I know that if you write a blog, you will get criticism, and it’s been a good week for that, what with the Tapscott and William’s response and the reaction to my posting about virtual worlds. I really do welcome your comments, positive or negative, and usually I am happy to let the comments speak [...]
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McCrea, B. (2010) Getting face-to-face with distance education Campus Technology, February 17. Another really interesting article. If online teaching has a ‘birth’, it was at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the late 1970s, when Murray Turoff and Roxanne Hiltz started experimenting with collaborative learning for classroom based students but using the Internet (see Hiltz, [...] Young, J. (2010) After Frustrations in Second Life, Colleges Look to New Virtual Worlds Chronicle of Higher Education, February 14 This excellent article looks at how educational institutions seem to be moving away from Second Life to create virtual worlds that focus on the specific needs of teaching and learning. Interestingly, Young notes: It turns [...]
Brimah, T. and Fusch, D. (2010) Considering mobile learning for your institution Academic Impressions Higher Ed Impact: Weekly Analysis January 28 This article, basically an interview with Judy Brown, ‘founder and former director of the University of Wisconsin system’s Academic ADL Co-Lab and a key thinker in mobile learning strategies’, is one of the [...] Brandon, B. (2010) Apple’s iPad: what does it offer for e-learning? Learning Solutions Magazine January 27 I was wondering how to comment on the iPad without having actually seen it (it’s not available yet in Canada), when Clayton Wright (many thanks) directed me to this article, which is comprehensive and with regard to e-learning, reflects both [...] |
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