foundations

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Hill AFB

We had the opportunity to go to Southwest Research Institute and Hill Air Force Base. These are the highlights of the trip for me:
 
  • Virtual simulations are going to become more popular as technology increases. The cost/time savings is there, the technology is almost there. It will become more popular in the future (at least in my humble opinion).
  • No one uses the Dick and Carrey model exactly.Click here to read more »
Submitted by Christian Olson on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 10:48pm
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Java and Ed Tech Foundations Course Resources

I posted links to the resources for my two courses on my other blog.  One course is 5275 Multimedia Development with Java, for non-programmers interested in a survey of the basics of java and what you can do with the java platform.  If you want to learn how to develop interactive graphical educational software, check out the resources there as an alternative to Flash.  The Java tools are all free and open source. 
 
The other course is 6310 foundations of educational technology.  Our students are working on an Click here to read more »
Submitted by Doug Holton on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 8:41am
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Foundations Course

I attached the syllabus for the MED foundations course to the INST 6310 course webpage.
 
We will be using the groups feature on this website for the class.  Here is the foundations 2008 group.
 
During the course, students will work on filling in an "Ed Tech Knowledge Base" with nuggets on organizations, people, theories, technologies, and so forth.  Also we'll work on writing skills related to writing a research paper.  Anyone not in the class is welcome to follow along and comment, but pClick here to read more »
Submitted by Doug Holton on Fri, 08/22/2008 - 6:17pm
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