March 2007

Engines for Education: Learning by Doing

March 23, 2007

Engines for Education. ‘Engines for Education is a nonprofit organization founded by Roger Schank, whose goal is to radically change our notions of school. John Adams said that education should teach people how to live or how to make a living. Our schools do neither. They teach how to pass tests about meaningless knowledge that [...]

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EDEN: European Distance and E-Learning Network

March 17, 2007

European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN). ‘A smart network for the professional community, a professional community for smart learning. EDEN, the European Distance and E-Learning Network, established in 1991, is an international educational association open to institutions and individuals dealing with e-learning, open and distance education. Proving versatile expertise, the Association embraces all levels of [...]

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European Association for Distance Learning (EADL)

March 17, 2007

European Association for Distance Learning (EADL). ‘The EADL is the European association of schools, institutions and individuals working in correspondence and distance education. With members from over 20 European countries, the Association is a representative forum for the exchange of information and ideas on current practice and developments in the expanding field of distance learning. [...]

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e-Portfolios: 21st Century Assessment

March 16, 2007

Digital-Age Assessment. ‘Effective 21st century assessment reaches beyond traditional testing to look at the broader accomplishments of learners. Assembling an e-portfolio, or electronic portfolio, is an excellent method for assessing students’ progress toward school, state, or national academic standards, as well as 21st century skills. An electronic portfolio is a purposefully limited collection of student [...]

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SlideShare – A Place to Share Slideshows and Presentations

March 16, 2007

SlideShare – A Place to Share & Discover Slideshows. ‘SlideShare is a free service for sharing presentations and slideshows. You can upload your PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Keynote or PDF presentations, tag them, embed them into your blog or website, browse others’ presentations, and comment on individual slides. What’s more, the transcripts of your presentation will be [...]

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Review: EarnMyDegree.com – Online College Degrees and University Courses

March 11, 2007

I was just finishing a review for another site when I received an invitation from ReviewMe to review EarnMyDegree. Before accepting, I normally do a quick visit to the site just to see what I can expect. When I did this with EarnMyDregree site I was overwhelmed by the enormous amount of information available at [...]

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More on Web 2.0 in Education

March 11, 2007

Report: What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education. ‘ Within 15 years the Web has grown from a group work tool for scientists at CERN into a global information space with more than a billion users. Currently, it is both returning to its roots as a read/write tool and also entering a [...]

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Wikiversity – The Knowledge is Free

March 11, 2007

Wikiversity. ‘Wikiversity is a community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. Wikiversity is a multidimensional social organization dedicated to learning, teaching, research and service. Its primary goals are to: a) Create and host free content, multimedia learning materials, resources, and curricula for all age groups in all languages and b) [...]

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