The burgeoning movement to put more college classes online, which attracted the support of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology earlier this month, is getting another endorsement that may have an even greater impact:...
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I have worked in online education in New Zealand for the past twelve years in the tertiary and private sectors as both teacher and developer, specializing in the development and implementation of interactive online content.
THE Twitterverse may be a place where anyone can say anything about anybody but the reality is Australians tend to tweet about a few topics.
$59 Adapter Connects Apple TV Any AirPlay To Virtually any Display System. Usful for small group meetings and tutorial groups where you can share your iPad screen via the AppleTV using wifi. Via Yazid
An iPad and Apple TV can combine to provide an advantageous alternative to more expensive, traditional interactive white boards.
In case the quotes didn’t clue you in, this post doesn’t argue against massive open online courses (MOOCs) such as the ones offered by Udacity, Coursera, and edX. I think they are ve...
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So.cl (pronounced "social") is an experimental research project, developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, focused on exploring the possibilities of social search for the purpose of learning. So.cl combines social networking and search, to help people find and share interesting web pages in the way students do when they work together.So.cl helps you create rich posts, by assembling montages of visual web content.To encourage interaction and collaboration, So.cl provides rich media sharing, and real time sharing of videos via "video parties." We expect students to continue using products such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other existing social networks, as well as Bing, Google and other search tools. We hope to encourage students to reimagine how our everyday communication and learning tools can be improved, by researching, learning and sharing in their everyday lives.
Someone asked if that’s a good thing to place the tools in the hands of anyone who wanted to create a course. It’s a good question. But is it the right question?
Technology Should Be Easy to Use
It’s a good thing when technology gets easier to use. It empowers people to do more and it creates opportunity for the ones using the tools.
Instructor presence in the online environment can be elusive as a shadow – it's one dimensional, monochromatic and takes on various forms depending upon the point of view. Yet, instructor presence in online learning ...
The Ted-Ed website was introduced today and received a lot of press coverage: The Atlantic: The Digital Education Revolution, Cont’d: Meet TED-Ed’s New Online Learning Platform Fast Com... Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge
One of my favorite sources of inspiration, Harold Jarche, has a really interesting post I wanted to point you to about how to organize for diversity and complexity, one of the themes we explore in great detail in Humanize. Via thomcochrane
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The latest news on e-learning, m-learning, and social media in education...
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A collection of my blog posts, CPD materials and screencasts on using Twitter as a place to learn, network and gain CPD from your peers. It also includes three excellent screencasts by my good friend and former Teacher of the year, @DavidMiller_UK.
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For those of you who aren't aware, the Global Online Moodle Conference "iMoot2012" commences this Saturday 26 May at 0700 AEST. iMoot will be running 24 hours a day from 26 - 29 May, with 60+ sessions from some of the world's leading Moodle practitioners, not to mention some of the best international Keynote Speakers as well - Martin Dougiamas, Mary Cooch and Tomaz Lasic...just to name a few. Participants also have 12 months access to recordings of sessions post conference.
PLoS ONE: an inclusive, peer-reviewed, open-access resource from the PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE. Reports of well-performed scientific studies from all disciplines freely available to the whole world.
What Really Matters to Working Students
A perspective that we need to consider at all times. What part can a blended learning stratagy play in assisting students in this matter?
A Showcase for academics elearning projects at Curtin.
These Technologies Are Changing Education. Are You Familiar With Them? 1. Video and Podcasting Resources 2. Digital Presentation Tools 3. Collaboration & Brainstorming Tools 4. Blogs & Blogging 5. Social Networking Tools 6. Via Jack Dempsey
Google Apps for Education is a free suite of hosted email and collaboration applications exclusively for schools and universities.
Nice infographic on technology and our current students.
Hybrid Pedagogy is an academic and networked journal on teaching and technology that combines the strands of critical and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and civil uses of technology and digital media in education. ... Via Ana Cristina Pratas
The Flipped Classroom, as most know, has become quite the buzz in education. Its use in higher education has been given a lot of press recently. The purpose of this post is to: Provide backgrou...
Thanks to EdSurge for providing a link to this informative presentation by Frank Catalano on trends in educational technology. In it, he outlines five trends that cross K-12 and higher education, and it's certainly hard to argue with any of them. Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge
Helping to educate and inspire the next generation of thinkers, Skype joins forces with Penguin Group, New York Philharmonic, Science Museum London, Peace One...
Covers a variety of Web 2.0 and other Multimedia Tools educators can use to engage, excite, and educate students. Via Baiba Svenca |
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