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Free: Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning

Jorge Goncalves — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:57:11 +0000

Recently, I’ve discovered the excellent Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning from George Siemens and Peter Tittenberger, Learning Technologies Centre (LTC), University of Manitoba. This handbook is freely available in two formats: wiki and PDF. The number, diversity and quality of the bibliographic references are worth mentioning. A must read!

Conclusion excerpt: The use of technology for learning is influenced by developments in numerous fields: technology itself, global trends (market economy growth, changing immigration patterns, intellectual shifts to emerging economies), societal trends and trends within educational research.

Much of the change in education over the last several decades has been defined by discussion of content. Should we teach more math? Science? What about ethics? How should we teach? Lecture? Problem-based learning? It seems that much of educational reform has been concerned with determining the content of education, rather than the model and process of learning design and delivery in a technology infused world.

For individual faculty members and departments, greater use of emerging technology can serve as an important bridging process between the traditional role of education and the not yet clearly defined future. Active participation in the ecology of perpetual change provides organizations with the capacity to sense, recognize, and respond to emerging patterns.

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Free: Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning

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JISC Report: Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World

Jorge Goncalves — Sat, 16 May 2009 19:41:59 +0000

Report of an independent Committee of Inquiry into the impact on higher education of students’ widespread use of Web 2.0 technologies: Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World.

From the Conclusions: Web 2.0, the Social Web, has had a profound effect on behaviours, particularly those of young people whose medium and metier it is. They inhabit it with ease and it has led them to a strong sense of communities of interest linked in their own web spaces, and to a disposition to share and participate. It has also led them to impatience – a preference for quick answers – and to a casual approach to evaluating information and attributing it and also to copyright and legal constraints. (…)

Higher education has a key role in helping students refine, extend and articulate the diverse range of skills they have developed through their experience of Web 2.0 technologies. It not only can, but should, fulfil this role, and it should do so through a partnership with students to develop approaches to learning and teaching. This does not necessarily mean wholesale incorporation of ICT into teaching and learning. Rather it means adapting to and capitalising on evolving and intensifying behaviours that are being shaped by the experience of the newest technologies. In practice it means building on and steering the positive aspects of those behaviours such as experimentation, collaboration and teamwork, while addressing the negatives such as a casual and insufficiently critical attitude to information. The means to these ends should be the best tools for the job, whatever they may be. The role of institutions of higher education is to enable informed choice in the matter of those tools, and to support them and their effective deployment.

Download this Report (PDF, 2 MB)

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JISC Report: Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World

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Sclipo: Social Learning Revolution

Jorge Goncalves — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:38:40 +0000

Sclipo is a social learning network. Sclipo offers a revolutionary way to learn online by integrating rich educational applications – such as video and webcam – into a true social network platform. Sclipo helps you to teach and learn just about everything, from technology to languages or cooking, and connects you with people of common interests.

Sclipo Document Library and Video Library contain educational materials, such as lectures or tutorials added by Sclipo Academies.

Sclipo Blog.

Recommended: Selected Science News and Resources

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Sclipo: Social Learning Revolution

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2009 Horizon Report Web Edition

Jorge Goncalves — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:22:56 +0000

2009 Horizon Report Web Edition. From the Executive Summary: The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium (NMC)’s Horizon Project, a long-running qualitative research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations. The 2009 Horizon Report is the sixth annual report in the series. The report is produced again in 2009 as a collaboration between the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE program.

The 2009 Horizon Report is also available as PDF.

See also: 2009 NMC Summer Conference. The NMC Summer Conference is a one-of-a-kind event, attracting an audience of highly skilled professionals who are very knowledgeable about and interested in the integration of emerging technologies into teaching, learning, and creative expression.

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2009 Horizon Report Web Edition

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Academic Earth (& YouTube EDU): Thousands of Video Lectures from the World’s Top Scholars

Jorge Goncalves — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:48:36 +0000

Academic Earth: Video Lectures from the World’s Top Scholars. ‘Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education.

As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? Academic Earth is working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning.

Academic Earth is building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars.’

Update: More great video lectures at YouTube EDU.

From YouTube blog: Higher Education for All. ‘Earlier this week, we announced the launch of YouTube EDU (youtube.com/edu), a hub for videos from over 100 of our leading university and college partners. Think campus tours, news about cutting-edge research, and lectures by professors and world-renowned thought leaders. There are also 200 full (and free!) courses, in a range of subjects, from some of the world’s most prestigious universities, including IIT/IISc, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Yale. There are over 20,000 videos on YouTube EDU and growing.’

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Academic Earth (& YouTube EDU): Thousands of Video Lectures from the World’s Top Scholars

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Google Apps Education Edition

Jorge Goncalves — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:13:07 +0000

Google Apps Education Edition. ‘Google Apps Education Edition is a free suite of hosted communication and collaboration applications designed for schools and universities. Google Apps included: Gmail (with voice and video chat and mobile access), Google Calendar, Google Talk (free calling VoIP/voicemail box, file transfer, group chat), Google Sites (website creation), Google Labs, Google Docs (word processing, spreadsheets, forms, presentations, mobile access) and Google Video.

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Google Apps Education Edition

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Edmodo: Twitter for Teachers and Studentes

Jorge Goncalves — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:23:41 +0000

Edmodo – Free Private Microblogging For Education. From the FAQs:

Edmodo is a private microblogging platform that teachers and students can use to send notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other.

Teachers sign up for accounts, and then create groups. Each group has a unique code which is distributed by the teacher to the class. Students then sign up (no email address required) and join the group using the code.

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Scriblink: A Free Digital Whiteboard

Jorge Goncalves — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:20:29 +0000

Scriblink – Your Online Whiteboard. ‘Scriblink is a free digital whiteboard that users can share online in real-time. Sorta like pen and paper, minus the dead trees, plastic, and the inconvenience of being at the same place at the same time.

We are all about collaboration. Whether you’re here for pure artistic enjoyment or more practical matters such as layout planning, concept diagramming, or tutoring a friend in math, Scriblink brings you the power of free hand expression with anyone, at anytime, anywhere in the world.

On the homepage you’ll be immediately directed to a Scriblink board, which is free and requires no registration. The board allows you to invite up to five people at a time to join you, either through email or directly by copying and pasting the URL.’

Scriblink: The Official Blog

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Scriblink: A Free Digital Whiteboard

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Multiply Your e-Portfolio

Jorge Goncalves — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:06:46 +0000

Multiply. ‘Multiply gives you an easy way to share all kinds of digital media, including photos, blogs, videos, music and more, all in one convenient place: your own personal web site. With Multiply, you can share and discuss your stuff with everyone in your “social network,” and also be alerted whenever they have something new.’

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Multiply Your e-Portfolio

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Article: Pedagogical Affordances of Syndication, Aggregation and Mash-Up of Content on the Web

Jorge Goncalves — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:19:01 +0000

Pedagogical affordances of syndication, aggregation, and mash-up of content on the Web, by Barbara Dieu and Vance Stevens, TESL-EJ, Vol. 11.1 (2007). Excerpt: As Internet and online learning become more and more incorporated into our courses, syllabi, and teaching materials, it becomes increasingly important that the impact the Web is having on changing perceptions of literacy carries over to the way we practice teaching and learning. Here we will focus on which collaborative online tools can most appropriately be applied in online and blended courses to foster reading and writing. Specifically, we will discuss some of the freely available social networking platforms and tools, their common features, and how these can help language learners find, aggregate and harvest learning objects while connecting to other people on the Web at large. We will also introduce two web publishing projects, Dekita.org and Writingmatrix, and explain how they function to facilitate this process and encourage connections.

TESL-EJ: Teaching English as a Second or or Foreign Language – Electronic Journal. ‘TESL-EJ began as the brainchild of a group of scholars who saw the need for a freely-distributed electronic academic journal. It has grown to become an internationally- recognized source of ESL and EFL information for people in scores of countries. TESL-EJ is fully refereed – each article undergoes a review by at least two knowledgeable scholars.’

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Article: Pedagogical Affordances of Syndication, Aggregation and Mash-Up of Content on the Web

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Edu 2.0: The Next Generation Education

Jorge Goncalves — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:40:09 +0000

Edu 2.0: The Future of Education. ‘Edu 2.0 is a next-generation web site that makes teaching and learning more efficient and enjoyable. Edu 2.0 is free, web hosted and available from any device that supports a web browser. Anyone can teach and/or learn using the system, whether it’s at school, at home, or on the move.
Its features can be categorized into four main areas: a) Teach: teach a traditional private class or an open public class using our free, web-hosted learning management system; b) Learn: learn in an instructor-led class or at your own pace using our personalized study system; c) Resources: benefit from 10,000+ community-contributed resources including quizzes, experiments, web quests, projects, and self-paced courses and d) Community: network and collaborate with members that share your educational interests in our secure online communities.’

List of our current features.

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Edu 2.0: The Next Generation Education

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List of Web Apps for Students at Read/WriteWeb

Jorge Goncalves — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:24:19 +0000

Web 2.0 Backpack: Web Apps for Students. ‘When I was in college most of the tools in this round up didn’t exist. It was truly the dark ages of education! Well, okay, it was a just a few years ago, but just in this decade, and especially in the last few years, a handful of tools to make school life easier have appeared. What follows is the set of web tools I would put in my backpack were I headed back to school tomorrow.’

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List of Web Apps for Students at Read/WriteWeb

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Classroom 2.0: Another Social Network for Educators

Jorge Goncalves — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:50:15 +0000

Classroom 2.0. Classroom 2.0, created by Steve Hargadon, is a social networking site, devoted to those interested in the practical application of computer technology (especially Web 2.0) in the classroom and in their own professional development. Especially we hope that those who feel they are “beginners” will find this a comfortable place to start being a part of the community dialog and to learn more.’

Classroom 2.0 Wiki. The Classroom 2.0 wiki is intended for teachers and educators to help each other integrate and use technology in the classroom in practical ways.

Related: School 2.0 – School 2.0 goes beyond the practical discussion of applying the read/write and collaborative Web technologies in the classroom. It is, instead, a larger discussions of how education, learning, and our physical school spaces can (or should) change because of the changing nature of our social and economic lives brought on by these technologies – and School 2.0 Wiki

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Classroom 2.0: Another Social Network for Educators

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Another Educational Social Bookmarking Resource: Qoolsqool

Jorge Goncalves — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:51:26 +0000

Qoolsqool – Top Free Educational Resources. ‘Qoolsqool is a free and open educational resource for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. Qoolsqool’s mission is to take advantage of 21st century technologies to advance knowledge and education around the world and reach to people with a need or a desire to learn or teach.
Qoolsqool uses the collective intelligence of a community to select online educational resources. Qoolsqool is developping a system where a variety of educational resources will become available for each subject our users may be interested in. At qoolsqool, you will be able to find video courses, audio presentations, audiobooks, blogged tutorials, flash animated lessons, etc. For each subject you may be interested in, other members will have provided a number of resources and formats that fit your background, aspirations, personality and life-style.
Based on the fact that a community is usually more knowledgeable than an isolated individual, qoolsqool provides a community-based selection system that finds, ranks and annotates the best educational resources available online for free.’ [via Tropical SEO]

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Another Educational Social Bookmarking Resource: Qoolsqool

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WiZiQ – Connecting Teachers and Students

Jorge Goncalves — Mon, 21 May 2007 07:26:02 +0000

WiZiQ is an educational community on the web, connecting teachers and learners.
Teachers and learners can build their profile, form learning networks and connect with members via virtual classroom thus breaking the barriers of distance.
WiZiQ is a highly advanced learning system where teachers and learners can meet in real time using just a PC with an internet connection. Doing away the constraints of physical distance between the teacher and the learner, WiZiQ uses a virtual classroom application that is fully equipped with 2-way audio, text chat, whiteboard, PowerPoint and PDF Document sharing capabilities allowing an instantaneous exchange of notes between the teacher and the learner. They can write queries and solutions easily on the whiteboard that are displayed on the computer screens of both the participants at the same time; making the personal tutoring a highly interactive and rich learning experience.

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WiZiQ – Connecting Teachers and Students