Imagine a World of Holographic Learning!

Via This Article

Musion TelePresence Launch – Berlin from Musion Systems on Vimeo.

“It isn’t a hologram, it’s a virtual image…But it looks like people’s expectations of a hologram.”
– Ian O’Connell

Whatever it is, it reminds me that the Spock or R2-D2 holographic who-ha, might become a daily reality much sooner than most of us realize. Imagine having a keynote speaker presenting holographically to 100 locations at the same time.

No, imagine a MIT or Harvard Professor facilitating a learning session to a group of people living in a tiny village in ‘Kuku’ land (and to another 1000+ locations at the same time!), and actually doing it in his bedroom from his holographic launch-pad. A nice enhancement to today’s web or video conferencing.

Just imagine a new holographic learning world, where we can teleport to anywhere within a blink-of-the-eye.

It costs a bomb today, but within a few years, I am pretty sure we will be having it on our mobile device … Let’s just imagine (no harm in that!) 🙂

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100 Best Professors Who Blog

Via Jane Hart

Are you looking for great Professors who blog?

100 Best Professors Who Blog

Whether they’re about science or political science, you’ll find something interesting on each of the blogs found in this juicy collection. Excuse me, I need to find another Professor to spam, I mean bug, I mean… 🙂

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32 Traits of Creative People

Via Amran Noordin

32 Traits of Creative People

– Robert Alan Black

I have them ALL! I wish 🙂

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UNESCO OER Toolkit

UNESCO OER Toolkit

Most of the Toolkit is designed for academics who are interested in finding and using OER (Open Educational Resources) in the courses they teach, or who wish to publish OER that they have developed. Some sections are aimed at institutional decision-makers and academics that interested in setting up a more formal OER project. These projects may start with just a few interested academics but, as they grow, institutional policies, funding and legal constraints become more relevant. Individuals who are not aiming to set up a institutional project may nonetheless be interested to read the whole document. Likewise, institutional planners, IT staff or librarians who are interested in setting up an OER project would benefit from understanding the academic’s perspective.

The OER toolkit explores the following topics:

• Background to Open Educational Resources
• The Emergence of Open Education
• Copyright and Open Content Licensing
• Finding and Using Open Educational Resources
• Creating and Sharing OER
• Establishing Institutional OER Projects
• Setting Up Your OER Project

It would be great to see a few Malaysian Universities also getting involved with creating and sharing OER. Is it happening? Or am I just dreaming 🙂

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A Free Facilitator’s Guide to Live Online Learning

Via Clive Shepherd

Live Online Learning – A Facilitator’s Guide

This free e-book issued by Onlignment, explores (55 pages):

1. Whys and wherefores
2. Planning your session
3. Communicating with voice and live video
4. Communicating using images and text
5. Sharing resources
6. Building in interactivity
7. Building up to the session
8. Facilitating the session
9. Following up

To download the e-book you need to sign-up and subscribe to Onlignment’s occasional emails (or newsletter), but you can unsubscribe any time you like.

If you are lost about live online learning (or facilitating live online learning sessions), or using what, when and how, this e-book will serve you well. Though, I would have liked to see more relevant visual illustrations, examples and diagrams to spice up this e-book.

I suppose by using less visuals, the e-book has a longer life-cycle. Also, the explanations and tips will trigger us to visualize and use our imagination. But, if we are totally new to online facilitation, I am not sure our imaginative visualization will serve us well 🙂

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