Digg DiggKids make up a large portion of the ebook audience. Very often when a parent buys a new device–whether a tablet, smartphone, or ereader–the previous device gets turned over to the kids. As a result, the amount of electronic children’s offerings available is growing, both revamped classics as well as new titles designed as [...]
17 February 2012
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Today is Digital eLearning Day, a national promotional effort by the Alliance for Excellence in Education to call attention to using technology in schools. More than 10,000 teachers and 1.5 million students have signed up in support to “celebrate innovative teachers and highlight instructional practices that strengthen teaching and personalize learning for all students,” according [...]
2 February 2012
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As Apple pushes out its new education products, new information about whether using the iPad gives students an advantage over using print books is starting to surface. Results from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s year-long study comparing students using the publisher’s iPad algebra app are in from Amelia Earhart school in Riverside, Calif., and it’s largely positive, according to the company. [...]
24 January 2012
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The article talks about flipped classroom, flipped model, flipped learning model. It is of help for those who want to learn about what is elearning, online learning, and flipped learning, etc all about. Learning in the flipped classroom is something that happens if the learner and / or teacher go against the traditional chalk and [...]
12 January 2012
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The Diffusion Simulation Game is a game developed by Indiana University in which players explore strategies that result in the adoption of innovation in a fictitious junior high. The goal is to get stakeholders (the school principal, teachers, and support staff) to adopt peer tutoring. As a player, you can decide whether to gather information, talk to [...]
10 January 2012
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Author and performance support expert, Bob Mosher, is presenting at January’s Learning Technologies Conference in London on supporting performance by supplying the right type of learning – at the time learners need it. The Learning Technologies Conference in January is to challenge L&D professionals to get to grips with their role in enabling performance and [...]
3 January 2012
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Given the work that I do, I’m a sucker for skill lists. As our work worlds grow ever more complex and challenging, it seems that the skills themselves become more complex too. Increasingly, though, I’ve begun to believe that these lists are distracting us from the real skills of success. While working with big data, operating in [...]
30 December 2011
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According to a recent online survey done by Software Usability Research Laboratory, 83.65 percent of iPad users are satisfied with their tablet, with 62 percent rating user-friendliness as “excellent. No wonder Apple’s newest device has the top-selling tablet in the world for almost two years. From the participants surveyed, there were more first generation iPad [...]
23 December 2011
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Evert business has to struggle hard to extract the best performance out of employees. While some companies use the mix of various managerial tools, there are others who believe in the process of earning from learning. As a matter of fact, learning is one of the simplest ways to improve the performance of human resource [...]
2 December 2011
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Fifty MBA graduate students (two sections) in a very traditional research methods course had the option to use hyperlinks, PDF files, Doc files, YouTube videos and other topical resources to supplement and augment their classroom experience. The purpose of the study was to determine if the use of electronic media and digital media, otherwise referred [...]
9 November 2011
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