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A student-centered LMS on Facebook

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Kolowich, S. (2010) Mixing work and play on Facebook Inside Higher Education, October 6 Article about Mixable, an LMS developed at Purdue University that: invites students...

NMC Horizon Report on new learning technologies for Latin America

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The 2010 Horizon Report: Edición Iberoamericana, a Spanish language edition, is the result of a collaboration between the NMC and the Open University of...

E-learning simply explained: a video

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The United Nations University has released what it calls a 'sticky concepts' video on e-learning. From the UNU: If you are a newbie in the field...

A bill of rights for cloud computing?

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McCrea, B. (2010) How Solid is Your Clouded Data? Campus Technology, September 9 If you have the patience to get beyond the really irritating pop-up...

E-book readers and scholarship: a research report

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Gielen, N. (2010) Handheld E-Book Readers and Scholarship: Report and Reader Survey New York: ACLS Humanities E-book Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of nearly...

Distance Education and Mobile Learning

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The Australian-based Distance Education journal has just brought out a special edition on distance education and mobile learning. The articles between them provide a good...

Rapid growth forecast in ICTs in BRIC countries + Indonesia

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Boston Consulting Group (2010) The Internet’s New Billion: Digital Consumers in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Indonesia Boston MA: Boston Consulting Group. You can...

Aggregated resources on online learning and the visually impaired

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(Updated, 21 April, 2021) On August 23, 2010, I posted about online learning and students with disabilities. In the post, I asked readers for suggestions...

Readers read more with e-books?

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There was a news item in today's the Globe and Mail's Wall Street Journal business section as follows: Fowler, G. and Baca, M. (2010) Growth...

Online learning and students with disabilities

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Kolowich, S. (2010) Blinding technology of online learning Inside Higher Education, August 23 In this excellent article, Steve Kolowich examines some of the issues around...