Understanding Adult Learning

This article discusses how to integrate adult learning theories while designing an online environment to meet the needs of adult students. http://www.editlib.org/f/24286

ELearning Space

What do we know about learning? This website focuses on technology, teaching, and learning. Technology has had a focus with designing tools that are supposed to perfect the mind. As we are all aware technology has been prominent in communication and learning. Technology has also played a role in classrooms through the use of movies, recorded video lectures, and overhead projectors. Emerging technology use is growing in communication and in creating, sharing, and interacting around content. A PDF version of the Handbook is also available. http://www.elearnspace.org/about.htm

Understanding RSS Feeders!

This video "RSS in Plain English" introduces RSS as a way to subscribe to websites and save time on the Web. It focuses on the "old vs. new" way to understand how RSS feeders work. The video includes: •The new and old ways of reading news on the web •An introduction to RSS Readers (using Google Reader as an example) •How to identify and subscribe to an RSS feed •What to expect when using an RSS reader http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english

The Network Student

This video was created by CommonCraft and it does an excellent job of explaining what a truly networked student looks like. And more importantly, what would be a teacher's role for a "Network Student". http://www.teach42.com/2008/12/06/the-networked-student-in-plain-english/

Connectivism

This reading is about a theory known as Connectivism. George Siemens considers that technology and student meaningingfulness as learning activities are the starting points to begin to move learning into the digital age” (2005). Siemens contends that learners must create networks which are connections between entities to facilitate and support the learning process. If students learn how to use the following networks: people, technology, social structures, systems and power grids - learners will establish learning communities in order to share their ideas with others. http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/index.php?title=Connectivism

Learning and Instructional Theories Tips

This is an amazing article! Why? It is a database that focuses on brief summaries that relate to fifty (50) major theories in the study of learning and instruction. http://tip.psychology.org