Evolving e-learning: main conclusions of the Helios yearly report 2005/2006. ‘Nowadays a high number of organisations are professionally collecting, analysing and producing information on e-Learning (i.e. EUROSTAT, Eurydice, IEA, OECD, EUN Insight, Eurobarometer, as well as observatory projects within the e-Learning and IST Programmes) using different methodologies and providing different outputs, in terms of timing, [...]
From the monthly archives:
May 2006
Skills for Access : The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Accessible Multimedia for e-Learning. ‘This web site provides you with a comprehensive resource on issues relating to multimedia, e-learning and accessibility. Whether you’re new to e-learning, want to know more about specific accessibility issues, or are an expert multimedia developer, we believe you’ll find information relevant [...]
E-Learning: A Guidebook of Principles, Procedures and Practices. ‘This guidebook will help readers to systematically approach their engagement with e-learning, irrespective of the educational sector or level within which they may be working. The content of this guidebook has been carefully selected to enable readers to consider all the issues in relation to e-learning. Besides [...]
Tools for the Teks: Classroom Audio Podcasting. ‘Education in the twenty-first century should focus on the development of authentic literacy skills for students. Learning to read, write, listen, speak, critically analyze information and communicate ideas using a variety of modalities is vital for children of all ages. Some of the most frequent complaints of writing [...]
UNESCO at 60: Focus on Distance Learning. ‘UNESCO is celebrating its 60th anniversary over 60 weeks, with each week devoted to a theme. The week of 29 May-4 June is dedicated to Distance Learning.’
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Education Podcast Network. ‘The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century. Most of the producers of these programs [...]
The SCRIBE Initiative – Instructional Technology and Learning Services (ITLS), San Antonio ISD. ‘SCRIBE – Students Composing, Reflecting and Investigating with Blogs in Education! – is borne from a simple vision. Technology can powerfully enhance the human voice, enabling us to communicate and collaborate in ways previously impossible. Unleashing the power of the human voice, [...]
Commonwealth of Learning. ‘Open and Distance Learning for Development: the Commonwealth of Learning is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. COL is helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training.’
Draft Three-year Plan, 2006-09 – Learning for [...]
Technology transforms voc-ed . ‘Hands-on, high-tech experience leads to surge in enrollment. The opportunity for hands-on experience with high-tech tools in a wide range of new fields – from DNA forensics and robotics to golf course management – has helped fuel a near 60-percent surge in vocational education enrollment nationwide in the last five years. [...]
eCornell. ‘eCornell is an online learning company established and wholly owned by Cornell University, one of the world’s leading educational institutions. eCornell serves the executive and professional development needs of individuals and organizations through exceptional online education programs developed by the faculty of Cornell. Our learning and user-experience designers work closely with faculty experts at [...]
Effectively Evaluating Online Learning Programs. ‘Effectively evaluating online learning programs starts with two simple ideas: Apply tried-and-true approaches, and take advantage of the opportunity to use new ones. In practice, while there are many effective approaches to evaluating online learning programs, many organizations do not know these approaches or how to apply them.’
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EduTools: Course Management Systems (CMS) Reviews. ‘This site was built to assist higher education in using a more rational decision making process to review the many options for a course management system. This site reviews each product by researching and describing more than 40 product features. When considering several products and their features, the number [...]
