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Sunday, March 1, 2015

IMU LS 11 Instructional Design for the Real World Jane Bozarth

Jane Bozarth!!! WOW! Need I say anymore? What are you waiting for?

Title : Instructional Design for the Real World
Date : 27June, 2012 (Check time differences)
Time : 10:00 AM, Kuala Lumpur
Venue : Online (WizIQ)

Description

"Join in for a fast, fun tour of quick tools and tricks that will support rapid instructional design, cut to the heart of needs analysis, and improve communication with subject matter experts and managers and others requesting training solutions." - Jane Bozarth

Speaker

Dr. Jane Bozarth is the eLearning Coordinator for the state government of North Carolina, USA. While her specialty is in finding ways to cut the high costs of e-learning, Jane is also a popular classroom instructor and motivational speaker. Dr. Bozarth enjoys business writing and author of E-Learning Solutions on a Shoestring, Better than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging E-Learning with PowerPoint, From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Trainers, and Social Media for Trainers. She and her husband live with Thomas the corgi in Durham, North Carolina, USA.

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The World Universities ranking on the Web Stanford Rules!

Home: http://www.webometrics.info/index.html
Top 4000 Universities: http://www.webometrics.info/top4000.asp
Methodology used: http://www.webometrics.info/methodology.html

What?
The Webometrics Ranking (of World Universities) is being published since 2004 on a regular basis (every 6 months) using the web data as indicator of the visibility and impact of the activities of the universities, colleges and research institutions worldwide...

Aims?
The Rankings original aim was to show the commitment of these organizations to the electronic publication, the open access to scientific results and the internationalization of their activities. As other rankings are more focused on World Class Universities, our purpose is to offer an extended coverage including information about the developing countries institutions.

Findings?
Webometrics editors are very surprised to discover that Web indicators are not taken into account at all in the evaluation of the universities... The problem is really serious as the data shows a larger than expected academic digital divide affecting also to many developed countries including EU ones and Japan...

How?
The ranking is based on a combined indicator that takes into account both the volume of the Web contents and the visibility and impact of this web publications according to the number of external inlinks (sitations) they received. The ranking is updated every January and July, providing Web indicators for universities and research centres worldwide.

MasterMinds?
The WR is produced by the Cybermetrics Lab (CINDOC), a unit of the National Research Council (CSIC), the main public research body in Spain. The Lab acts as an Observatory of the Science and Technology on the Web.

Top 5 (July 2007)?

Stanford University
MIT
University of California Berkeley
Harvard University
Pennsylvania State University

Interestingly, ALL the Top 20 Universities according to the Webometrics Ranking (WR) are American! University of Cambridge managed only to get 21st place, and good old Oxford University could amazingly only achieve 40th place (The British Empire is certainly struggling on the Web if we should take WR seriously!). It should also be noted that Harvard still rules in the comparative analysis according to Productivity, Visibility and Impact.

If you look closer at my blog, and explore the right column a bit, I suppose you have one indicator why American Universities dominate the Web according to WR. The key success factor I would argue (according to my understanding) is the willingness, goals, strategies, and actions taken (and financial support provided) by these Universities (or their people) to participate in the Open Educational Resources (OER) global revolution. In other words, to improve ones ranking (WR way!) one needs to SHARE KNOWLEDGE beyond the borders of the University. Why educate only your students, when with todays technologies you can share your knowledge or resources to every corner of the world (Educate the World!). Lets face it content is only one part of the learning process!

Now, lets move one to South-East Asia (Scary!). Below is a selection (interest factor!) of the Regional and Global Ranking of South-East Asia according to the Webometrics Ranking (WR) of World Universities. Click here to download the top 100 list of universities belonging to the South-East of Asia (as of July 2007).

South-East Asia - Top 100
1. (WR: 158 ) National University of Singapore (NUS)
2. (WR: 459 ) Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
3. (WR: 516 ) Kasetsart University
14. (WR: 1125) Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
15. (WR: 1140) Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
16. (WR: 1155) Multimedia University (MMU)
18. (WR: 1301) University Putra Malaysia (UPM)
19. (WR: 1444) University Malaya (UM)
21. (WR: 1566) University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
27. (WR: 1918) International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
35. (WR: 2175) Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)
40. (WR: 2328) Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM)
42. (WR: 2335) Singapore Management University (SMU)
53. (WR: 2802) Universiti Tenaga Nasional
66. (WR: 3360) Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
69. (WR: 3447) Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS)
70. (WR: 3449) Monash University Malaysia
84 (WR: 4045) Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM)
85. (WR: 4099) Universiti Tun Abdul Razak (UNITAR)
91. (WR: 4283) Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP)
93. (WR: 4359) Singapore Institute of Management (SIM)
98. (WR: 4484) Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI)

Hmm, if WR really means something to South-East Asia, we should perhaps explore the best practices provided on the site (Perhaps a few minor tweaks to our online content management can do wonders!). If not, we could always dwell upon other University type of rankings and feel better. On the positive side, if WR is important to us, we only have one way to go: UP! :)

World Digital Library Free of Charge!

Link to World Digital Library
Video - Experience the Vision (WDL)

WHAT?
The World Digital Library (WDL) will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials.

VISION?
Experience the technologies that will put visitors in touch with cultural heritage collections from around the world (Click the video link and you will be inspired!)

OBJECTIVES?

Promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness;
Provide resources to educators;
Expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet; and
Contribute to scholarly research.

MASTERMIND?
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington proposed the establishment of a World Digital Library (WDL) in a speech to the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO in June 2005. The Library of Congress is currently engaged in a planning process to determine how this vision can be realized. Participants in the planning process include national libraries and other libraries and cultural institutions from around the world that have expressed interest in joining the project, as well as UNESCO and IFLA. The planning process is being underwritten by a gift from Google, Inc.

PARTNERS?

UNESCO
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
The Library of Congress
National Library of Brazil
National Library and Archives of Egypt
National Library of Russia
Russian State Library

Since they are inviting other libraries, archives, museums, etc. around the world to participate, I suppose we will be seeing many more juicy partners joining in the near future.

Although, we only have the visionary video to enjoy for now, I certainly hope and believe this will be a successful project. Having Google onboard the team certainly increases the possibility of success, though it would also be great to see MSN and Yahoo getting involved. Yes, it would be great to see these three Search Giants (or Three Musketeers) working together on such a massive and noble project :)

Hello World Program in Eight Different Popular Programming Languages

This fact is true that Hello World program is the first program that a programmer writes when he/she start learning a new programming language. Today I thought that I should share the hello world program in different languages. A video is also added for easy understanding of the programs. Let’s take a look on these programs.

Hello World Program in Java

class HelloWorld

{

public static void main(String args[])

{

System.out.println("Hello World");

}

Hello World Program in C

#include<stdio.h>

main()

{

printf("Hello World");

}

Hello World Program in C++

#include <iostream>

int main()

{

std::cout << "Hello, world";

}

Hello World Program in Javascript

<script>

window.onload = function()

{

document.getElementById(result).innerHTML = "Hello World";

}

</script>

<div id="result></div>

Hello World Program in HTML

<p>Hello World</p>

Hello World Program in Python

print "Hello World"

Hello World Program in Perl

print "Hello World"

Hello World Program in Ruby

puts "Hello World"

Source: http://blog.learntoprogram.tv/hello-world-eight-languages/

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