Category Archives: eLearning

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Teaching Machines

Posted on September 12, 2021 by x28

It is an important book, because without such a deep insight into the history of teacherless instruction, today’s new teaching machines are probably doomed to repeat some crucial errors over again. And it gets the reader inspired to ask themselves.
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Stubborn school administrations

Posted on November 30, 2020 by x28

We have an emergency! We cannot stubbornly stick to the prescribed catalog of stuff.
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Didactic sliders

Posted on August 29, 2020 by x28

I liked the idea of the sliders by Krommer, Klee & Wampfler (in particular, “As much simple technology as possible“), and I reused it in my simple Tool:

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Service interface

Posted on August 7, 2020 by x28

What personalized learning has in common with some productivity apps: a service interface.
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Intelligent textbooks, rejected

Posted on June 25, 2020 by x28

As expected, they rejected the paper, and probably they did not notice how much their response confirmed my observation: Continue reading →

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Is openness addictive?

Posted on August 31, 2010 by x28

Currently I am participating in a German online course that is conducted within a closed group. I am surprised how much I dislike this, and how I miss much of the openness of CCK08.
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Web 2.0 for Teaching

Posted on December 19, 2009 by x28

A new German publication dissects The deployment of Web 2.0 for teaching. A significant argument is that active students are always a minority. I think this is true when diversity and breadth of knowledge is mistaken for plain mass of content.
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Enchanted by the tools

Posted on August 30, 2009 by x28

Lisa Lane has a great advice for the unnecessarily intimidated among faculty: Playing around with online tools oneself, but not getting enchanted by the tools.
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Reusing paper resources online?

Posted on April 28, 2008 by x28

When online resources are optimized for print, it is often a pain to scan them to decide whether to print them or not.
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Research and Emptiness

Posted on October 19, 2006 by x28

A today’s newspaper article complains about the current financial promotion policy that divides universities into those with research and those that merely serve a cost-effective (i. e. lowbrow) training. It causes thinking about the underlying concept of learning and knowledge.
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