This guest post is contributed by Angelita Williams, who writes on the topics of online college courses. She welcomes your comments here or at her email Id: angelita.williams7 @gmail.com. Online students are connected to their homework, campus services, professors and classmates via their distance learning university, but there are other tools that can enrich their learning experience and [...]
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Ready or Not: Next-Gen Students’ Technology Expectations Surpass Students’ Today, Annual CDW-G Survey Finds. Campus IT Professionals Highlight Need for Infrastructure Upgrades to Support “Always On” Access. From the press release: CDW Government LLC (CDW-G), a leading source of Information Technology (IT) solutions to educators and government, today announced the results of its third annual [...]
OECD Observer: A new digital divide?: According to European Union data, around 20% of jobs in Europe are either in the information and communication technology sector or require skills in that field. How prepared are today’s students for living and working in a digital world? The OECD’s New Millennium Learners project explores what drives students [...]
From Search to Research: Developing Critical Thinking Through Web Research Skills (PDF). A very useful e-book, understandably a little biased into Microsoft’s tools, particularly Bing, full of good references to critical thinking resources, accompanied with a vast selection of links to related sites. From Conclusion: ‘The Internet is a river of information that seems to [...]
EDGE 2010 Conference E-Learning: The Horizon and Beyond. The EDGE 2010 conference will bring together researchers, university and college educators, cooperating teachers and teacher mentors, school district and ministry of education professionals, teacher association leaders, and graduate students to share research and innovative practices in the field of new and emerging technologies in education. The [...]
DEOL 2009. ‘The 2009 International Conference on Distance Education and Open Learning (DEOL 2009) will be held in Singapore during October 9-11, 2009. The aim objective of DEOL 2009 is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development [...]
