Making the Case for Education 2.0 in Schools

Making the Case for Education Technology 2.0, University 2.0, and E-learning 2.0
Why should students use advanced technologies like web 2.0 tools in the classroom environment. The following three videos provide incredible insight along with the suggestions for further research at the bottom. Hopefully, this can help those who are forced to answer the [...]

Books and Resources on Corporate Learning and Training 2.0

1) Digital Game Based Learning, By Marc Prensky
2) E-learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multi-media Learning, By Ruth Colvin Clark, Richard E. Mayer
3) How to Measure Training Results: A Practical Guide to Tracking the Six Key Indicators, By Jack Phillips and Ron Stone
4) Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: [...]

10 Things I Learned at Nashville Startup Weekend

10 Things I Learned at Nashville Startup Weekend about Entrepreneurship and Business
I recently attended Nashville Startup Weekend at the Owen School of Business at Vanderbilt University and had a great time. I participated with the team that worked on Planet PE, an e-learning startup focused on physical education curriculum:

1) Scenario model for pitches is [...]

Information Aggregators and Dashboards

On the Value of Information Aggregation
As the information arms race practically explodes our collective brains, the role and importance of information aggregation will dramatically increase. Hongwei Zhu, Michael D. Siegel, and Stuart E. Madnick from the MIT Sloan School of Management highlighted the importance of information aggregation back in 2001:
We have seen dramatic growth in [...]

Challenges and Disadvantages of E-learning and Distance Learning

Challenges and Disadvantages of E-learning and Distance Learning
Higher Education e-learning and high school virtual schooling is currently broken. Here are some of the challenges (and ultimately opportunities) that I see in the distance learning and e-learning literature as I’ve reviewed it. The question becomes…can high school and higher ed e-learning meet the task? [...]

Best of Social Media and the University Classroom

Best of Social Media and Tech Education in the University Classroom

I’ve compiled what I think are the most relevant, interesting, and forward thinking posts from Compassion in Politics about social media and the university classroom all in one handy blog post. I’ve included issues of a comprehensive list of issues related to educational technology [...]

Reviews of Social Media in the Classroom Textbooks

Classroom 2.0: Reviews of the Best Social Media Technology in the Classroom Textbooks
I just received “Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools in the Classroom” and “Re-inventing Project Based Learning” both produced by the folks at ISTE. I think both are worth the money (each runs between $24 and $34 either on Amazon or from [...]

Career Services 2.0

What will the student of the next generation need to know?
What skills, technologies, and offerings will be part of University Career Centers of the next generation? What will drive career services to keep up with workplace innovation and collaboration?
Social networking skills-From Facebook, Linked In, Ning, and Jibber Jobber as well as industry [...]

My Review of “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns”

My Review of “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns”
I’ve already summarized the key points in Clayton Christensen’s vision articulated in “Disrupting Class.” I’ve decided to provide my own perspective on Clayton’s prognostications and prescriptions.
Initially, “Disrupting Class” is quite good. I think he does a great [...]

Second Annual New Media Summit in Denver Colorado

David Cohen recorded this panel from Press Club in Denver, Colorado. According to Cohen its “Brad Feld, Veronica Belmont, JB Holston, and Phil Weiser discuss new media trends in the Second Annual New Media Summit presented by Metzger Associates.”
What is the future of the web? What is web 3.0?
“More folks having more control [...]

Proposed Technology Literacy Certification Curriculum

Why Do We Need a Technology Literacy Certification Curriculum?
Increasingly there are micro-tools which empower workers to publish and businesses to run efficiently. But how can training be formalized and valued within organizations? And how can organizations know if a person has all the requisite tools and experience? I firmly believe there is [...]

The Open Source University: Why University Professors Should Link Out

Ryan Sholin at Publishing 2.0 recently published an article “Why we link: A brief rundown of the reasons news organizations needs to tie the web together” and I saw a direct application to University content creators and university professors who are bloggers. Here is a brief summary of the reasons Ryan highlights:
1. Because we [...]

Principles of Teaching in a Digital Age Panel at Vanderbilt

Warning:this video is an hour and a half long…I have summarized some of the salient points + a great deal is direct quotes.
What does the panel cover? Vanderbilt points out:
Teaching in a Digital Age: How Should Technologies Shape Our Learning Space and Pedagogical Practices?
According to a recent YouTube video, a [...]

What would university 2.0 look like?

Here are 25 Core Curriculum Based Components of University 2.0:
I’m not saying that the university should suddenly add 25 courses to their curriculum, but to understand these areas outside the ways in which the web is effecting their production, transmission, marketing, and sales (from top to bottom of the creation and consumption….including a whole host [...]

How college professors can use social media and web 2.0

There are a number of social media tools that university professors can leverage in and out of their classroom. Many teachers are using facebook groups to communicate outside the classroom. In addition, another option is the free social network Ning, which allows teachers or anyone for that matter to create a social network [...]

Health 2.0: Google Maps Mash ups for Disease Tracking

Google Maps Mashups for International Health
Here is a mash up that folks at Ohio State University are working on:

Find more google maps mashups for health on Google.national

University 2.0: Web 2.0 for Higher Education

University 2.0: Web 2.0 for Higher Education
Certainly social bookmarking and sharing sites like delicous, Zotero, and Diigo would have to make the list.
Social networks like Ning and Crowdvine and wikis like PBWiki, Social Text, and Wikispaces would also top the list of college 2.0 technology tools. Publishing tools like WordPress, Vimeo, and the assortment [...]

21st Century Skills for University Students

Beyond creativity and critical thinking skills there are very niche skills which deserve an entirely new class in the University system. It include 28 core ideas, as well as the 3 practical add ons for a total of 31. If you would like to revisit my earlier discussion of 21st century skills please [...]

“Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach The New Survival Skills Our Children Need–and What We Can do About It.”

Are we educating like its 1999?….Or Worse 1959 or perhaps the 1800s?
The Internet is a Ubiquitous Part of the “Net Generation’s” Daily Lives
“In the simpliest terms, they are coming of age while tethered to the Internet, as well as to a host of instant communication devices that were unimaginable twenty years ago.”
-Tony Wagner, “Global Achievement [...]

Distance Education and E-learning for K-12 Companies

Here is a list of e-learning companies and distance education solutions providers for k-12 education.
Blackboard E-learning
Adobe E-learning Solutions
Emantras E-learning Solutions for K-12: Engage, Empower, Educate
Desire to Learn
Moodle-open source platform for the distribution of distance learning and e-learning curriculum for K-12 students
K-12 provides public, Private, and Home Schooling Curriculum which means online High School, Elementary, [...]

Social Media in Higher Education the (in)Complete Story

How are students, faculty, and administration using social media in education?
Should they be using these new social tools?
How can they students, faculty, and administrators best leverage these tools?
I’ve tried to answer these questions about teaching and learning in a web 2.0 university setting….and here are some of the answers:
University 2.0: The ManifestoThe Use of Social [...]