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What’s wrong with Virtual Campuses?
According to Wikipedia, a Course Management System -CMS hereinafter- is equivalent to a Virtual Learning Environment, and can be defined as “Web-based platform for the digital aspects of courses of study, usually within educational institutions” (Wikipedia, n. d. ). Nonetheless, if we try to find an alternative definition using Google
Teach the Teachers -review
Only if teachers are trained and acquire experience using learning technologies they will be likely to succeed using those technologies in their own classes. This is one of the main observations contained in the article “Teach the Teachers” written by Edinger, Reimer and van der Vlies (2013). The conclusion is that […]
Application in Database Class II
Phase II: Connectivism Last week all the separate wikis were made visible, and thus we started the connectivist phase. They can be browsed at http://dbavanzado.wikispaces.com/. Basically, we have constructed knowledge (blue cells in the chart below), and learners has become experts in different topics. Now it’s time to connect those nodes […]
Application in Database Class I
This is a real application of Constructivism and Connectivism in classroom using wiki. In particular, it is a course about Databases (MySQL and Oracle), part of a Vocational Technical Training program. The application of this experience with wiki started last Tuesday, and it has two main phases: The first is […]
Policy Paper: Wiki Technology in new Learning – I
This paper contains the background of the experiences reported in this section. It has been divided into two parts, to make the post more friendly. The first part focus on the theory, while the second focus on the real experiences. It was written as part of EDTED 467 Course, Emerging […]