July 2006

E-Learning Lab

July 10, 2006

E-Learning Lab – Centre for User Driven Innovation, Learning and Design is established by the project Virtual Learning Environments and Learning Methods, which is a project connected to The Digital North Denmark. The object of E-Learning Lab is to support development and use of e-learning regionally and internationally. The aim is to create a dynamic [...]

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JHSPH OpenCourseWare (OCW)

July 9, 2006

JHSPH OpenCourseWare. ‘The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) project provides access to content of the School’s most popular courses. As challenges to the world’s health escalate daily, the School feels a moral imperative to provide equal and open access to information and knowledge about the obstacles to the public’s health and [...]

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Portable Learning – Experiences with Mobile Devices

July 9, 2006

JIME Special Issue: Portable Learning – Experiences with Mobile Devices. ‘From the Editorial: This special issue of JIME brings together several papers that were produced following a symposium on Portable Learning – Learner and Teacher Experiences with Mobile Devices held in June 2005 at the UK Open University. There is considerable interest in how mobile [...]

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Computer-Based Assessment in E-Learning

July 9, 2006

Computer-Based Assessment in E-Learning: A Framework for Constructing “Intermediate Constraint” Questions and Tasks for Technology Platforms. ‘Technology today offers many new opportunities for innovation in educational assessment through rich new assessment tasks and potentially powerful scoring, reporting and real-time feedback mechanisms. One potential limitation for realizing the benefits of computer-based assessment in both instructional assessment [...]

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Edutopia: Project-Based Learning

July 9, 2006

Edutopia: Project-Based Learning. ‘In project-based learning, students work in teams to explore real-world problems and create presentations to share what they have learned. Compared with learning solely from textbooks, this approach has many benefits for students, including: a) Deeper knowledge of subject matter; b) Increased self-direction and motivation; c) Improved research and problem-solving skills.’ Edutopia [...]

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MOBIlearn

July 9, 2006

MOBIlearn Project Website. ‘MOBIlearn is a worldwide European-led research and development project exploring context-sensitive approaches to informal, problem-based and workplace learning by using key advances in mobile technologies. The MOBIlearn project consortium involves 24 partners from Europe, Israel, Switzerland, USA and Australia. Their competencies are integrated and extended by a Special Interest Group which includes [...]

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IMS Learning Design Best Practice and Implementation Guide

July 9, 2006

IMS Learning Design Best Practice and Implementation Guide. ‘The development of a framework that supports pedagogical diversity and innovation, while promoting the exchange and interoperability of e-learning materials, is one of the key challenges in the e-learning industry today. The absence of agreed and compatible ways to describe teaching strategies (pedagogical approaches) and educational goals [...]

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Oracle Education Foundation

July 8, 2006

Oracle Education Foundation. ‘The Oracle Education Foundation is an independent, philanthropic organization funded by Oracle Corporation. As part of its mission, the Foundation provides ThinkQuest and Think.com as free services to the global primary and secondary school community. These programs are designed to connect students around the world and engage them in collaborative, project-based learning [...]

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