29.7.06

internet: tourism

Online Search Drove Nearly 10 Million UK Travel Purchases between December 2005 and February 2006 >>>

28.7.06

26.7.06

internet: cultural heritage

Latvia launches virtual museum project >>>

internet: search engines

Podscope, the audio-video search engine >>>

20.7.06

eLearning: great!

Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching,
Educational Psychologist, 2006, Vol. 41, No. 2, Pages 75-86
by
Paul A. Kirschner​‌
Educational Technology Expertise Center, Open University of the Netherlands, Research Centre Learning in Interaction, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
John Sweller​‌
School of Education, University of New South Wales
Richard E. Clark​‌
Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California

ABSTRACT:
Evidence for the superiority of guided instruction is explained in the context of our knowledge of human cognitive architecture, expert–novice differences, and cognitive load. Although unguided or minimally guided instructional approaches are very popular and intuitively appealing, the point is made that these approaches ignore both the structures that constitute human cognitive architecture and evidence from empirical studies over the past half-century that consistently indicate that minimally guided instruction is less effective and less efficient than instructional approaches that place a strong emphasis on guidance of the student learning process. The advantage of guidance begins to recede only when learners have sufficiently high prior knowledge to provide "internal" guidance. Recent developments in instructional research and instructional design models that support guidance during instruction are briefly described.

12.7.06

internet: MySpace Rules the Web

social networking power >>>

7.7.06

internet: l'altra copertina

la versione rilegata di: L. Cantoni & S. Tardini, Internet, Routledge, London and New York 2006

internet: search engines

shopwiki search by color >>>
Pay-Per-Percentage of Impressions: An Advertising Method that is Highly Robust to Fraud, by Joshua Goodman (Microsoft Research) >>>
Edward Tse - Interactions Inventor: look at the video!

6.7.06

amministrazione pubblica: due programmi di eccellenza

Accelerated Executive Development Program (AEXDP), Canada >>>
UK Public Sector Training >>> (especially learders UK >>>)

5.7.06

internet: Over 50% of New Hires were sourced from the Internet in 2005

2006 DirectEmployers Association Recruiting Trends Survey >>>

4.7.06

eLearning: elections

eLections: a very interesting game >>>

1.7.06

un nuovo libro!


Da leggere!
Hans Sedlmayr, La rivoluzione dell'arte moderna & Memorandum sull'arte ecclesiastica cattolica, con Premesse di S.E. Mons. Mauro Piacenza, di Alessandro Pagano e di Massimo Lippi, a cura di Lorenzo Cantoni, Cantagalli, Siena 2006.

29.6.06

eLearning: GLOBE

The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) is an international consortium that strives to make shared online learning resources available to educators and students around the world. The consortium provides a distributed network of learning objects that meet quality standards.
GLOBE aims to connect the world and unlock the ‘deep web’ of quality online educational resources through brokering relationships with content providers >>>

eLearning: Literature Review in Games and Learning

A Report for Futurelab by John Kirriemuir, Ceangal & Angela McFarlane, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol >>>

27.6.06

eLearning: LAMS

per la gestione di attività (anche/soprattutto collaborative) LAMS >>>
la prima LAMS Conference >>>

eLearning: e3Learning

worth a visit, especially "enrich" and "evaluate" >>>

eLearning. Silversprite

Examples of COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) games being used for curriculum-based learning. These games are designed purely for entertainment, and not for learning or teaching. By compiling these examples, we show that such games are being used in schools and colleges by teachers and other educators, as part of curriculum-based learning >>>

23.6.06

eLearning: USALearning (formerly GoLearn.gov)

The one-stop source for training and development products, tools, and services sponsored by the e-Training Initiative and the e-Training Service Provider Consortium >>>

eLearning: CNN Pipeline

an interview with Porter Anderson, CNN Pipeline Senior Producer, by Elliott Masie >>>

technology: preservation of digital content

The Library of Congress will provide approximately $700,000 over three years to Stanford in support of CLOCKSS, a collaborative initiative between publishers, librarians and universities to create a large-scale archive that will serve as a fail-safe repository for published digital scholarly content >>>