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The Partnership for 21st Century Skills

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is an organization with a mission to 'Serve as a catalyst to position 21st century skills at the center...

e-Learning and 21st century skills and competences

The aim of this blog This is one of several blogs that explore the question: is e-learning failing in higher education? (See Is e-learning failing...

School of the Future: Lessons in failure

Stansbury, M. (2009) School of the Future: Lessons in failure eSchool News, June 1 This is one of a very few articles that deal with...

21st Century Skills Assessment: How Ready are Your Students?

Although focused on the school/k-20 sector, eSchool News has developed a resource site of articles on how schools are addressing the issue of the...

Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World

Committee of Inquiry into the Changing Learner Experience (2009) Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World Bristol, UK: JISC/HEFCE, 52 pp. 'Supported by the principal...

Text messaging for collaborative learning in South Africa

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Makoe, M. (2009) MXit: How to Encourage and Facilitate Communication Among Students eLearning Africa Newsletter, May 12 This interview with a professor from the University...

Does technology use improve learning outcomes?

Reynard, R. (2009) Can We Gauge Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes? Campus Technology, March 25 A thoughtful essay in a long line that discusses the...

Empowering education through technology in the k-12/school sector

My web site focuses primarily on post-secondary education, and because of the volume of articles in the k-12/school sector, I rarely post articles about...

Learning in Communities of Inquiry: A Review of the Literature

Rourke, L. and Kanuka, H. (2009) Learning in Communities of Inquiry: A Review of the Literature Journal of Distance Education, Vol. 23, No. 1 From...

The Wisdom of Crowds: The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than...

Surowiecki, J. (2004) The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and...