Digg DiggBoth of the above quotes come to mind when I am asked, “What does a SMART Board interactive whiteboard do?” The answer is, “Pretty much anything you want it to.” The brush is only as powerful as the imagination and talent of the painter. Creative teachers and skilled artisans share the skill of being able to [...]
25 January 2012
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The population of homeschoolers in the United States continues to grow according to new research and the report,2.04 Million Homeschool Students in the United States in 2010, recently published by the National Home Education Research Institute. By their calculations, the growth rate from 2007 to the present has been 8.3% per year. Because some states [...]
16 January 2012
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Piers Lea, CEO, discusses the current and 2012 landscape for mobile learning.It is nearly two years since I gave the opinion, on this blog, that it was time for organisations to embrace mobile learning. Now in 2012, demand for mobile services is growing, not just for learning, but throughout the enterprise. A survey we conducted [...]
6 January 2012
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A robot walks into a bar and says, “I’ll have a screwdriver.” A bad joke, indeed. But even less funny if the robot says “Give me what’s in your cash register.” The fictional theme of robots turning against humans is older than the word itself, which first appeared in the title of Karel Čapek’s 1920 [...]
26 December 2011
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To ensure learning transfer requires learning leaders to make specific provisions before an event starts. If 10 CLOs were asked how best to increase the value of learning, almost all would say the same thing: Increase the amount of learning transfer in the workplace. However, if the same CLOs were asked about their own learning [...]
20 December 2011
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eLearning has revolutionized the study arena in many ways. Presently, almost all recognized global universities have eLearning programs for various disciplines. Experts are trying to find out new ways through which students can learn faster and gain better knowledge of subjects so as to impart better learning on the electronic medias. LMS or Learning Management [...]
17 October 2011
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Every day around the world, thousands of research studies are produced on every conceivable subject. So, when I checked out the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) recently, that there were over 1,700 research items listed for mobile learning or ubiquitous learning. (BASE is free to use, and many of the articles listed are “open” and [...]
3 September 2011
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Teachers have tough jobs — lots of kids and lots of responsibility — and budget cuts are making things worse. They have administrators telling them to boost achievement and personalize learning, but most of them are on their own without tools. But that is beginning to change as schools are beginning to blend traditional teaching [...]
13 July 2011
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FDA health app regulation won’t cost $30M In recent months it’s become clear that the media is increasingly turning its attention to mobile health. The attention, of course, is welcomed by most everyone working in mHealth today, but sometimes it’s painful to read the hyperbole, exaggerations, and misconceptions that are perhaps inevitable with the increase [...]
26 April 2011
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With the announcement of the iPad 2 from Apple, it is expected that the next generation of computing is here. Tablet computing has become so popular that many people carry Kindles, iPads as well as the other tablets with them whilst on the go. I recently purchased an iPad and have used it in a [...]
5 April 2011
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