A review of the evidence of the impact of digital technologies, on formal education. Includes sections on what the evidence says, and challenges for the future.
I’m a great fan of Jane Hart‘s Learning Tools Directory which she started in 2006. For 2010 she has completely revised the structure, reflecting how things have changed over the last 4 years. Go have a look, but in brief here are the 12 new categories (taken from Jane’s blog post) Instructional Tools Tools for [...]
Blake, Denise A (2009) What I Learned from Teaching Adult Learners Online. eLearn Magazine. Dec. http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=105-1 Abstract: One summer, I was asked to take over an online course (in a master of education program) that had already begun. I accepted the job, but with hesitation. I knew the course material because it was within my [...]
A friend in the UK sent me this today. I immediately had to find my partner and show it to her. Yes it captured my attention all right. And I went off to look at the web site mentioned at the end of the video. Now if more of our teaching could be like that. [...]
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[ad] The 2009 list is out from Jane Hart at the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies. As always this makes a great read. Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 View more documents from Jane Hart. As Derek Wenmoth has commented, the lack of the main proprietary LMSs in the list is notable. The top [...]
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