From IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
Integrating technologies into teaching and learning poses a significant challenge for many teachers who lack socio-techno-pedagogical know-how and time to design interventions. A possible solution is to design sound technology-enhanced learning (TEL) environments with relevant content and pedagogical tools to reduce teachers' design efforts. Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) is a promising framework for understanding how teachers could integrate technologies into classrooms.
Changing Distributions: How Online College Classes Alter Student and Professor Performance
From Stanford CEPA
Online college courses are a rapidly expanding feature of higher education, yet little research identifies their effects. Using an instrumental variables approach and data from DeVry University, this study finds that, on average, online course-taking reduces student learning by one-third to one-quarter of a standard deviation compared to conventional in-person classes.Taking a course online also reduces student learning in future courses and persistence in college.
Altschool是最近被硅谷热捧的一所小学。这所面向学前班到8年级孩子的学校吸引了Facebook创始人扎克伯格，乔布斯妻子，Paypal创始人等硅谷传奇投资人，最近刚刚融资1亿美元。这是一所很有个性的小学，它试图去解决一个教育的困境：以“儿童为中心”的个性化教学是否绝对无法像公立学校那样规模化，标准化地运作?目前来看，试验是成功的
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have joined lead investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield& Byers in a $15 million round of funding for Newsela. The news education startup adapts news articles for students and delivers them online, along with quizzes that aim to tell teachers and parents what students are still grappling with or learning well.
Newsela不是简单的将网络新闻进行罗列。而是在背后有一套自己的算法，能够判断每个学生的阅读水平。它会为每个用户提供个人化的内容，用户可以根据自己的实际情况调整难度, 而且还能提供各个年级水平的测验。
这就是一个以“用户”为核心、以“选择”为导向的“云时代”，一个以“专业创造”取代“知识劳动”的“个时代”，课堂的边界正在逐渐模糊，跨界和个性化趋势正使得教师角色被重新定义，于是，“独立教师”正在悄悄萌生。
Coursera刚刚发布了它的第一份纵向研究结果，该研究对51954名完成了Coursera的3个月或更久的课程的学习者进行了调查，想确定他们在完成了这些课程之后，得到了哪些职业上或教育上的回报。总体而言，72%的受访者获得了职业上的好处，61%的人得到了教育上的收益。
Language Learning Beyond the Classroom
Edited by David Nunan and Jack C.Richards
This volume presents case studies of language learning beyond the classroom. The studies draw on a wide range of contexts. Each case provides principled links between theory, research and practice.
While out-of-class learning will not replace the classroom, ultimately all successful learners take control of their own learning. This book shows how teachers can help learners bridge the gap between formal instruction and autonomous language learning.
This volume focuses on computer- and digitally-assisted language learning in all of its forms: technology-enhanced language learning, network-based language learning, mobile-assisted language learning and so on, in close relation to the topic of sustainability. How can these technologies and techniques be implemented in a sustainable and repeatable way? The volume samples research and practice in CALL from around the world, organised into sections. It covers the state of the art at the moment and directions it is likely to take in the future.
2016 International Symposium on CALL: July 22-23, 2016
Qingdao, China
Call for papers
Theme:New Technology and Foreign Language Instruction: Opportunities and Challenge
The 6th International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, April 25-29, 2016
