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 May 3rd, 2010
Lloyd, M. (2010) 18 Web 2.0 tools for instruction Campus Technology, April 28
This very useful article asks two experts, Sarah Robbins (aka Intellagirl), of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University-Bloomington, and Mark Frydenberg of Bentley University, to pick their favourite web 2.0 tools for instruction. Here’s their choices (read the article [...]
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 April 1st, 2010
I believe that we will see no real innovation, no fundamental change, in post-secondary education, at least from within, unless all instructors have basic training in teaching at a post-secondary level.
I was involved in developing a post-graduate certificate in technology-based distributed learning which later morphed into a full Master in Educational Technology at [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 29th, 2010
Graham Attwell is running a thoughtful min-series of blogs on this topic. See:
Attwell, G. (2009) e-portfolios-WTF Pontydysgu: Bridge to Learning, September 4
Attwell, G. (2010) Re-thinking e-portfolios Pontydysgu: Bridge to Learning, March 14
Attwell, G. (2010) More notes on e-Portfolios, PLEs, Web 2.0 and social software Pontydysgu: Bridge to Learning, March 16
Attwell, [...]
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