPSP is a collaboration between the National Park Service, U.S. Presidential Libraries and Museums, other...
by andflywrite | Mar 23, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
As Kris recently posted, Digital Learning Day just happened, and this is just to embed that video in a post directly from YouTube and bring this worthy video to our attention again, and to again note that previous year’s webcasts are available here. Kudos to...
by andflywrite | Mar 23, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
Because OTL might be lacking some of the coercive motivational factors of traditional education, and takes place in environments which might be rich in competitive demands on attention, OTL needs to “capture the imagination” of learners. That’s...