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Beyond the basics of mobile device rollouts: ideas for the learning environment

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Digg DiggSo, you’ve decided to give these new-fangled mobile devices a place at your 21st century education (a term I use because I know so many can’t stand it) table. Your students will thank you. During the initial planning and implementation phase of your work to tap into the potential benefits of mobile learning (such [...]

11 October 2010  No comments

Mobile Learning for Education

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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 [...]

8 October 2010  No comments

Benefits of Using Elearning Solutions in Training Dispersed Workforce

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Benefits of Using Elearning Solutions in Training Dispersed Workforce Outsourcing business functions has been a common practice among companies of different sizes from small enterprises to those belonging to the Fortune 50 club. While this move could really improve the operations of companies, it could also bring some disadvantages when it comes to employee training [...]

28 September 2010  5 comments

Education Technology reflections

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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). [...]

22 September 2010  No comments

How to Digitize Your Textbooks

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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 [...]

20 September 2010  1 comment

Notre Dame launches eReader study, creates first paperless course

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I really impress by Corey Angst “This has become known as the iPad class,” Corey Angst, assistant professor of management at the University of Notre Dame, told his students on their first day of class Aug. 24. “It’s actually not…it’s ‘Project Management.’” A member of Notre Dame’s ePublishing Working Group, Angst is debuting the University’s [...]

17 September 2010  No comments

Quality in E-Learning

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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 [...]

16 September 2010  No comments

Five Ways for Teachers to Make Good Elearning Communications

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Five Ways for Teachers to Make Good Elearning Communications With the fast development of online elearning, over 65 percent of education organizations use LMS (Learning Management System) for education and more than 83.8 million registered elearning users are received online education courses as of 2010. It has become a sensitive as well as import topic [...]

14 September 2010  No comments

iPods becoming instrumental in teaching new languages

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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) [...]

8 September 2010  No comments

Pros and Cons of Rapid e-Learning

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Have you been blinded by the glare of Rapid eLearning Products yet? Yes No What’s your answer? I know that it’s difficult to answer this question objectively.  Don’t worry – let’s begin by first looking at some of its obvious advantages. Advantages of Rapid e-Learning: Rapid e-learning has multiple advantages. Here are 3 important benefits [...]

7 September 2010  No comments
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