E-Learning

E-Learning (also referred to as electronic learning or eLearning) is a term which generally describes a learning activity or a system supporting the management, administration, collaboration and utilization of learning activities.

A Learning Activity in this context could be virtually any activity where knowledge is conveyed, or information is presented in novel or interactive ways that would not be possible in Books, Print or other old media.

Specifications

CommonCore

Common Core State Standards provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them.

• Core Standards: http://www.corestandards.org

SCORM

• SCORM e-learning scenario standard: http://www.scorm.com/
• Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative: https://adlnet.gov/research/scorm/

xAPI

Experience API (commonly abbreviated xAPI; formerly referred to as the TinCan API or TinCan project when it was first in development as an extension to SCORM); is a competing E-Learning standard which could potentially unseat SCORM as the de facto E-Learning standard.

• Experience API (xAPI): https://xapi.com (dedicated to helping you understand and implement xAPI)
• Between Two Standards - debate on SCORM vs. xAPI and other eLearning specs (VIDEO): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W2s10Q1xXE&feature=emb_title
• xAPI eLearning Templates: https://elearningbrothers.com/elearning-xapi-templates/

AICC

• AICC: http://www.elearninglearning.com/aicc/

IMS

• IMS Global Learning Consortium: http://www.imsglobal.org/

LOM

• IEEE LOM http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/
• Relationship between IMS and IEEE LOM Metadata: http://www.intrallect.com/support/metadata/ims2lom_metadata_mapping.htm

HL7

HL7

• HL7 working group: http://www.hl7.org/

UMLS

• UMLS: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/
• SnoMed: http://snomedct.org

Personal Development

Personal Development (commonly abbreviated as PD) describes any activities which improve awareness and identity, develop talents and potential, build human capital, facilitate employability, enhance one's quality of life and/or contribute to the realization of one's own dreams and aspirations, theoretically having a direct co-relation with happiness and/or job satisfaction. PD takes place over the course of a person's entire life. Studies have shown that organizations which allow for PD on the job report higher employee satisfaction, retention and loyalty.

• wikipedia: Personal development

Skills Acquisition

• wikipedia: Skill
• wikipedia: 21st century skills
• wikipedia: Dreyfus model of skill acquisition
• wikipedia: Skill-based theories of second-language acquisition

Tools

• New Tools for E-Learning: http://faculty.eicc.edu/golson/tools.htm
• SCORM tools: http://web.archive.org/web/20090415210726/http://www.ostyn.com/resdownloads.htm

• OER Commons: http://www.oercommons.org/
• CreativeCommons OER: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER

• Teachers Pay Teachers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/ (former Teachers available for hire, as well as activities, tests, projects, etc available for purchase as "student work packages")
• PandaCraft: https://www.pandacraft.com/ (teaching projects)
• Corkscrew Island: https://corkscrewisland.com/en-CA (kids' solo projects)
• OutSchool: https://outschool.com/online-classes (sample online/remote/home-schooling classes)

• Ariadne: http://www.ariadne-eu.org/ (European Association open to the World, for Knowledge Sharing and Reuse. The core of the ARIADNE infrastructure is a distributed network of learning repositories)
• Ariadne4j - tool to integrate Learning Objects from Ariadne into Second Life (by Roger Sanche): http://ariadne4j.org
• Adobe Captivate: http://www.adobe.com/ca/products/captivate.html
• My Udutu: http://www.udutu.com/ (online collaborative e-learning tool)
• gRSS-Hopper: https://github.com/Downes/gRSShopper (by Stephen Downes of NRC-Moncton)

Resources

• StatsCanada -- Education, training & learning statistics: https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/subjects-start/education_training_and_learning
• Conference Board of Canada - Education and Skills: https://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/Provincial/Education.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

• Ontario Educational Resource Bank: http://edu.gov.on.ca/elearning/bank.html
• Province of NB - SkillsNB: http://skillsnb.ca
• Province of NB - Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Kindergarten-12 (K-12): http://www.gnb.ca/0000/anglophone-e.asp
• New Brunswick Physical Literacy group: https://www.nbphysicalliteracy.ca/about-physical-literacy/
• NB Job Seekers - SkillsNB E-Learning Portal (powered by SkillSoft): http://nbjobs.ca/learners | SkillsNB
• Teachers salaries .vs. skills over time (INFOGRAPHIC): https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/teachers-pay.html

• IXL - Math problems for all grade levels: http://www.ixl.com/
• Where can I find online courses?: http://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-online-courses
• No Excuse List: http://noexcuselist.com/ (list of the top Universities with free Distance courses and E-Learning sites)
• WikiEducator: http://wikieducator.org/
• Edutopia: http://www.edutopia.org/
• Education Portal: http://education-portal.com/ (info on US schools by state/grade-level)
• Connexions: http://cnx.org/ (a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc.)
• Make Textbooks Affordable: http://www.studentpirgs.org/textbooks/
• Claude Ostyn (RIP) -- eLearning expert: http://web.archive.org/web/20090404110641/http://www.ostyn.com/index.html (many SCORM/LOM resources)
• MobileEd - An M-Learning initiative: http://mobileed.org/
• E-Learning 3.0: https://el30.mooc.ca/course_outline.htm (by Stephen Downes, running on his gRSS-Hopper RSS-based E-Learning CMS platform)
• Teaching Effectively During Times of Disruption, for SIS and PWR: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ccsudB2vwZ_GJYoKlFzGbtnmftGcXwCIwxzf-jkkoCU/preview#heading=h.bsm2vj54ofq4

• Resources for Just-in-Time Online Teaching: https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/resources-for-just-in-time-online-teaching/
• The Underground History of American Education, by John Taylor Gatto (AUDIOBOOK): https://www.radio4all.net/program/50300

Home Schooling

• HomeSchool Today: https://homeschool.today/ (education resources for Homeschooling parents)
• HomeSchool Canada: https://homeschoolcanada.ca/ | Education Methods
• Home Educators of New Brunswick (HENB): http://henb.ca/new-to-home-education/ | Local Chapters | Curriculum/Resources (provincial organization organizing a few events per year)
• Home Schooling Legal Defense Association (HSLDA): https://hslda.ca/ (national organization protecting "right to homeschool" in Canada)

MOOC

• MOOC List: https://www.mooc-list.com/ (list of one-off MOOCs coming up soon)
• MOOCs directory: http://www.moocs.co/ (directory of recurring MOOCs)

• Khan Academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/ (not-for-profit with mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere)
• Lynda -- E-Learning portal: http://www.lynda.com/
• Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/ | NanoDegree - AI | NanoDegree - SelfDriving Cars | NanoDegree - VR
• EdX: https://www.edx.org/ | Microsoft DataScience | Robotics - PennX | SoftwareDev - UBCx | Adv.Java - MITx | GameDesign - MITx | Probability - MITx
• UdeMy: https://www.udemy.com/ | Android | iOS
• Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/ | ML - Stanford | Android courses - Vanderbilt | R & Stats courses - Johns Hopkins U | iOS/Swift - U.Toronto | BitCoin/Tech - Princeton
• Linux Academy: https://linuxacademy.com/ | Docker
• Google -- CodeLabs: https://codelabs.developers.google.com/
• Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA): https://mva.microsoft.com/MyMVA/Dashboard.aspx?WT.mc_id=WWLeX_MVARM_RM_Dev_Dash
• WikiHow - the world's editable manual: http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page
• HowStuffWorks: http://howstuffworks.com
• CreativeLive: http://www.creativelive.com/
• Free Code Camp - "learn coding" mini challenges: http://www.freecodecamp.com/map
• CodeSchool: http://www.codeschool.com/
• CodeAcademy: http://www.codeacademy.com
• CodeGym: https://codegym.cc/quests (several Java-focused courses)
• The Coding Train: https://thecodingtrain.com/
• W3Schools: http://www.w3schools.com
• CODE -- learning tool for kids: https://code.org/
• YouthDigital -- E-Learning Coding Camps for Kids: http://www.youthdigital.com/ MOD - Minecraft in Java (sample course)

Kindergarten

• Pre-School (Jr. Kindergarten): http://ca.ixl.com/math/jr-kindergarten
• Kindergarten: https://ca.ixl.com/math/kindergarten
• READY FOR SCHOOL CHECKLIST: http://www.earlyeducation.ca/a_helpingreadyschool.shtml

Elementary

• Grade 1 (ages 6-7): Math | Science | Language | Arts
• Grade 2 (ages 7-8): Math | Science | Language | Arts
• Grade 3 (ages 8-9): Math | Science | Language | Arts
• Grade 4 (ages 9-10): Math | Science | Language | Arts

Middle School/Jr. High

• Grade 5 (ages 10-11): Math | Science | Language | Arts
• Grade 6 (ages 11-12): Math | Science | Language | Arts
• Grade 7 (ages 12-13): Math | Science | Language | Arts
• Grade 8 (ages 13-14): Math | Science | Language | Arts

High School

• Grade 9 (ages 14-15): Math | Science | Language | Arts
• Grade 10 (ages 15-16): Math | Science | Language | Arts
• Grade 11 (ages 16-17): Math | Science | Language | Arts
• Grade 12 (ages 17-18): Math | Science | Language | Arts
• Curriki - K-12 (High School) Quizes, Courses, Class archives: http://www.curriki.org/
• CK-12 Flexbooks (digital High School books): http://www.ck12.org/

University

• Wikiversity: http://wikiversity.org/
• OpenLearningInitiative (OLI): http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/forstudents/freecourses
• Athabasca - Open University: http://www2.athabascau.ca/aboutau/openuniversity.php (Distance learning, costs money)
• Open University (UK): http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/atoz/allcourses.htm (Distance learning, costs money)
• MIT - OpenCourseWare: http://ocw.mit.edu/ | EXAMPLE - Introduction to C++ | LISP - Structure & Interpretation of programs
• Stanford - Engineering Everywhere: http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx | Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: http://www.ai-class.com/ | Introduction to Machine Learning: http://www.ml-class.com/
• Peer-to-Peer University (P2PU): http://p2pu.org

College

• AutoGradr: https://app.autogradr.com/login?return=/
• CodeCheck: codecheck.it/files?repo=bj4cc&problem=ch06/c06_exp_6_105
• REPL.it classrooms: https://repl.it/teacher/classrooms/122796
• Educator Exchange: https://educators.coursehero.com/educator-exchange (sharing platform for Professors'/Instructors' slides & course materials)

Tutorials

• Open Educational Resource University (OERU) - how it might work: http://edtechfrontier.com/2011/02/22/open-educational-resource-university-oeru/
• Thinking XML - Learning Objects Metadata: www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think21.html
• What Type of Learner Are You? (INFOGRAPHIC): http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/type-of-learner-infographic/
• How to Embed a Prezi on a WordPress.com Blog: https://boisebarbara.clarify-it.com/d/62kpct
• Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) -- Cross-Domain Scripting Issue: http://www.ipims.com/scorm/center/adl_reports/ADL_DOC/ADL_CrossDomainScripting.htm
• A revised SCORM API wrapper: https://pipwerks.com/2008/01/16/a-revised-scorm-api-wrapper/
• "Conscious competence" theory of learning a new skill: https://www.mccc.edu/~lyncha/documents/stagesofcompetence.pdf
• How to Teach Summarizing Using SWBST: https://guidedreaders.com/guided-reading/how-to-teach-summarizing-using-swbst/

External Links

• wikipedia: E-Learning
• wikipedia: Massive open online course (MOOC)
• wikipedia: Open-source curriculum (OSC, also known as "OS Learning"/"OS Education")
• wikipedia: Open educational resources in Canada

• wikipedia: Homeschooling
• wikipedia: Homeschooling in Canada
• wikipedia: Unschooling
• wikipedia: Education in Canada
• wikipedia: Higher education in Canada
• wikipedia: Indigenous education in Canada

• wikipedia: Academic grading in Canada
• wikipedia: List of school districts in Canada
• wikipedia: Lists of schools in Canada
• wikipedia: List of colleges in Canada
• wikipedia: List of universities in Canada
• wikipedia: List of Canada-accredited schools abroad

• wikipedia: STEM fields (STEM fields/programs of study)
• wikipedia: SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test, aka. "SAT Reasoning Test")
• wikipedia: PSAT/NMSQT (Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test)

• wikipedia: Learning styles
• wikipedia: Autodidacticism (also known as "self-directed learning", self-teaching/self-education)
• wikipedia: Self-managed social center (also known as an "Anarchistic free school")
• wikipedia: Alternative school
• wikipedia: Gifted education (also known as "Gifted And Talented Education (GATE)")
• wikipedia: Democratic education
• wikipedia: Taking Children Seriously
• wikipedia: Montessori education
• wikipedia: Reggio Emilia approach
• wikipedia: Waldorf education
• wikipedia: John Taylor Gatto

• Effective Online Instructional & Assessment Strategies (WHITEPAPER, 2007): http://www.u.arizona.edu/~mbuckner/Online%20Classroom%20Website/assessments_page/assessment_study.pdf
• Why university may not be worth it: http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/why-college-may-not-worth-182930079.html
• Online Learning in the Age of SCORM: https://www.slideshare.net/Agcristi/online-learning-in-the-age-of-scorm-powerpoint
• The Future of eLearning is Social Learning: http://elearningweekly.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/the-future-of-elearning-is-social-learning/
• Make Your eLearning Suck Less: http://elearningweekly.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/make-your-elearning-suck-less/
• Designing eLearning Interactions : http://elearningweekly.wordpress.com/2007/05/
• Elgg, Ning, and SocialText: http://elearningweekly.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/elgg-ning-and-socialtext/
• Cisco Acquires Tandberg: http://onlignment.com/2009/10/cisco-acquires-tandberg/
• Social Learning Resources: http://elearningweekly.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/social-learning-resources/
• 2009 -- The year of educating in Society 3.0: http://www.educationfutures.com/2009/12/28/2009-the-year-of-educating-in-society-3-0/
• Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning (2009): http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/bestlist/bestwebsitestop25.cfm#organizing
• M.I.T. Game-Changer -- Free Online Education For All: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmarshallcrotty/2011/12/21/m-i-t-game-changer-free-online-education-for-all/
• Everything You Need to Raise a Little Genius: http://gizmodo.com/5878758/everything-you-need-to-raise-a-little-genius/gallery/1
• Flipping the Classroom Requires More Than Video: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/flipping-the-classroom/
• 16-university consortium expands free, online IT course offerings: http://www.zdnet.com/16-university-consortium-expands-free-online-it-course-offerings-7000001330/
• Why Mobile Will Transform Learning - The Classroom of the Future: http://spark.qualcomm.com/salon/Why-Mobile-Will-Transform-Learning-Classroom-Future
• Virtual Patient Examples: http://www.elu.sgul.ac.uk/virtualpatients/examples.htm
• CASUS Continuing Medical Education (CME): http://www.instruct.eu/?q=en/content/start | EXAMPLE #1 | EXAMPLE #2 (many cases, German)
• Canadian Medical Association (CMA) - Continuing Medical Education (CME) courses: http://www.cma.ca/cme
• Simulated Patient Care Pathways: http://www.slideshare.net/kevinrussell/simulated-patient-care-pathways
• Creating and using SCORM based Adobe Captivate tutorials in Moodle: http://www.slideshare.net/trainingfront/creating-and-using-scorm-based-adobe-captivate-tutorials-in-moodle
• Managing SCORM content in Moodle 2.6: http://danmarsden.com/blog/2013/09/24/managing-scorm-content-in-moodle-2-6/
• PayPal enrollment module for Moodle: http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Paypal_enrolment
• WordPress and PayPal - An Introduction to integration of payments: http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/creative-coding/wordpress-and-paypal-an-introduction/
• Moodle and WordPress Single Sign On in 20 minutes: http://blog.giuseppeurso.net/moodle-and-wordpress-single-sign-on-in-20-minutes-part-1/index.html
• OpenLabyrinth: http://www.openlabyrinth.ca | EXAMPLES - PINE Virtual Patient
• VPsim: http://chec-cesc.afmc.ca/bookmark_user/vpsim-online-virtual-patient-player | EXAMPLES - University of Pittsburgh
• Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) - Canadian Healthcare Education Commons - Collaboration pour l'éducation en santé au Canada (CHEC/CESC): http://chec-cesc.afmc.ca/
• CHEC/CESC Virtual Patient working group: http://chec-cesc.afmc.ca/community/chec-cesc-virtual-patient-working-group
• Flipping classrooms - Is Japan embracing new educational paradigm?: http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/flipping-classrooms-is-japan-embracing-new-educational-paradigm
• Is there any evidence of the Khan Academy significantly boosting scores on standardized math or other subject tests (say in a school where it is used)?: http://www.quora.com/Khan-Academy/Is-there-any-evidence-of-the-Khan-Academy-significantly-boosting-scores-on-standardized-math-or-other-subject-tests-say-in-a-school-where-it-is-used

• wikipedia: Medical simulation
• Virtual Interactive Case (VIC) system: http://pie.med.utoronto.ca/VIC/VIC_content/VIC_template.html
• Another sandwich related injury..: http://singlemaltmonkey.com/2011/02/01/another-sandwich-related-injury/
• E-Learning Samples: http://blog.cathy-moore.com/resources/elearning-samples/
• eLearning Innovation 2010 – Top 30: http://elearningtech.blogspot.ca/2010/04/elearning-innovation-2010-top-30.html
• How to Succeed at E-learning (BOOK): http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470670231.html
• U Toronto's E-Learning initiatives: https://media.library.utoronto.ca/play.php?Hnx3cDi3qaXI&id=14148&access=public
• We Don't Need No Education: http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/nature/Unschooling-The-Case-for-Setting-Your-Kids-Into-the-Wild.html
• Why full-day kindergarten doesn’t work: http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-munchkin-invasion/
• This College Dropout Thinks He Can Teach You How to Get a Silicon Valley Job: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-01/this-college-dropout-thinks-he-can-teach-you-how-to-get-a-silicon-valley-job
• LinkedIn moves to legitimize Web classes by Coursera, Udacity, others: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/11/14/moocs-and-jobs-linkedin-coursera.html
• The Invisible Learners Taking MOOCs: https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-beta/invisible-learners-taking-moocs
• 20+ places to learn the hottest skills of 2015 online for free: http://www.workopolis.com/content/advice/article/20-places-to-learn-the-hottest-skills-of-2015-online-for-free/
• Building a digital future - Should coding be mandatory for every schoolchild?: http://www.zdnet.com/article/building-a-digital-future-should-coding-be-mandatory-for-every-schoolchild/
• "Periodic Table" of Instructional Design: http://www.elearningbrothers.com/blogs/media/periodic-table/periodic-table.pdf
• Coding Academies Are Nonsense: https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/coding-academies-are-nonsense/
• Twilio turns developer education into a game with TwilioQuest 3: https://venturebeat.com/2019/08/05/twilio-turns-developer-education-into-a-game-with-twilioquest-3/
• NYU Makes Medical School Tuition Free: https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2018/08/16/nyu-makes-medical-school-tuition-free/#76e00bc2a9d8
• Why does Canada have so much online learning?: https://www.tonybates.ca/2017/11/11/why-does-canada-have-so-much-online-learning/
• OpenUniversity - How can you take your teaching online?: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/learning/how-can-you-take-your-teaching-online
• 'The education world has been turned upside down’ - Online learning may reshape the classroom: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-as-online-learning-rolls-out-education-may-change-forever/
• 12 Critical Issues Facing Education in 2020: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-12-critical-issues-facing-education-in-2020/2019/12
• Why American Students Haven’t Gotten Better at Reading in 20 Years: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/04/-american-students-reading/557915/

• Piano Practice Software Progress: https://jacquesmattheij.com/piano-practice-software-progress/
• What is Simpson's paradox?: https://www.quora.com/What-is-Simpsons-paradox (formula that proves studying improves performance on tests/exams, but right kind and to a certain extent to avoid "law of diminishing returns")
• Literacy in Today’s Society: https://medium.com/literate-schools/literacy-in-todays-society-df8ee954ff3a (includes summaries of the "7 types of literacies")
• UN abandons founding ideals to pick fight with home-schoolers: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/un-abandons-its-founding-ideals-to-pick-a-fight-with-homeschoolers
• New Brunswick home-schooling more than doubles during COVID-19 pandemic: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/home-school-new-brunswick-covid-19-private-school-education-1.6450453
• 18 (non-digital) things (for kids) to do this Summer: https://hslda.org/post/18-things-to-do-this-summer
• Homeschooling - An alternative is going mainstream: https://rrobserver.com/homeschooling-an-alternative-is-going-mainstream/

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