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YouTube - Student Voice – a film about visual learning

harryhaddon — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:23:26 +0000

This short film was produced by a group of Visual Learning Lab interns from the University of Nottingham. Based on a series of interviews conducted by VLL interns with fellow students on learning in HE, and in particular visual learning and related technology uses, this film presents findings and recommendations from the interview analysis by the VLL interns. The film is meant as a critical tool for triggering and supporting discussions about visual learning in HE by staff and students. It deliberately represents the students perceptions of visual learning. It is not meant to be representative, but offers a snapshot of some students views.

via YouTube - Student Voice – a film about visual learning.

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs

Oscar Retterer — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:54:25 +0000

Wikimedia Commons

Oscar Retterer — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:13:45 +0000

A database of 4,516,486 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute. More info …

U. of Missouri’s Journalism School Will Make iPod Touch, iPhone Mandatory for Students

Oscar Retterer — Sat, 09 May 2009 11:14:01 +0000

Yet another institution is touting the education-changing potential of yet another device. This time the college is University of Missouri’s Journalism School, which now plans to require that students purchase either Apple’s iPod Touch or its iPhone.

Students are supposed to use the gadgets to review lectures. The university chose the devices as the required media players because students are already used to them, Associate Dean Brian Brooks told the Columbia Missourian.

“Lectures are the worst possible learning format,” Mr. Brooks was quoted as saying. “There’s been some research done that shows if a student can hear that lecture a second time, they retain three times as much of that lecture.”

[Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus]