E-learning in 2011: a retrospective
'That was the year that was, it's over, let it go...', as the old song says. But before it does go, let's look back...
Online Educa Berlin 2011 program now available
The ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2011 programme is now available online. Featuring over 80 parallel sessions and 350 speakers, this year's programme centres on New...
Virtual worlds revisted
Ramaswami, R. (2011) Is There a Second Life for Virtual Worlds? Campus Technology, September 1
Palomäki, E. (2009) Applying 3D Virtual Worlds to Higher Education...
Book: Managing Technology in Higher Education now available
Bates, A. and Sangrà, A. (2011) Managing Technology in Higher Education: Strategies for Transforming Teaching and Learning San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Co.
Now out!...
Immersive virtual labs for under $150,000
Johnson, R. (2010) UMC packs 3-D visuals into cutting-edge research lab GrandForksHerald, December 1
This is a report on the University of Minnesota-Crookston's new virtual...
Journal: researching virtual worlds
The Researchers' Toolbox: Volume 3, No. 1, 2010 of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is now available. This is required reading for anyone...
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...
Summer books for e-learners
To follow up on my blog 'In defence of books', for those of you going off on a summer break, here's some book suggestions,...
Simulating teacher training in a virtual world
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...
Can web 2.0 tools be legally used for education in Canada?
I raise this as a result of an interesting question from Ron Richard,of Meritus University, Canada. Ron asked Tony Vincent, who runs the excellent...