PRIMER CONGRESO DE EDUCACION VIRTUAL Octubre 10, 2009
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PRIMER CONGRESO DE EDUCACION VIRTUAL
bajo el tema:
CALIDAD Y MEJORES PRACTICAS DE LA EDUCACION VIRTUAL
PONCE, PUERTO RICO
HOTEL PONCE HILTON, 16 de octubre de 2009
En esta actividad presentaremos las estrategias de enseñanza y aprendizaje en ambientes virtuales necesarias para alcanzar el éxito en esta modalidad. Tendremos como orador principal al Dr. Claudio Rama quien ha sido conferencista en más de 116 universidades e instituciones académicas en más de 26 países, fundamentalmente de América Latina y el Caribe.
Sus últimas publicaciones han sido “Tendencias de la Educación Superior en el siglo XXI. Tomo II” (ANR, 2009); “Nuevos escenarios de la educación superior en América Latina” (Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, 2008) y “Tendencias de la educación superior de América Latina en el siglo XXI” (Asamblea Nacional de Rectores, Lima, 2008).
Contaremos con un panel de expertos en cursos a distancia que nos ofrecerán sus experiencias y compartirán sus mejores prácticas para ser efectivos con sus estudiantes. Ofreceremos talleres y charlas sobre innovaciones y estrategias para ser efectivos en los cursos en estas modalidades innovadoras.
El Congreso de llevará a cabo en el Hotel Hilton, Ponce Golf & Casino Resort el viernes 16 de octubre de 2009 de 8:00 a.m. a 4:30 p.m.
El Congreso terminará con la Asamblea de APAD, la activad en que se presentarán los logros de la Asociación, se discutirán los asuntos futuros y se elegirá la Junta de Directores para el próximo año.

Online learning more effective than face-to-face learning Julio 1, 2009
Posted by Antonio Vantaggiato in e-learning, educación 2.0.Tags: elearning, elearnmanifesto, media
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Digizen published a recent study sponsored by the US Department of Education which concludes that online learning is more effective than face to face “traditional” learning.
A systematic search of the research literature from 1996 through July 2008 identified more than a thousand empirical studies of online learning. Analysts screened these studies to find those that (a) contrasted an online to a face-to-face condition, (b) measured student learning outcomes, (c) used a rigorous research design, and (d) provided adequate information to calculate an effect size. As a result of this screening, 51 independent effects were identified that could be subjected to meta-analysis. The meta-analysis found that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction. The difference between student outcomes for online and face-to-face classes—measured as the difference between treatment and control means, divided by the pooled standard deviation—was larger in those studies contrasting conditions that blended elements of online and face-to-face instruction with conditions taught entirely face-to-face. Analysts noted that these blended conditions often included additional learning time and instructional elements not received by students in control conditions. This finding suggests that the positive effects associated with blended learning should not be attributed to the media, per se.
This is a big result and we all practicing in the field must feel quite at ease with it: we knew it from the start. Interestingly, the report says that
“the positive effects associated with blended learning should not be attributed to the media, per se”
Right and wrong at the same time. It’s right because it is likely the good results stem from better pedagogy and better awareness of the educational tech involved, combined with the ubiquity of the Web and its pervasiveness in all aspects of our lives. It’s not to be forgotten that our students have already appropriated some spaces (like facebook) within the Web!
But it is also wrong since it is clear from the times of McLuhan that the message is inseparable from the medium that “carries” it: it’s not so simple as a medium “containing” something which is then “delivered” to students. The media affect, change and is changed back by the so-called “content” they carry: thus the media, I believe, must be equally responsible for the “success” of eLearning than the methodology itself.

Moving to Educat10n 3.0 Mayo 25, 2009
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I need to repost this table from John Moravec’s educationfutures (on which I landed thanks to El Caparazón. Its implications for discussion on education are huge…
“Teachers are… everybody, everywhere”!


Symposium – Science & Web 2.0: A Dialogue Mayo 11, 2009
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Symposium “Science & Web 2.0: A Dialogue”
And now, it’s minus three days to the Symposium: Science & Web 2.0 to be held at Sagrado Corazón, May 15th, 8:00am-1:00pm. Registration is free through http://stemmed.sagrado.edu/simposio!
Get there early, and enjoy Mike Wesch’s keynote Mediated Culture / Mediated Education:
It took tens of thousands of years for writing to emerge after humans
spoke their first words. It took thousands more before the printing
press and a few hundred again before the telegraph. Today a new
medium of communication emerges every time somebody creates a new web application. A Flickr here, a Twitter there, and a new way of
relating to others emerges. New types of conversation, argumentation,
and collaboration are realized. Using examples from anthropological
fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, YouTube, university classrooms, and
“the future,” this presentation will demonstrate the profound yet
often unnoticed ways in which media “mediate” our conversations,
classrooms, and institutions. We will then apply these insights to an
exploration of the implications for how we may need to rethink how we
teach, what we teach, and who we think we are teaching.
Then, Daniel Altschuler’s keynote will be “Web 2.0 Comentarios en torno al uso y abuso del WWW” (Web 2.0 Comments about the use and abuse of the WWW).
After a short break, we’ll have a discussion panel, where three distinguished colleagues form the education/science community in Puerto Rico will comment the keynotes with the audience: Mario Núñez (UPR Mayagüez, Juan Meléndez (UPR Río Piedras) and José Córdova (USC).
Semana Web 2.0 en Puerto Rico Mayo 2, 2009
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Las próximas dos semanas en Puerto Rico nos presentan una serie impresionante de actividades sobre la Web 2.0. Veámos.
El próximo miércoles 6 de mayo de 2009, se celebrará en Caguas el 1er Encuentro Nacional de Blogueros , evento que pretende juntar a los miembros más destacados de la Blogosfera Boricua, en una serie de presentaciones y talleres que abrirán este mundo informativo al público en general. La entrada es gratuita. El programa incluye una introducción por el Alcalde de Caguas, Hon. William Miranda Marín y un saludo del organizador, el Sr. José Hernández Falcón (Chatmanía 2.0 @ Primera Hora). El keynote estará a cargo del Blogfesor Mario Núñez (DigiZen). El programa completo está aquí.
En segundo lugar, La colega Cristina Pomales de IDEAL (RUM-Mayagüez) sigue la tradición empezada por Mario Núñez con el Tercer Congreso de Blogfesores 2009, en el mismo Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez, el viernes 8 de mayo. Estaremos ahí también, para compartir con tod@s l@s colegas y presentar un proyecto de APAD (la Asociación Puertorriqueña de Aprendizaje a Distancia, que presido). El keynote de este Blogfesores 2009 estará a cargo de Jim Groom, excelentísimo bloguero educativo que trabaja desde su divertido e icónico bavatuesdays.
Finalmente, están calurosamente invitad@s el viernes 15 de mayo en la Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, donde mis colegas y yo estamos llevando a cabo el Simposio “Ciencias y Web 2.0: Un diálogo” de 8:30am a 1pm. El registro es gratuito y se efectua por Web: stemmed.sagrado.edu/simposio.También se puede conseguir info a través de facebook.
Dos keynotes excepcionales: Michael Wesch (¿recuerdan los vídeos “The Machine is Us/ing Us” y “A Vision of Students Today”?) y Daniel Altschuler (¿recuerdan el libro “Hijos de las Estrellas”?). Luego un panel con Mario Núñez, Juan (Tito) Meléndez, y José Córdova. Wow! ¡No falten!
Blogfesores 2009: 7/8 mayo 09 Marzo 25, 2009
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El Instituto para el Desarrollo de la Enseñanza y el Aprendizaje en Línea (IDEAL) y la Biblioteca General del Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez, convocan a todos los interesados a participar en el Tercer Congreso de Blogfesores que se celebrará el 7 y 8 de mayo de 2009 en el Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
El tema del congreso de este año será el Acceso Abierto (Open Access) desde el punto de vista del proceso de enseñanza/aprendizaje y de investigación/publicación.
Un keynote será a cargo de Jim Groom (¡a quien esperamos con mucha alegría!), la persona responsable del diseño y del éxito del sistema de blogs UMW Blogs de la University of Mary Washington (Virginia), y “blogger extraordinaire”.
Una segunda conferencia será dictada por Heather Morrison, una veterana del movimiento Open Access y miembro de la Facultad en la University of British Columbia’s School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies.
¡Va sin decir que estaremos por ahí!
Los diez artículos más leídos en eLearn Magazine en el 2008 Febrero 4, 2009
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Republico esta lista de los diez artículos más leídos del eLearn Magazine. Fue publicada por Lisa Neal en su blog The eLearn Blog. El pronombre “My” indica “de Lisa”, por supuesto.
1) Michelle Everson’s Group Discussion in Online Statistics Courses
2) Michael Feldstein and I wrote up work we had done for a consulting project in Designing Usable, Self-Paced e-Learning Courses: A Practical Guide
3) Roger Schank’s The Story-Centered Curriculum
4) Laurie Rowell’s feature article Can the “$100 Laptop” Change the World?
5) Eric Sauve’s Communities of Practice: Addressing Workforce Trends Through New Learning Models
6) One of my opinion columns, My Life as a Wikipedian
7 andMy interviews of Elliott Masie and Rich Mayer
9) Jay Cross, Tony O’Driscoll,and Eilif Trondsen wrote Another Life: Virtual Worlds as Tools for Learning
10) Karl Kapp’s review of Jane Bozarth’s E-learning Solutions on a ShoestringHonorable mention goes to Clare Gill’s Confessions of a Neophyte Distance Learner and Full-Time Procrastinator and Stephen Downes’ Ten Web 2.0 Things You Can Do…
Just behind that, inexplicably, was Predictions for 2007, which was slightly more popular than Predictions for 2008. Of course, the new Predictions for 2009 wasn’t even out.
2009 Horizon Report Enero 22, 2009
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At Educause ELI09 meeting, Larry Johnson (NMC’s CEO) presented the latest Horizon Report for 2009. The Report discusses the technologies which will be at the forefront of education during 2009 and it places them in three time horizons.
The technologies to watch are Mobiles, Cloud Computing, Geo-Everything, The Personal Web, Semantic-Aware Applications and Smart Objects.
Mobile technologies are letting the Internet converge with telephony and bring Web services to every corner, thus following everybody’s whereabouts. Cloud computing’s instances are deployed whenever we use Google Docs or whatever Web-based application in which data and the software itself is stored in “the cloud”, ie in (perhaps distributed fashion) server farms around the world. However, in the mid range timeframe, the Semantic Web and the Personal Web are likely to get a lot of attention in education. The Semantic-aware Web will allow machines to “understand” the meaning of searches we do and the information we need and seek. For instance, while today the answer to the question “How many world leaders are over the age of 60?” is scattered through Google’s search result, soon it may be looked up without hassle, directly. On the other hand…
Armed with tools for tagging, aggregating, updating, and keeping
track of content, today’s learners create and navigate a web that is
increasingly tailored to their own needs and interests: this is the
personal web.
The Horizon Report can be downloaded free through its website at the NMC. It comes in two versions: the classic pdf Report, and a more “web-friendly” version, which is done through WordPress’ CommentPress plugin, a fantastic technology in itself that showcases WP’s versatility as a great publiching anc content management platform. There’s also a Horizon wiki, which allows for continous collaboration on the Report’s issues.
Last, the Report will be published later in its classic square pamphlet formar. The Spanish version is being prepared by the Universitat Oberta de Catalonya (uoc.edu).

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