EdTechWeekly+180

aEdTechWeekly #180
//January 23, 2010// //When? http://bit.ly/fT8woW//

**Regular hosts:** Dave, Jen, John **Guest hosts:**
 * Richard Schwier (yay!) -> follow at http://twitter.com/schwier ... Rick Schwier is a professor of educational technology and design at the University of Saskatchewan -> see http://schwier.ca
 * Zac Chase --> follow at http://twitter.com/mrchase ... Zac Chase is an English teacher at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. He blogs at http://autodizactic.com


 * This week's topics of conversation:**


 * Dave's Links: Money and education. Are we seeing more 'commercial interest' now or is it just more apparent?ihttp://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2011/01/learning-analytics-2011-is-the-place-to-be.html http://tonysearl.posterous.com/giddy-up-whorsey
 * Jen's Links: Jen wants to talk "learning outcomes" ... What are they? The means (the learning process ... interaction, activity, engagement)? Or the ends (tada! See ... Timmy learned it)? Depending on the answer ... how should we measure learning outcomes? Her inspiration for the topic:
 * Our guest who thinks about this for a living (yay!!)
 * Those with a foot in the means camp: http://learninganalytics.net/syllabus.html
 * Those with a foot in the ends camp: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110118/ap_on_re_us/us_college_learning
 * Her dissertation (yawn)
 * John's Links: The death of RSS
 * Google Replaces Reader Link with Photos: []
 * Paperli: []
 * Bloglines rises from the dead: []
 * Rick's Links: Rick wants to talk about informal online learning and how it compares to the formal approaches we all know and love (oops... guess I tipped my hand on being in the learning process camp). I'll dig out a couple of relevant links and add them here soon. In the meantime, off to catch this train @ http://www.taieri.co.nz/. Okay, back from the train ride -- and it was great! We could just talk about that.
 * Palloff and Pratt kicked off a lot of what became the agenda for virtual learning communities - almost exclusively about formal education. Here's a taste of what they were once talking about: http://macqunilearners.pbworks.com/f/Building+Learning+Communities+In+Cyberspace.doc
 * Life has changed--or evolved. Here's a little ditty I put together that argues for a new research agenda: http://www.cedtech.net/articles/118.pdf
 * And a bit more about changing how we think about online learning from a paper presented at a gathering this summer with Jen: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2375895/new_metaphors.pdf
 * Zac's Links: EduConText: []