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Blackboard acquires Elluminate and Wimba: the end of LMSs?

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Kolowich, S. (2010) Blackboard's big buy Inside Higher Education, July 8 This article leaves me as depressed as a Netherlands soccer supporter. Elluminate follows another...

Simulating teacher training in a virtual world

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Kolowich, S. (2010) Avatars to teach the teachers Inside Higher Education, July 7 An article about a really interesting project, TeachME, by faculty in the...

Mr Bates goes to Ottawa: or increasing access to post-secondary education

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The context OK, I'm not James Stewart, and it wasn't Washington, and this posting's a little late, due to other things, but this is a...

Simulations in paramedical training

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The Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) offers a range of applied and academic programs that span the spectrum of safety - from prevention...

Mobile learning in schools

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I don't normally cover k-12 (too much extra work and not my area of expertise) but I liked this web site  about St Marys...

What should the Canadian government do to increase access to post-secondary education?

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This is really a posting for Canadian readers, but we're not too proud to take suggestions from anywhere! I have the honour of being invited...

Do social media result in less sensitive people?

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Science Daily (2010) Empathy: College students don't have as much as they used to, study finds Science Daily, May 29 Some people have bad hair...

The impact of digitization on the study of literature

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Parry, M. (2010) The humanities go Google Chronicle of Higher Education, June 3 In 1959, a physicist and novelist at Cambridge University, C.P. Snow, argued...

Mobile phone security on campus

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McCrea, B. (2010) iPhones on Campus: Network Security Goes Mobile Campus Technology, May 27 An article more for IT specialists, it also provides a further...

Integrating technology in Zambian schools

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Chikunduzi, L. (2010) Digital lessons at Copperbelt College e-Learning Africa News Portal, May This article shows how one school managed to train all its teachers...