October 2007

Article: Promoting Academic Integrity in Online Distance Learning Courses

October 28, 2007

Promoting Academic Integrity in Online Distance Learning Courses, Robert T. Kitahara and Frederick Westfall, Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT), Vol. 3, No. 3, September 2007. Abstract: In committing to provide a quality education using online Distance Learning (DL) as the delivery mechanism, a university must face new challenges to ensuring academic integrity in [...]

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iLearning Forum 2008: Learning in the 21st century

October 25, 2007

iLearning Forum 2008. The iLearning Forum 2008 will take place on Monday 4th February and Tuesday 5th February 2008 at the Palais des Congrès de Paris. This event is the largest international and European eLearning conference in France and attracts policy-makers, human resource managers, trainers, teachers and suppliers of learning technology solutions from all over [...]

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The Economist Debate Series on Education

October 18, 2007

The Economist Debate Series: First Debate, Oct. 15th-23rd, 2007: Effectiveness of Technology – Does new technology add to the quality of education? In favour of the proposition is Sir John Daniel, President and CEO of The Commonwealth of Learning. Opposing the motion is Dr Robert Kozma, Emeritus Director and Principal Scientist at SRI International. Second [...]

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OLAT (Online Learning And Training): Open Source LMS

October 15, 2007

OLAT (Online Learning And Training) is a web-based open-source Learning Management System (LMS) based on Java and completely free of charge. The development of OLAT started in 1999 at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where it is the strategic learning management system and deployed on the main OLAT server. The University of Zurich leads the [...]

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JISC’s In Their Own Words: Understanding the Learner’s Perspective on e-Learning

October 15, 2007

New JISC publication explores the learner’s perspective on e-learning. ‘A new publication from the JISC e-Learning Programme, In Their Own Words, has been launched at ALT-C in Nottingham. Synthesising outputs from Phase 1 of the Learners’ Experiences of e-Learning theme, it gives striking insights into learners’ motivations, beliefs and intentions about using technology in learning. [...]

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2 Free E-Books: Handbook of e-Learning Strategy and The Insider’s Guide to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro

October 9, 2007

The eLearning Guild’s Handbook of e-Learning Strategy. ‘In many organizations, there is a need to better identify and document a comprehensive learning strategy and to answer the question, “What should we be doing in order to support improved learning and performance?” This e-Book will help you make a broad, fundamental connection between learning, e-Learning, and [...]

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Alice: A 3D Programming Environment from Carnegie Mellon University

October 7, 2007

‘Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student’s first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming [...]

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Sketchcast: a potential educational tool ready to be discovered

October 2, 2007

Sketchcast. ‘Sketchcasting is a new way to communicate something online by recording a sketch, optionally with your voice speaking. Any sketch can then be embedded on your blog/ homepage for people to play-back, and you can also point people to your sketchcast channel here (or let them subscribe to your sketchcast RSS feed). Sketchcast is [...]

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