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How to POWER Through Procrastination – What the Students Say

Video #2 in a weekly featured series of what York College students have to say on various topics related to online learning.

Disruptive and Transformative Education: Designing learning in the digital age

November 20, 2013Reblogged, Shared ArticlesClasses Online, curriculum, Degrees, Degrees Online, developing learning with stories, Distance Learning, e-learning, EdTech, education, Education Technology, elearning, instruction, Lisa Menke, Nebraska, Online College, Online Teaching and Learning, scenario-based learning, story centered learning, story-based learning, Transmedia Learning Design, YC Online, YCO, York College, York College Nebraska, York College OnlineLisa Menke, CPTD

I love the term “Disruptive Education”. Maybe it’s the rebel in me, or the artist, or maybe I’m just sick to death of static learning that refuses to be moved! Traditional learning should be threatened. I had a teacher once who said “if you feel your toes have been stepped on by this…maybe they should be”.

Bob's Articles and eLEARNING

The Internet is changing how and when people can access information and is transforming and disrupting how education is designed and delivered. New approaches to learning are threatening traditional educational values by de-institutionalizing and de-formalizing education as we know it. These new approaches support the prediction that education is as “susceptible to tech disruption as other information-centric industries such as the news media, magazines and journals, encyclopedias, music, motion pictures and television [1].”

The New Media Consortium’s global digital educational meta-trends highlight some of the disruptive changes already happening in education [2], such as:

Emerging global and collaborative educational business models of whatever, whenever and wherever learning.
Creating and consuming rich media through mobile and cloud-based delivery, which is refining our notion of literacies.
Acknowledging the role of informal and self-directed learning, which is redefining who can accredit educational experiences.
Increasing openness of content, data and resources, and…

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DesignGrl Daily for Monday, November 18, 2013

November 18, 2013Daily NewsClasses Online, curriculum, Degrees, Degrees Online, developing learning with stories, Distance Learning, e-learning, EdTech, education, Education Technology, elearning, instruction, Lisa Menke, Nebraska, Online College, Online Teaching and Learning, scenario-based learning, story centered learning, story-based learning, Transmedia Learning Design, YC Online, YCO, York College, York College Nebraska, York College OnlineLisa Menke, CPTD

I will get the groove of this daily posting! Oh yes, I will! Why? There are a good number of fantastic daily updates out there right now without my small contribution, right? True, but I believe in community. I believe in it with such profundity that I believe adding my voice means the word of good news, tips, tricks, new applications, fresh spins on tired ideas, emerging tech…you name it…the word of these things gets spread just a bit further. Maybe someone in my circles picks up a piece of information from me that I picked up from another trusted source and it makes an immediate difference in the quality of their work – or the quality of instruction they deliver to their body of learners. That’s why I will get the groove of daily postings. I’m not a new blogger, but I’m not a great blogger either. I’m just one DesignGrl from Nebraska who hopes to make a difference in how learning is delivered, and how it is experienced. That’s all. Thank you for following me. ~Lisa