Curriki – The Global Education & Learning Community. ‘Curriki is a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world. Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone […]
Resources about Games and Simulations at EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. ‘Games and simulations provide educators with an opportunity to engage learners in an immersive and interactive environment that requires knowledge, decision making, and information management skills. However, games and simulations used in teaching and learning can be controversial; their association with play and fun is often […]
Sloodle – 3D Learning Management System. ‘SLoodle (Second Life Object-Oriented Distributed Learning Environment) is a project to integrate the VLE platform Moodle with the 3D world of Second Life. Imagine a Moodle course that, if you wanted, could turn into a proper 3D interactive classroom with all your Moodle resources available to your students in […]
The Open University launches OpenLearn. ‘The Open University’s commitment to broadening access to education is being taken to another level with the launch of OpenLearn, its major new open content initiative. The OpenLearn website will make educational resources freely available on the internet, with state-of-the-art learning support and collaboration tools to connect learners and educators. […]
Pedagogical Podcasting or Podagogy. ‘Educators involved in eLearning are rediscovering the power of the spoken word by utilizing new technologies to communicate with students outside the traditional classroom. Podcasting is a new medium that enables you to easily incorporate on-demand audio recordings into your curriculum.’ podcasting @ the University of Wisconsin – Madison. ‘This site […]
UNESCO at 60: Focus on Distance Learning. ‘UNESCO is celebrating its 60th anniversary over 60 weeks, with each week devoted to a theme. The week of 29 May-4 June is dedicated to Distance Learning.’ Technorati Tags: UNESCO, Distance Learning
UMassOnline Awarded National Grant to Study Statewide Access to its Programs. ‘The Sloan Foundation, a national association that promotes online learning standards, has awarded UMassOnline a planning grant to help expand access to the University of Massachusetts. The planning grant will help UMassOnline to develop new models of e-learning to maximize the local and regional […]
Open Educational Resources (OER): open content for higher education. ‘This site is a place where members of the IIEP Open Educational Resources Community can work together on questions, issues, and documents. This list of links to OER initiatives, resources, and tools was compiled following the first IIEP discussion forum on Open Educational Resources (24 October […]
