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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Top 50 e Learning Super Heroes on Planet Earth!

Congratulations to ALL that made the Top 50 e-Learning Super Heroes list! The results are based on 1861 voters from around world.

If you didnt make it, please revisit and enjoy the complete list (220) of Top e-Learning Movers and Shakers in 2013 (TEMS13) or the TEMS13 Award Winners and various Top 10 Lists.

Before, going any further, I would like to personally congratulate and thank all the sponsors for their wonderful support during the TEMS13 project! International Medical University, International Medical College (New), iBerry, WizIQ and Listly...Thank you!

E-LEARNING SUPER HERO OF 2013 AWARD?

While the TEMS13 Award was about winning MOST VOTES, the e-Learning Super Hero of 2013 Award goes beyond this as it takes into account WHO IS VOTING (Impact Votes). Also, nominees can gain 50 BONUS POINTS by being pro-active discovering, voting and celebrating their favorite e-Learning Super Heroes among the 220 nominees.

The nominee with the highest score (based on a Gamified points system) becomes the e-Learning Super Hero of 2013 and wins the 1st Prize, which is £200 (British Pounds). The Top 3 wins free (commercial) Listly accounts for a year.

However, due to practical reasons (e.g. No time to check 1600+ social media profiles!) and the fact that these scores had to be calculated manually using Google Spreadsheet, only the following two gamified rules were applied:

Impact Votes (IV): Other nominees who voted for you. Each vote gives you an additional 10 points.
Bonus Points: You vote for other nominees. 5 Points for each vote you gave (Max 50 points = 10 Votes).

*Zaid Ali Alsagoff is not eligible for any awards as he is the originator, organizer, promoter and Twitter MC for #TEMS13.

RESULTS?

Download PDF version!

*The TEMS13 Details sheet only contains 90+ of the 220 nominees filtered out based on TEMS13 results and number of votes for each hero. CLICK HERE to access the full list (unfiltered with cases of double, triple and quadrupedal voting).

*The votes per nominee might vary from the Listly results, as the double, triple, quadruple votes by one person has been (mostly) deleted. You can vote up to 4 times if you login as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. However, that is unacceptable and such incidents have been deleted where discovered.

WINNER!

Oops, I won again! Yeah! Al-Hamdulilla! Thank you!

Though, since I am not eligible for any prices (except for having fun and playing) the 1st Prize goes to Juan Domingo Farnós (200 British Pounds). Congrats! We are thrilled that you have won it!

Also, we would like to take the opportunity to thank iBerry for being the sponsor of the 1st Prize. Congrats!

In addition, Listly will upgrade the Top 3s Listly accounts to premium version for one year. Since, Juan Domingo Farnós, Mohamed Amin Embi and Alfredo Prieto already have won this for the TEMS13 Awards, Jane Hart, Stephen Downes and George Siemens will receive it for this round of awards. Thanks and Congrats!

IMPACT VOTES (IV)!

WOW! what an impact Impact Votes (IV) made on the results! Here are the Top 10 based on IV only:

1. Zaid Ali Alsagoff (30 IV)

2. Jane Hart (27 IV)

3. Stephen Downes (25 IV)

4. George Siemens (23 IV)

5. Steve Wheeler (20 IV)

6. Tom Kuhlmann (19 IV)

7. Alec Couros (16 IV)

7. Grainne Conole (16 IV)

9. Jane Bozarth (15 IV)

9. Jay Cross (15 IV)

Only number one remained the same, but for the rest of the e-Learning Super Heroes it had a rising impact. Congrats! The TOP 10 IV LIST IS...WOW!

TEMS14?

iBerry has already indicated that it will be willing to sponsor another around of TEMS in 2014! If it does happen, I will for sure cook up more gamified scoring items (e.g. Google search of the e-Learning Super Heros name), and try to make it more fun and relevant than this years edition. I am still learning!

However, I will for sure not participate as a nominee in 2014, if I am the host, Twitter DJ and promoter of TEMS14! It was cool to win the treble this this year (TEMS13, IV rank and e-Learning Super Hero of the Year Awards), but thats it!

Thank you everyone for all the support! Everyone who participated, voted and celebrated the 220 e-Learning Super Heroes in TEMS13 deserves a BIG SUPER HERO HUG AND CONGRATULATIONS!

WE ROCK :)

eLearning Grid and e TQM College Journals Dubai

Link to eLearning Grid
e-TQM College Journals
The International Journal of Excellence in eLearning

ELEARNING GRID?
eLearning Grid was recently launched by the eTQM College in Dubai. Its mission is to become a central hub for developing an e-learning community, which actively contributes in spreading e-learning awareness (in the Middle East region and elsewhere in the world) and encourages the promotion and exchange of best practices and case studies in the field. It targets all those who have interest in e-learning as users, adopters or providers of e-Learning ...more

e-TQM COLLEGE JOURNALS?
"The launch of the eTQM College Journals is to support a strategy for the encouragement of growth and development of scientific thinking and publishing in the Arab World and the Middle East region. Recent research about scientific publishing and contribution from the region indicates that the Middle East region falls far behind other regions in terms of scientific research and publications and most of the scientific content comes from very few countries - with 54% from Israel, followed by Turkey, Saudi and Iran (Prof. Mohamed Zairi)" ...more

JOURNALS?

International Journal of Excellence in eLearning
International Journal of Excellence in Education
International Journal of Excellence in Public Sector Management
International Journal of Excellence in Healthcare Management
International Journal of Excellence in Tourism, Hospitality and Catering
International Journal of Excellence ine-Solutions for Management

Currently, you can enjoy free access to these online journals, and hopefully this will continue. If these two excellent initiatives (eLearning Grid and e-TQM College Journals) want to really contribute in spreading e-learning awareness, and facilitate the growth and development of scientific thinking and publishing in the Arab World and the Middle East region, I believe they have to remain free (to access).

In short, I am thrilled to learn about these two very important initiatives launched by the eTQM College in Dubai. Congratulations :)

E Learning and Sustainability Report

Link to report (416 Kb, doc. By Graham Attwell)
"The brief for the study was ?working out an analysis of how to manage a virtual learning environment in different countries and by different types of organisations (universities, SMEs, primary schools, international associations) in a sustainable way?. The report focuses on five aspects of sustainability (1. Learning platforms and learning software. 2. Institutional responses to the use of e-learning. 3. E-learning materials development. 4. Pedagogic approaches. 5. Teacher and trainers skills.)

Below is an outline of the Institutional strategies Graham Attwell recommends (checklist) based on his findings for e-learning sustainability:

Develop and adopt strategies of implementing open source software.
Establish data repositories or contribute to collective repositories.
Look at what free resources are available (WWW is the largets e-Learning repository in the World).
Encourage staff to share resources.
Establish licence agreements (it is important that the effort and contribution of materials creators is recognised and their rights protected).
Think carefully about alternatives to Virtual Learning Environments.
Staff development and training (technical and pedagogy) is central to successful and sustainable e-learning.
Develop and review strategies for implementing e-learning.
A sustainable strategy should consider how different services can be integrated or can interoperate at a technical, pedagogic and human level.
The provision and use of metadata and conformance to standards (e.g. SCORM) are key strategic issues for the sustainability of e-learning.
Take pedagogies seriously (good technology is not enough!).
Integrate ICT within the whole curriculum.
Project funding is important in allowing opportunities for innovation and experimentation.
Institutions should encourage staff to actively seek funding opportunities.
Actively seek to develop partnerships and networks for e-learning.
Share practice throughout organisation.
Make sure sufficient support is available.
Evaluate e-learning practice (e.g. anually)"

(If you dont have time to read the whole report, please read Graham Attwells "Recipes for sustainability" (conclusion). Excellent stuff! Thanks Graham! )

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