Podcast craze hits classrooms. ‘Some say digital lectures can let students catch up. Hoping to appeal to tech-savvy students with a shrinking attention span, more Boston-area colleges are pushing professors to go digital and record their lectures as downloadable files that student can listen to wherever, whenever. Supporters of the idea say that podcasts help [...]
July 2006
Podcasts help make history come alive. ‘As the use of iPods and other handheld listening devices becomes more prevalent among students, some forward-thinking historical societies and other educational groups are embracing the technology as a means to reach students and further preserve history. At Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, for instance, historians are using podcasts to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
