The future of the textbook?
Keith Hampson's Higher Education Management Group site has an interesting posting of Wired Magazine's video about a new digital biology textbook costing $10 million...
NMC Horizon Report on new learning technologies for Latin America
The 2010 Horizon Report: Edición Iberoamericana, a Spanish language edition, is the result of a collaboration between the NMC and the Open University of...
Free new guide to teaching at a distance from South Africa
The South African Institute of Distance Education has developed a new guide for adjunct instructors supporting learners at a distance (called tutors outside North...
New book on Web 2.0 and Social Informatics for Tertiary Learning
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
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Open educational resources in Chinese and English
Recently the Open University of Hong Kong launched its free digital platform called 'Open Learning '.
'Open Learning gathers together a wealth of audio-visual educational...
A short introduction to PebblePad, an e-portfolio system
PebblePad is a British e-portfolio system that 'provides scaffolding to help users create records of learning, achievement and aspiration and has a reflective structure...
Do we need academic journals any more?
The Spring 2009 edition of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology has just been published (no, this is not a typo - it...
IPad on sale in Canada May 28
Just in case you missed the announcement, the iPad goes on sale in Canada on May 28.
Prices range from C$549 (16 GB) to C$879...
New journal: Impact: Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning
A new journal from Australia (where e-learning in vocational and technical education is particularly strong - see the Australian Flexible Learning Network).
The inaugural edition...
Special IRRODL edition on connectivism: articles wanted
IRRODL (the International Review of Research on Open and Distance Learning) is now requesting contributions for peer review and possible publication in an upcoming...