Canadian corporate innovation in e-learning

Galt, V. (2010) How to bake agility into corporate DNA Globe and Mail, May 20

In my blog on Six Priorities for Canadian e-learning in 2010 I wrote:

Canada is a leader in mobile technology (Research in Motion, Nortel’s merger with Avaya, etc.), the Canadian mobile networks have just been opened up [...]

Preliminary book review: An Introduction to Distance Education

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 [...]

Games to defeat obesity, Napoleon, and students’ learning, and other games’ news

From Natasha Boskic:

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco (March 9-13, 2010), US Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra announced the Apps for Healthy Kids game development challenge promoting healthy lifestyle changes in young adults. The competition is a part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign to end childhood obesity within [...]

Using technology to help street kids in Kenya

Kyama, R. (2010) How ICTs Are Transforming the Lives of Street Children in Kenya e-Learning Africa, February 22

Sometimes I do get depressed and down about the lack of progress or barriers to change in using technology for education, then I get my monthly copy of the e-Learning Africa News Portal, and I feel [...]

Further news on games

Thanks to Natasha Boskic for this:

Doh, J. (2010). Centian is looking forward to playing with humans again. ARGNet, Alternate Reality Gaming Network, February 14, 2010.

Similar to the previously announced EVOKE, this ARG plunges right into 2.0 technologies and spreads on all fronts, starting with information notes posted on twitter, inviting players to [...]