Hybrid Instructional Models

Create, collaborate, and deliver digital course materials that follow your custom curriculum. Include copyrighted works with automatic copyright clearance. Invite your students to a personal learning network to share resources, thoughts, and questions.

Interested in hybrid delivery models to improve access to secondary and post-secondary education and training for adult learners.

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Good example for PLAR Self-Diagnostic tool.

The U.S. Department of Education is pleased to announce the continuation of its Youth and Adult Pathways (YAP) Event Series, a new microgroup series within the Career Pathways community on the LINCS Platform. The YAP Event Series is designed to bring together professionals with a shared interest in connecting youth and adult learners with career pathways.

The latest from Remind101 (@remind101). A safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents. @cagarland tweeting!. San Francisco, CA

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are, typically, ungraded activities conducted in the classroom setting. Their purpose is to provide the instructor feedback on whether or not students understand course material so that adjustments can be made before the end of the term

What is the problem? Despite a considerable body of research around the role of feedback in supporting learning and evidence of what constitutes good and effective practice, our 2012 study of the assessment and feedback landscape (pdf) found that approaches to feedback in universities and colleges remain extremely diverse.

Wheel reinvention prevention or minimizing duplication of effort in designing assessments that inadvertently leads to assessment bunching and limited formative feedback and mastery of learning.

How to become a curation king / queen. Traditionally, a curator researches and puts together a collection which speaks to a narrative and / or serves a larger idea in art galleries and / or museums. In the current digital habitat, all can participate in this activity, so the challenge is honing the skills and leveraging the tools.

Lessons from the private sector on leveraging the capacity of social media in an organization. I like this point: Affinity, as he shared is emotional instead of logical, and long term as opposed to intention – which expires after some time. - See more at: http://usefulsocialmedia.com/embed-social/16-ways-make-social-media-more-effective#sthash.cfXYVfbL.dpuf

This excerpt is from a recent conversation on RetailWire, reproduced here with kind permission. Is marketing art or science? In a world of big data and adaptive technologies, this question should be front and centre in the education field where data-driven decision making threatens to usurp the "gut-vision" approach to creative problem solving.

“Like any moonshot, you have to think of time as a factor,” Mr. Andy Rubin at Google said. “We need enough runway and a 10-year vision.

Who would have thought that such a simple action can have such a profound effect on the level of happiness in our lives? Catch the setup in the first 30 seconds, the beauty of the experiment unfolding, the perfect moment at 4:25 that had me a bit choked up, and the best takeaway from it all at 6:25.

Awesome, fun, interesting videos and graphics about stuff that matters.

Storytelling is now accepted best practice for selling ideas into organisations. And for good reason: stories allow people to quickly understand complicated issues; to generate emotion to instill action; to spread the message without swamping your audience with data. The days of laboriously ploughing through slide after slide of PowerPoint should now be over.

Word Generation is a research-based vocabulary program for middle school students designed to teach words through language arts, math, science, and social studies classes. The program employs several strategies to ensure that students learn words in a variety of contexts. Could be adapted for hybrid learning with adults.

From one of the pioneers of MOOCs, George Siemens has been on the Agenda to talk about changing schools into knowledge-building communities.

Scroll down to this critique of Michael Barber:

‘“Deliverology” is a means to systematically demoralize and humiliate people in lieu of not being able to convince them to pursue a course of action. It is based on the fundamentally flawed idea that an organization or institution can be improved by “incentivizing” people to meet “targets” or what Achieve, Inc., insists educators obsess over: “benchmarks”. It is an autocratic, command-and-control management system that redefines public institutions (such as public schools) as factories, and displays an almost single-minded fixation on cost reduction. Deliverology is a means for transforming the goal of public institutions from meeting public needs to meeting arbitrary “production” “benchmarks” established by the autocrat under the hoax of saving taxpayer’s money.’ (Mark Garrison) - See more at: http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2013/10/24/eviscerating-education-through-deliverology/#sthash.jM8vJasM.dpuf

Do you know the actual theories of learning? Also, 5 ways to improve the way you use Twitter for professional development and networking.

Shows examples of tools by skills aligned to Bloom's taxonomy.

LiveBinders is your 3-ring binder for the web, create an online binder for content curation. This may be useful for hybrid courses.

Keepstream is a tool that allows you to curate internet content. The technology (or what are my powers?) You can sign up with Keepstream via your Twitter account and you'll automatically be able to access your Twitter stream and Facebook news, but Keepstream allows you to curate more than social media content.

In this recorded webinar, Infochimps Director of Product, Tim Gasper, discusses how Infochimps tackles business problems for customers by deploying a comprehensive Big Data infrastructure in days; sometimes in just hours. Watch as Tim unlocks how Infochimps is now taking that same aggressive approach to deliver faster time to value by helping customers develop analytic applications with impeccable speed.