E-Learning and Educational Technology News and Resources
ICT Results: Attention please! Next-generation e-learning is here. ‘Take an e-learning platform, mix in a large dose of social networking, sprinkle liberally with intelligent software agents to stimulate users and, according to a team of European researchers, you have a recipe to keep students’ attention even during the most testing training courses.
Recent trials of two [...]
The Open Research and Open Knowledge Society (ORS Acronym) is a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) based on Athens Greece and is operating all over the world. It is not depending on any government, political party, political or religious organization or entities representing financial interests.
Given the significance of the knowledge society as a new context of [...]
Collecting, Organizing, and Managing Resources for Teaching Educational Games the Wiki Way, Shelley Henson Johnson, Brett Shelton, and David Wiley, Innovate, Vol. 4, December 2007/January 2008. Synopsis: Recognizing the pedagogical value of gaming, academics along with game designers and educational content developers have begun producing resources to improve educational game design and make instructional games [...]
Leaders of theYear 2007: For the 20th year, T&L is proud to honor outstanding educators. In the following pages we bring you profiles of innovation, of courage, of determination, and most important, of dedication to the future of students. You will read about: a superintendent who turned around a “failing community” through the use of [...]
Exploratree & Enquiring Minds. ‘Exploratree is a free web resource where you can download, use and make your own interactive thinking guides. Thinking guides can support independent and group research projects with frameworks for thinking, planning and enquiry. We’ve provided a set of ready-made guides which you can print out or use online. All of [...]
This post is a little bit far away from online learning but it is Sunday and a friend has called my attention to this concept and I like it! A Spanish immersion school located at Costa Rica (Playa Tamarindo) offers not only Spanish language courses but also surf and scuba diving programmes. The overall idea [...]
University of Manitoba’s Learning Technologies Centre’s Blended Learning Wiki. ‘There is no agreement on the definition of blended learning. The term is used in a wide variety of ways, and applied to a wide range of teaching and learning approaches.
Many blended learning definitions refer to conventional face-to-face teaching and learning activities (synchronous) that are mixed [...]
PLOTEUS - Portal on Learning Opportunities Throughout Europe. ‘PLOTEUS was set upon order to respond to the conclusions of the Lisbon and Stockholm European Councils (March 2000 and March 2001), which invited the European Commission and Member States to create a Europe-wide service providing information on jobs and learning opportunities. The purpose of PLOTEUS, just [...]
Taking One-to-One Computing to the Next Level - Laptop Learning Lightens Up Simple Storage Solutions. ‘One-to-one computing holds out the exciting promise of engaging students and empowering educators. Convertible notebook PCs, in particular, can be powerful tools to stimulate inspiration and interaction. This eBook contains suggestions on incorporating some of these new technologies into a [...]
Top-Ten Teaching and Learning Issues, 2007 by John P. Campbell, Diana G. Oblinger and Colleagues, Educause Quarterly, vol. 30 (3), 2007. ‘Creating a culture of evidence tops the list of important issues as the academic technology profession moves to an “Instruction 2.0″ world.
The EDUCAUSE Advisory Committee for Teaching and Learning (ACTL) has identified the key [...]
Some Historical Thoughts on the ee-Learning Renaissance by Jack M. Nilles, Innovate 3 (6), 2007. Synopsis: Jack Nilles surveys the evolution of ee-learning at the University of Southern California, together with the first formal telecommuting demonstration program, from its beginnings in the early 1970s to the relevant trends in 2006. Although the basic technologies of [...]
Jane Hart, author of the well known Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day and Directory of Learning Tools, asked a number of people what their Top Ten Tools were “for their own personal working and learning or for creating and delivering learning solutions”. The aim is to build the Top 100 Tools: the most popular [...]
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