Director of e-Learning Derek Wenmoth outlines some of the many ways we can think about the benefits or the impact of virtual learning technologies and their use in schools, including the increases in global reach for learners and the way virtual learning can improve options for teacher professional learning and development.
CORE Education's Derek Wenmoth explores the current and future world of 3D in the penultimate Ten Trend for 2012. From current 3D thinkers, like air traffic controllers and surgeons to the relatively new technology of 3D printing, Derek foresees a growing demand for thinking and conceptualising in 3D for which teachers and students will need to prepare.
In the first of the Ten Trend series for 2012, CORE Education's Derek Wenmoth describes the move away from environments that include barriers to participation and access to systems, strategies and processes that are more open. Derek poses questions about accountability policies in schools, and how to ensure teachers are exposed to open teaching resources, and open professional learning for themselves.
Derek Wenmoth provides a background to the 2012 series of CORE Education's Ten Trends. Each month throughout 2012 we will publish video, links, articles and discussions relating to each of the trends. The first trend will the smart web, presented by social media manager, DK.
CORE Education's Derek Wenmoth talks about open-ness, a reaction against the many ‘closed’ characteristics of our current education system. What were previously regarded as barriers to growth, access, or innovation in our system, are now being challenged or circumvented through the use of systems that are more open and participatory.
In this, the eighth Trend video, Derek Wenmoth of CORE Education discusses three emerging ways in which we access and interact with information: eBooks, data visualisation and gesture based computing. Derek explains that what has historically been confined to 2D print and oral/aural communications, is now accessible in a range of new and exciting ways, and where engagement tended to be passive, it is now an active experience.
In Trend 7 of CORE Education's Ten Trends, Derek Wenmoth, Director of e-Learning explores the ways that virtual learning can enhance students' learning as well as teachers' professional development.
Cloud computing refers to storage and processing that occurs in a networked environment rather than relying on the limits of a personal computer. In the sixth episode of CORE Education's 2011 Ten Trends Derek Wenmoth discusses three aspects of this growing and significant trend: infrastructure, data access, and services.
In this episode of the Ten Trends, Derek Wenmoth explains that as our world expands to include the 'virtual world' so too must our concept of citizenship. Three aspects of citizenship are highlighted by Derek: Global Citizenship, Digital Citizenship and Cyber Citizenship.
In the fourth of the series of ten trends, CORE Education's Derek Wenmoth highlights the 'explosion' of data in the world and discusses how we might store, manage and derive meaning from it. Derek talks about storage, management, manipulation, visualisation and open data and the implications for educators. Find out more about the ten trends here >>>
