“Our fear is that social cohesion and equity inherent in the promise of public schooling will be undermined by (the Knowledge Revolution).” This fear comprises the lynchpin of the authors’ thesis: that new media technologies are changing how, where, and …
Should You Add Background Audio to Your E-Learning Courses?
Tom Kuhlmann: “I get a lot of questions about whether or not to add background music to e-learning courses. That’s like answering whether or not you should put a blue square in your course. If the blue square makes it …
Seven Habits of Highly Connected People
The first thing any connected person should be is receptive. Whether on a discussion forum, mailing list, or in a blogging community or gaming site, it is important to spend some time listening and getting the lay of the land.…
Buying an E-Book reader? Here’s What You Need to Know
Want to purchase an e-reader? There’s a lot of hype to cut through.
Canadian Ebook Store Offers ‘Free’ Public Domain Ebooks – Claims Copyright Says You Can Only Make 1 Copy
Canadian Ebook Store Offers ‘Free’ Public Domain Ebooks — Claims Copyright Says You Can Only Make 1 Copy
Selling Lessons Online Raises Cash and Questions
Selling Lessons Online Raises Cash and Questions
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/education/15plans.html?_r=1…
Quality post-secondary education in Canada: How can we know?
The Canadian Council for Learning has released another report, this time on quality in post secondary institutions in Canada.
New Teen-Produced Reality Series Shows How Teens Use Digital Media to Shape Their Lives
This post post announces “the launch of StudentSpeak, a new teen-produced reality series on how teens use digital media in their day-to-day lives. Every other week, students will take viewers inside their world, and show how technology is transforming how …
Open Educational Resources: The implications for educational development (SEDA)
Dave Cormier questions some underlying presumptions of resource repositories in this examination of open educational resources (OERs). “There is a presumption in traditional learning design that a given trainer is somehow going to be able to divine the needs of …
Teaching Teachers to Use Blended Learning
In 2008, Charles Sturt University introduced CSU Interact, a learning management system based on the Sakai framework. Pedagogically, the new tool supports a social constructivist approach to e-learning. Students are required to wield a range of digital tools, such as …
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009: The Final List
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009: The Final List
How to become part of a blogging ecosystem?
So often, people create a blog, write a few posts,, and then wonder why they haven’t attracted any readers (or they create a Facebook or twitter account, write a few posts, and wonder why they don’t have any followers). To …
Web Based Twitter Clients – Which Is Right For You?
Web Based Twitter Clients – Which Is Right For You?
http://thenextweb.com/appetite/2009/11/24/web-based-twitter-clients/…
State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada
Comprehensive report on the state of online learning at the K-12 level in Canada.
http://www.inacol.org/research/docs/iNACOL_CanadaStudy_200911.pdf…
E-learning 2.0
E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea—the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven—to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It’s …