This is an open access book that came out last year. The first part focuses on the design practice itself, while the second part underpins that practice in theory. It makes an excellent introductory text, covering a lot of ground, …
Best Online Tools for Creating Interactive Maps for Students and Teachers
There are several tools that students and teachers can use to create interactive maps. Here you will find an updated version of the best map creation tools out there.
https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/07/9-excellent-free-map-creation-tools-for.html…
Towards Sustainable Open Educational Practices: The NWU OER Fellows as a Case Study
This paper (10 page PDF) reports on an OER fellowship program at North-West University in South Africa. The project featured a number of lecture-oriented and student oriented resource development projects. There were also opportunities for students to participate in the …
Get ready for the next generation of AI
Just when the AI community was wrapping its head around the astounding progress of text-to-image systems, we’re already moving on to the next frontier: text-to-video.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/03/1060561/get-ready-for-the-next-generation-of-ai/…
Hidden trackers invade your browser. Here’s how to delete them
Advertisers are notorious for watching what you do and where you go online. That’s valuable and very profitable information. Here’s one way to stop some of the spying.
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Videogames in the Classroom: Meaningful Learning Backed by Research
The use of videogames as an educational tool in the higher education classroom is becoming increasingly common. Research has demonstrated that the use of educational videogames (serious games) can lead to meaningful learning outcomes. However, very little work has been …
I spent a year living and working without a phone, and it radically improved my life. Here are 6 things I learned.
I wanted to know what would happen if I suddenly gave up my smartphone – whether I’d feel better or worse, more productive or less capable of doing my job. Like so many others, I’d treated my phone as a …
This PC to phone transfer method is so easy — why didn’t anyone tell me about it?
Forget Google Drive, USB-C cables, flash drives and labyrinthine third-party apps! There’s a much easier way to transfer photos, documents, and videos from your PC to phone — it’s a wireless, lightning-fast method, too.
Ex-Google ad boss builds tracker-free search engine
An advert- and tracker-free search engine launches in the UK, France and Germany on Thursday.
School 2.0: How has the pandemic changed learning?
Over the past three pandemic-interrupted school years, as educators scrambled to respond to the greatest disruption to schooling in over a century, a common refrain emerged: Don’t return to the way things were.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2022/0922/School-2.0-How-has-the-pandemic-changed-learning…
8 Free Alternatives to Photoshop Everyone Should Try At Least Once
Don’t want to pay for Photoshop, or don’t like it? Try these alternatives that come at no cost.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-free-alternatives-photoshop/
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Back to School: Five Books on Education
The rapid pivot to online education following the outbreak of COVID-19 has meant universities and other schools around the world were suddenly leaning heavily on educational technology to facilitate remote lectures and exams. Resources for teaching online are still in …
YouTube’s ‘dislike’ and ‘not interested’ buttons barely work, study finds
A Mozilla report found feedback buttons didn’t stop the majority of similar recommendations.
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The Future of Learning Technology: 10 Key Tools and Methods
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the education system in Canada and around the world received an unexpected shock as schools, colleges and universities closed and people began working and learning from home. As faculty, instructors, students, administrators, policy-makers …
The best education apps on Android in 2022
What makes increasing your knowledge even easier is that you can do so from anywhere using your smartphone, tablet, or even a Chromebook that can run Android apps. The various education chosen for today’s roundup proves that learning new things …