No Significant Difference Phenomenon

Diese Website gibt einen interessanten Überblick über Untersuchungen von 1928-2005, die versucht haben (ohne Erfolg) Medienwirkungen zu belegen. This website has been designed to serve as a companion piece to Thomas L. Russell’s book, "The No Significant Difference Phenomenon" (2001, IDECC, fifth edition). Mr. Russell’s book is a fully indexed, comprehensive research bibliography of 355 […]


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Teaching Social Software with Social Software

Teaching Social Software with Social Software by Ulises Mejias This article explores how the current wave of information and communication technologies (ICTs) known as social software can enable new forms of study and research, preparing students to participate in networks where knowledge is collectively constructed and shared. This approach to learning, which I call distributed […]


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Uses and Potentials of Wikis in the Classroom

Uses and Potentials of Wikis in the Classroom (S. Pixy Ferris and Hilary Wilder) S. Pixy Ferris and Hilary Wilder discuss the changes that are occurring in teaching and learning in a world where teachers and students are increasingly products of two different learning cultures. Adopting the linguistic theory of Walter J. Ong, they see […]


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Portfolios

Salzburg Research hat ihre Homepage aktualisiert mit einem Kapitel über Portfolios. Sehr interessant: Kompetenzbasiertes Lernen mit neuen Medien Weinert (2001, S. 27f) definiert Kompetenzen als „kognitive Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten, um bestimmte Probleme zu lösen, sowie die damit verbundenen […] Fähigkeiten, um die Problemlösungen […] erfolgreich und verantwortungsvoll nutzen zu können«. Die Rahmenbedingungen für kompetenzbasiertes Lernen […]


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