By Tony Bates, on August 18th, 2010
Lee, M. and McCoughlin, C. (2010) Web 2.0 Based e-Learning: Applying Social Informatics for Tertiary Learning Hershey PA: IGI Global, 415 pp, US$180 hardback
Description (from publisher)
Educational communities today are rapidly increasing their interest in Web 2.0 and e-learning advancements for the enhancement of teaching practices.
Web 2.0-Based E-Learning: [...]
By Tony Bates, on July 26th, 2010
Hong Kong
Recently the Open University of Hong Kong launched its free digital platform called ‘Open Learning ‘.
‘Open Learning gathers together a wealth of audio-visual educational materials and courseware unit covering a broad range of subject areas…There are TV programmes produced by the University’s Educational Technology and [...]
By Tony Bates, on July 9th, 2010
PebblePad is a British e-portfolio system that ‘provides scaffolding to help users create records of learning, achievement and aspiration and has a reflective structure underpinning all of its core elements.’
I don’t usually ‘push’ particular products, but PeddlePad has an excellent five minute presentation that provides a clear description of the many elements of [...]
By Tony Bates, on May 19th, 2010
The Spring 2009 edition of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology has just been published (no, this is not a typo – it is one year late).
Note that it has moved to being an open access, open source journal (hooray, sincerely, and about time).
There is also a lot in it (if [...]
By Tony Bates, on May 12th, 2010
Just in case you missed the announcement, the iPad goes on sale in Canada on May 28.
Prices range from C$549 (16 GB) to C$879 (64GB + 3G).
For more information or to pre-order, click here
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