Okay, so this study isn't scientific, and dang it, I've got no time to write more on this, but I had to post the link Study Says Drop out of school (via digg). The link goes to this blog . As a father of 3 kids, all in school, this does not surprise me. They have my kids for six hours a day and can't seem to teach them anything...whats up with that? Anyone interested in starting a virtual school? I figure between ELGG, mediawiki, MOODLE, Secondlife, and now Elluminate, we can get some serious educating done on the cheap. Teachers could make a heck of a lot more money...and all would ...

For an upcoming panel session that will be looking at where eLearning is going, I was trying to get a ballpark sense of how much eLearning is being done with various tools as an indicator of where we stand in terms of adoption of eLearning 1.0, 1.3 and 2.0 . Heidi Fisk suggested I look at the eLearningGuild research reports. It gives some interesting indications: Number of evaluations by eLearningGuild Members of the use of the types of tools: Courseware authoring tools - 4,000 Rapid eLearning authoring tools - 3,000 MediaWiki - 40 users This analysis is very crude as compared ...

... on my "research" (i.e. reading, talking, listening) by writing it down helps organize everything in my mind and allows me ... of that can be done on a single topic in a matter of hours: thinking, collaborating, sharing, reflecting, researching ... the tools. I believe MediaWiki is the single greatest learning tool you could implement in your organization. Its ... release of Google Gears MediaWiki (and ALL wikis for that matter) become infinitly more powerful once they re-code to ...

Last week my chances of getting a Wiki installed behind the firewall were looking terrible. I actually refocused on hosted solutions because the notion of installing MediaWiki behind the firewall was shot out of the water at first. Luckily we have a fired up tech support guy who is dying to get a Wiki up and going so that he can update it with the ... MediaWiki is now installed behind the firewall. The ball is now in my court to make it useful. Where do I begin? I was so ... of material to work with but I am not exactly sure of the best way to present it. My goal for now is to research ...

... fields. It is hosted by TECFA - an educational technology research and teaching unit at University of Geneva ... researchers ( you write); literature review tool; writing-to-learn environment for students ( they write ... 2008. Moved edutechwiki to another machine to make it a bit faster. Upgraded to Mediawiki 1.13. June 2008. EduTech ... 1.12, more extensions added, e.g. "who is online", Graphviz, Edit Warning. September 19 2007: Upgrade to MediaWiki ... Research methodologies Maintenance under construction , stubs , incomplete . Retrieved ...

Duck Soup: Using a Blog to Provide Product Support - Karen Harker, Digital Infrastructure Research & Development ... Patrick Michaud (creator of PmWiki). Screencast: Using Mediawiki Open-Source Software as Infrastructure for ...

... scenarios"-–are emerging. In CMS Watch’s vendor evaluation research, we’ve identified 11 common social ... would find in these dedicated wiki tools. Atlassian —Confluence MediaWiki —MediaWiki ...

... â?? Moodle, Sakai (LMS) â?? Wordpress (blogs) â?? Drupal (CMS) â?? Mediawiki (wikis) â?? Open Journal ... content Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain ... research for their courses The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology ... /mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page Slide 184: Online certificate program in HIV/AIDS Program Administration with Regional ...

... about their various thoughts on the method of running online courses with a MediaWiki (pioneered by Dave Wiley) with insight ... presence before attempting formal learning. Konrad talks to his middle school teaching experiences but his research and ... Otago, Dunedin will be talking about her international renowned research into bedsharing. Sally says "We videoed infants ... particular interest to nurses and midwives. Dr Deborah Davis presents the results of her PhD research conducted in ...

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... currently funding a project to develop an open source extension for MediaWiki software for users to generate their own ... is pretty significant because any free content project using Mediawiki will be able to implement this technology ... researched the archives and found the original reporting, [1991-94] and the sound of â??Wowâ?? could be heard around the ...

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... research and professional dialog in the facilitation of online communities. After completing this course people should ... by grad students who are using Second Life as part of their academic research. My discussion focused on the importance of research ethics in virtual worlds. Fantastic group of folks, and they have an excellent wiki with more information ... presentation and discussion around Konrads research in developing a community or writers through blogging. Blogosphere ... . Extra resources Video by CommonCraft on Blip.tv: Wikis in Plain English Help with using a MediaWiki ...

... like to see more of this kind of research in fact to go along with usability tests and statistics taking. In the end, I ... system that Wikipedia uses (it’s called MediaWiki ), so if you are familiar with one, you will be familiar ...