May 2006

eLearning Guidebook

May 30, 2006

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 [...]

Read the full article →

Motivating Students: Classroom Podcast

May 30, 2006

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 [...]

Read the full article →

UNESCO at 60: Focus on Distance Learning

May 29, 2006

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.’ Technorati Tags: UNESCO, Distance Learning

Read the full article →

Education Podcast Network

May 28, 2006

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 [...]

Read the full article →

The SCRIBE Initiative

May 28, 2006

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, [...]

Read the full article →

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL)

May 28, 2006

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 [...]

Read the full article →

Vocational Education

May 25, 2006

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. But [...]

Read the full article →

eCornell: e-Learning from Cornell University

May 24, 2006

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 [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries