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 11th, 2010
Persico, D., Pozzi, F. and Sarti, L. (2010) Monitoring collaborative activities in computer supported collaborative learning, Distance Education, Vol. 31. No. 1, pp. 5-22
This team of Italian researchers have developed a methodology to track ‘participative, social, cognitive and teaching dimensions of the learning process’ in asynchronous, text-based online teaching in a blended learning [...]
By Tony Bates, on June 8th, 2010
Victoria Harbour, BC
On Sunday, I attended a very interesting meeting of about 50 instructional designers (what is a good collective noun for instructional designers?) from across British Columbia, at Camosun College, Victoria. This was a pre-conference workshop before the Educational Technology Users Group of BC’s Spring Workshop (more on [...]
By Tony Bates, on April 19th, 2010
Cleveland-Innes, M. and Garrison, R. (eds.) 2010 An Introduction to Distance Education: Understanding Teaching and Learning in a New Era New York/Abingdon UK: Routledge
This book is essentially a collection of essays by mainly Canadian authors, although there are also authors from the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Spain.
Chapters
The book is organized [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 20th, 2010
Student computer lab, Soshanguve Campus, Tshwane University of Technology
My review of the Tapscott and Williams article prompted this response from Ms Mandi Maodzwa-Taruvinga who is teaching in the School of Education, the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Mandi is also a Ph.D student within the Wits School of Education. Here in full [...]
|
|
Latest Comments