Call for proposals about new media applications

Proposals for presentations for the NMC Symposium on New Media and Learning, a special 2-day, live online event to be held March 23-25, 2010, are being solicited through March 3. The Symposium, the fifteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia, will explore the impact of new media on teaching, learning, research, and creative [...]

The Horizon 2010 report on emerging technologies for education

Johnson, L., Levine, A., Smith, R., & Stone, S. (2010). The 2010 Horizon Report. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium

The New Media Consortium’s annual report on emerging technologies is out. It follows previous formats in identifying six technologies over three time periods. This year the authors picked the following:

One year or less

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Call for action on open education from NMC and the Open University of Catalonia

A communiqué has just been released about the outcome of the Open Ed Tech conference held jointly by NMC and UOC in Barcelona October 19-20, 2009.

Summary

‘Summit attendees generated fifty action items necessary to realize the goal of creating an institution truly responsive to the needs of students today and into the foreseeable [...]

Workshop: Making Comics into Interactive Media

Would a serious researcher look to comic books and videogames as sources of inspiration for how to transform education? Of course they would!

Join the New Media Consortium’s Connect@NMC conversation with Dr. Ruben Puentedora, CEO of NMC Partner, Hippasus on Monday, May 18, 2009 at 11:00am PT (check local time). Dr. Ruben Puentedora will [...]

Report on New Media Consortium in Second Life

Linden Lab (2009) Developing New Learning And Collaboration Environments For Educators: The New Media Consortium (NMC) In Second Life San Francisco: Linden Lab

The New Media Consortium (NMC), a non-profit consortium of learning-focused organizations founded in 1993, has nearly 300 members, including most of the top colleges and universities in the world, museums, research [...]