Archive for August, 2008

Educational Technology in E-Assessment: Focused on the Performance of eLearning

From the definition of E-assessment from Wikipedia, we can see the advantages of deploying an e-testing system are obvious: lower long-term cost, instant feedback, great flexibility, improved reliability and enhanced question styles. We, especially teachers, cannot refuse so many advantages here over traditional assessment. With some authoring tools, we may create high quality assessment items [...]

Posted by admin on August 27th, 2008

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The Way Scoring Test in eLearning: We Need Online Score Reporting for Effective Quizzes and Exams

Have you ever considered how to set up your online quizzes and exams to impact learning and success? Or have you ever wondered what’s the best way to use to improve blended eLearning? We explored many of the facets of online assessment, and found that the segment of score reporting leads the assessment efficiency, and [...]

Posted by admin on August 25th, 2008

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The Most Wanted Resources for Teachers, Professors and Educators, Just Go to Pink Flamingo

I came across the teaching professional Kate Britt’s Pink Flamingo’s Resource Lists site when I’m looking for some useful links for educators’ virtual classroom around the Internet. Perhaps it’s the title “Pink Flamingo” like the well-known movie (sorry for any inappropriateness or impoliteness) attracted me, but finally I’m definitely interested in those resources, which are [...]

Posted by wpeterson on August 22nd, 2008

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Evaluate Social Media outside Classroom: Don’t Ignore the Business Value of Web 2.0 Learning Tools

To incorporate the Web 2.0 technologies into classrooms, we’re pulling blogs, wikis, tagging, media sharing, and other tools familiar to Web 2.0 community crowd. So many Web 2.0 tools for eLearning is waiting for us here, so I strongly recommend Jane Hart’s latest “Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008“, which is compiled from the contributions [...]

Posted by wpeterson on August 21st, 2008

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Web 2.0 Approach to eLearning Times: What Teachers Can Do on Facebook

Undoubtedly, the term Web 2.0 is spoiled by all its pros and cons. The derivation from Web 2.0 is impacting the living as well as the development of concepts such as eLearning 2.0. But most of the “2.0″s are concepts and attempts only. I imagined the Web 2.0 eLearning at the post “Learning Frontier: Integrate [...]

Posted by wpeterson on August 20th, 2008

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[Referral] Learning Frontier: Integrate the Social Collaboration Technology into eLearning: Web 2.0 eLearning?

It’s not that easy to build up the eLearning 2.0, because we still cannot define what exactly it is. Generally as we talked about here, eLearning 2.0 is the evolution of traditional eLearning and Web 2.0. What’s the collaboration on our experiences on such called Web 2.0 eLearning?
Clark Quinn, PhD describes a great practice about [...]

Posted by admin on August 19th, 2008

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