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Can social networking technologies foster effective workplace learning? This was the question I posed to myself as a graduate student studying organizational psychology and adult development. Having prior experience in human resources, I knew about the rising trend of integrating social networking technologies into the workplace, and I wanted to explore how this particular type [...]

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American students need a 21st-century education to thrive in our 21st-century world. That’s the premise behind a slew of initiatives to incorporate more technology into classrooms. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation last week announced its $20 million Next Generation Learning Challenges to encourage the development of education technologies that will deepen student engagement. “The [...]

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A number of built-in features, tools, and add-ons are helping to propel Apple’s iPad into the classroom. Technology analyst Denise Harrison looks at the benefits of iPad in education and predicts some unanticipated applications

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Summary This document introduces the subject of mobile learning for education purposes.  It examines what impact mobile devices have had on teaching and learning practices and goes on to look at the opportunities presented by the use of digital media on mobile devices. Introduction Mobile learning is considered to be the ability to use mobile [...]

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I just posted about a number of Education Technology tools. In this post I want to further explore my thinking on education technology. My current unit of study, Education Technology through Central Queensland University has required us to consider online learning in terms of both Kearsley and Shneiderman (1998)’s Engagement Theory and Oliver’s (1999) ICT learning design framework (see image). [...]

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By Luke Turcotte, from HackCollege. eBook readers are quickly becoming the go-to method to read print media. Perhaps the most exciting advantage is the ability to carry thousands of books on a thin device. Yes students, this means you could condense a semesters worth of heavy textbooks into a few thousand bytes on your Kindle, Nook [...]

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I had the pleasure of participating in a small symposium on quality in e-learning last week, organized by Athabasca University and the International Council for Distance Education. One of the things that bothers me about the quality issue is that only seems to reach the top of the agenda when e-learning is involved. The discussion seems to [...]

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While her colleagues across the nation are patrolling their classrooms to confiscate distracting electronic gadgets, one New Jersey teacher is harnessing her student’s attraction to the devices to help them learning English. Grace Poli, media specialist at Jose Marti Middle School in Union City, N.J., uses iPods to teach English as a Second Language (ESL) [...]