Edu-2.0

Assessment of Students Web 2.0 Authoring

July 24, 2010

Students as Web 2.0 authors: Implications for assessment design and conduct by Kathleen Gray, Celia Thompson, Judithe Sheard, Rosemary Clerehan, Margaret Hamilton, Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, Vol. 26, 105-122 (2010). Abstract: Students now have at their disposal a range of Web 2.0 authoring forms such as audio and video podcasting, blogging, social bookmarking, social networking, [...]

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University of the People (UoPeople): The First Tuition-Free Online University

May 21, 2009
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University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s first tuition-free, online academic institution dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education. The high-quality, low-cost and global pedagogical model embraces the worldwide presence of the Internet and dropping technology costs to bring collegiate level studies to even the poorest and most remote places on [...]

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Edmodo: Twitter for Teachers and Studentes

February 13, 2009

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 [...]

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Scriblink: A Free Digital Whiteboard

May 12, 2008

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 [...]

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Edu 2.0: The Next Generation Education

July 1, 2007

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 [...]

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Google for Educators: Google Certified Teachers

October 12, 2006

Google for Educators. ‘Google recognizes the central role that teachers play in breaking down the barriers between people and information, and we support educators who work each day to empower their students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge. This website is one of the ways we’re working to bolster that support and explore how [...]

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