DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Our brains organize experiences by their similarities, new research suggests. “It is as if in order to make sense of the world, the brain re-organizes individual distinct experiences into information clusters—perhaps signaling the emergence of conceptual knowledge.”
http://www.futurity.org/brains-organization-experiences-1559962/…
It’s time to go beyond Responsive Learning Management Systems. Mobile, app-based platforms, with support for ‘offline’ learning, are the next big thing.
https://elearningindustry.com/mobile-learning-management-system-6-reasons-why-need…
Microsoft just announced a redesigned web experience for Office.com, an easy-to-remember URL to help you sign in to Office 365 and get to all your apps, documents, sites, and people. It’s also introducing the new Office 365 gallery to provide …
Moodle 3.4 – the upcoming major version of Moodle project, is due to be released in November 2017. Moodle project releases a new major version after every six months. Every new version has a lot of new features and improvements …
Forecasting the future is always a difficult affair, especially in this age of rapidly changing technology. Across the interviews, however, we heard several themes emerge time and again.
Technology is constantly evolving, and the teacher’s role can easily be enhanced by the many tools available online. We’ve outlined 12 productivity tools in four categories that all tech-savvy teachers should consider.
http://www.brilliant-insane.com/2016/06/12-productivity-tools-for-tech-savvy-teachers.html…
From healthcare to hospitality, and retail to real estate, big data is having an impact in all industries – and education is no exception. Educators are using big data to identify weak points in the education system, improve teaching methods, …
Google Forms is already a very powerful, full-featured program that allows you to create forms, surveys, polls, quizzes, and more. Google allows third-party people to create Add-Ons that can be easily installed, which add new features and tools to Google …
You’d be forgiving for thinking your Amazon Kindle is just a tiny slate only fit for reading. That’s what it’s designed for, sure, but your humble e-reader has some hard-to-find, little-known tricks up its sleeve. Here are the best Kindle …
WebRoom is a free service for hosting online meetings. WebRoom doesn’t require you to download any software and you don’t need to register in order to use it. To launch a meeting on WebRoom you simply enter your name and …
Creative Commons (CC) licenses give people “a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work” (Creative Commons). Instead of requiring each person wanting to use, share or adapt the creative work to ask permission, a CC license …
This is a short post (6 page PDF) with one-paragraph descriptions of innovations at open universities around the world. Together, the set provides others with a sort of menu of options they can follow. Most usefully, each one has a …