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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 :)

Facebook Twitter for Learning at IMEC8!

Facilitating a half-day hands-on Facebook & Twitter for Learning workshop on the 13th March (2013) at the 8th International Medical Education Conference (IMEC-2013). Venue: International Medical University (IMU), Malaysia.

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FACEBOOK & TWITTER WORKSHOP

Today more than one billion people use Facebook, and more than 500 million use Twitter to connect, share and interact with one another. In this workshop, we will explore how we can use Facebook and Twitter to facilitate learning and teaching.

During the hands-on activities, we will learn how to create Facebook Groups to engage students and conduct assignments, and create unique Twitter #hashtags to empower dedicated streams for sharing and learning. Finally, we will explore several Twitter apps to engage students in the classroom and beyond.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After this workshop, you will be able to:

Use Facebook and Twitter to facilitate learning and teaching.
Create Facebook Groups/Pages to engage students and conduct assignments.
Create unique Twitter #hashtags for programmes, courses and events.
Use Twitter apps to engage students in the classroom (and beyond).

PRESENTATION SLIDES

Facebook for Learning at #IMEC8 from Zaid Alsagoff

CLICK HERE to download (PowerPoint version).

Twitter for Learning at #IMEC8 from Zaid Alsagoff

CLICK HERE to download (PowerPoint version).

Facebook and Twitter are still cool learning tools, so dont miss this crash course :)

IMU Learning Series 01 Facebook for Learning and Teaching

Date: Wednesday, 28th December

Venue: Online (WiZiQ)

Time: 2:30 - 3:30 P.M. (Malaysian time)

(GMT + 8 Hours: 6:30 - 7:30 A.M)

AGENDA

Can Facebook be used for teaching and learning? How can it be used? In this online session we explored how it can be used for teaching and learning with a specific emphasis on using Facebook Groups and Pages.

FACILITATORS

Zaid Ali Alsagoff
Fareeza Marican

RECORDING
You are recommended to skip the first 10 minutes, so that you can get right into the action. If you have problems viewing, try updating your Flash Player.

IMU Learning Series 01 - Facebook for Learning and Teaching?

CLICK HERE

(To view the recorded online session)

PRESENTATION SLIDES

IMU Learning Series 01 - Facebook for Learning and Teaching?

View more presentations from Zaid Alsagoff.

Stay tuned for the upcoming online session, which will be revealed soon :)

Academic Earth Gives you Learning Goose Bumps!

Link to Academic Earth
FAQs

WHAT?

Academic Earth is an educational video website with the goal of enhancing the usability and expanding the awareness of OER, focusing first on video lectures.

MISSION?
Giving everyone on earth access to a world class education.

OBJECTIVES?

Centralizing the best video resources from multiple sources into one easy-to-search hub.
Applying the latest best practices in usability and design.
Integrating crowd-sourcing and wiki tools so users can enhance the experience for future users (these features to come).

WOW!

Currently, there are over fifteen hundred videos from MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale there. As they are adding more every day, you can imagine the rest! Also, many lectures are grouped into courses, providing us added convenience to access. In addition, when the "Download to iPod" option appears you can download a QuickTime version of the lecture (click on the "Download to iPod" link and select "Save Target As..." or the equivalent for your browser).

Yes, they even allow you to grade (A, B, C, D) the lectures, which is quite cool. Lecturers are graded instead of learners or students. Wouldnt that be a cool school? We learn, no grades except for grading our lecturers. In other words, students can relax and learn, while lecturers get stressed out with their grades (for their lecturing ability). Though, I suppose they could add a comment feature to each lecture, enabling us to give our 23 cents when wanted or needed.

The interface is soothing and it is easy to find stuff (Playlist, Subjects, Universities and Instructors). Besides the normal embed and share feature, we are also provided with a Citation Info feature, which makes it extremely easy for us to reference our lecture discoveries (replicate!). Interestingly, a Feedback option follows us everywhere we go, indirectly reminding us of their eagerness to get feedback and improve further.

If I was allowed to grade this site, I would give it a delicious A. Surely, one of the best lecture finding sites (or lecture aggregators) I have ever visited :)

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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