eLearning and Blended Learning in Higher Education

If we equate teaching and learning in HE to a balancing act, walking on a tightrope between two buildings in a gale then we can start to see the difference between these two concepts. In this analogy, activity is what is keeps you there on the wire, hands flat, arms out, small wiggles from side to side to maintain balance and well, to be blunt, whatever you can do to not fall off. Actions are the movements take you forward, step by step until you get to the other side. You can’t stay balanced up there forever. Activity is not enough.

Innovator. Australian ‘ed-tech’ startup innovator, Smart Sparrow, has launched an world-first adaptive eLearning platform

This presentation examines the metaliteracy framework developed by Tom Mackey and Trudi Jacobson. Metaliteracy will be examined as a reframing of information l

New York City-based ThinkMap‘s word learning platform, Vocabulary.com, demonstrates some solid improvement on learning analytics and basic gamification applied toward simple online learning tasks. We found it surprisingly addictive, and thought the “Word in the Wild” feature is particularly innovative for learners to see words in actual usage and draw inferential clues.

ThinkMap’s customers are squarely middle school and high school students right now, but we think there will be opportunity with the personalization algorithms and mechanics they are developing to swim upstream to higher ed. In addition, there’s probably not much of a jump to foreign language learning.

Exploring digital literacies with our students means that we must we willing to reflect on our own digital practices and digital identity/identities. This prese

These ten startups are making big waves in the education space... With massive disruption potentially imminent, here are 10 education startups to watch in this exciting time.

I am a university lecturer and have been told that I have to put my course online. Do you have advice for a novice on where to start?

There is no "right" way to start teaching online. As is the case with instruction in face-to-face teaching, there are general principles that should underpin your approach, but how you bring these principles to life will depend on several factors.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/time-for-online-teaching-20130510-2jbxg.html#ixzz2T82s03zg

Online learning has been trumpeted by everyone from academics to politicians to venture capitalists as a way to improve access to education. But now a novel idea is emerging from a prominent group of digital education supporters: you can’t learn everything online.The Minerva Project is a first-of-its-kind hybrid of old and new in which there is no campus and students take all of their courses online, but live together in traditional college dorms.

The school—named after the Roman goddess of wisdom—is still in its planning stages and isn’t scheduled to open until the fall of 2015.

No size limits, no cloud: Hands-on with BitTorrent's new file syncing software.

Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational games and exercises via smartphones and tablets. Our apps are super simple and take seconds to load and run.

Streitfeld spoke with Chris Dede, a professor of learning technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, “The CourseSmart system has other potential problems; students could easily game the highlighting or note-taking functions.