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Learners' Participation, Retention and Success in e-learning: An Annotated Bibliography
By way of Michael & DEANZ - this elearning report out on Education Counts. Though this is tertiary research there is much of relevance for the schooling sector. "Peter Guiney (Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis) has released an annotated bibliography of literature related to participa...Tags: deanz, distance education association of new zealand, e-learning, education, high school, new zealand, research, virtual school
Celebrating our amazing young kiwi achievers - email from Robyn Boswell
The following email came through the TKI gifted & talented community mail list. Robyn Boswell QSM, a colleague with the Te Toi Tupu GATE PLD contract and a facilitator for the NZC and Science PLD contracts, is the National Director for Future Problem Solving NZ. The Awards Ceremony for the In...Tags: FPS, achievers, gifted, education, graduates, contributions
Taxonomies of learning and thinking - hierarchies, classifications & lists?
I received this email from Tracey Riley (Massey University) via the gifted@lists.tki.org.nz (it's worth joining) Subject: [gifted] The Diffentiator Hi! A student just alerted me to this website, which, while not perfect by any means, is good for reminding us of some of the key ideas aroun...Tags: thinking, learning, Blooms, taxonomies, differentiation, gifted, education
Virtual School MOOC – Introduction to K-12 Online Learning Research (10 September-07 October 2012)
A reminder about the Virtual School massive online open course (MOOC) entitled Introduction to K-12 Online Learning Research that will held from 10 September-07 October 2012. This MOOC will be designed to provide a broad overview of the field of K-12 online learning, specifically what is curren...Tags: cyber school, education, high school, massive open online course, MOOC, research, virtual school, vsmooc12
Virtual Learning Network-Community (VLN-C) Annual General Meeting
Rachel asked me to cross-post this from my blog at http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/virtual-learning-network-community-vln-c-annual-general-meeting/ This morning I had the pleasure of sitting in on the Virtual Learning Network-Community‘s (VLN-C) annual ...Tags: cyber school, education, high school, new zealand, virtual learning network, virtual learning network-community, vln, vln-c, virtual school
Call for Submissions: Themed Issue of the Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning
The Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning is a refereed journal published at least twice annually by the Distance Education Association of New Zealand (www.deanz.org.nz). It publishes articles relating to primary research investigations, literature reviews, the application of distance e...Tags: articles, cyber school, deanz, distance education association of new zealand, e-journals, education, high school, journal of open flexible and distance learning, new zealand, online journals, open access, research, virtual school
Cathy Davidson's blog - Standardizing Human Ability
Cathy's opening statement for her blog: http://dmlcentral.net/blog/cathy-davidson/standardizing-human-ability "Here’s a thought experiment. Let’s try to imagine a society (there were lots of them before modernity) where there is no interest in measuring educational success.&nbs...Tags: abilities, disabilities, standardisation, education