Web literacy: Where the Common Core meets common sense
We believe it’s essential for every teacher to develop lessons that challenge students to learn how to verify sources; here’s one example eSchool News Full Article
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With Desire2Learn Learning Suite 10, clients are experiencing the most advanced platform to date combining incredible usability and personalization with feature-rich capabilities
With Desire2Learn Learning Suite 10, clients are experiencing the most advanced platform to date combining incredible usability and personalization with feature-rich capabilities. Desire2Learn Press Release
LJ [Library Journal] Talks to David Weinberger About the Living Web
David Weinberger, currently a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, has written widely about the impact of the Internet on knowledge and culture. After co-authoring the influential Cluetrain Manifesto, he went on to explore the social nature of the web […]
7 Things You Should Know About the Evolution of the Textbook
Tablet devices and the publishing they enable are leading us to reconsider what constitutes a textbook, and they certainly change the landscape of what it has traditionally meant to write and publish one. EDUCAUSE Full Article
Educational Technology Is Key to Job Training, Panelists Say
Washington — A computer gamer who struggles through a series of challenges to advance to the next level is demonstrating some of the characteristics that employers are seeking, particularly in technology-related fields where jobs are going unfilled, a White House official told about 250 education, government, and nonprofit representatives here on Tuesday. Wired Campus Full […]
Archive Watch: Building a National Cooperative for Archival Standards
Washington — The nation’s archives contain multitudes of documents that detail the lives and experiences of individuals, families, and groups. Archivists don’t lack for material to manage. What they could use is a consistent, broadly used standard for so-called authority control—a way to reliably, thoroughly describe archival holdings and contexts so that they’re discoverable by […]
eSN Publisher’s Report: Visibility within the cloud
bringing a better experience to students, staff, and others New technologies have emerged that make cloud computing a more dynamic and user-centric experience. Editor’s note: This Publisher’s Report was sponsored by Stoneware Inc. With earlier generations of technology, the term “cloud computing” was an apt description for more reasons than one: As users connected to […]
MOOCs and the Professoriate
Last week, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman wrote with evangelical zeal about the arrival of Massive Online Open Courses, the free courses from top institutions available to students anywhere in the world. Not only would MOOCs be a huge industry in five years, he said, but financially strapped community colleges could use the online […]
Distance no barrier in building empathy, says researcher
Distance learners can feel more confident interacting online than they would in the classroom, new research shows. Dr Wayne Duncan graduated last week with a Doctor of Education. His thesis examined the nature and function of empathy in synchronous multimedia conferencing. Massey University Press Release
The Wait is Over: The LMS and the ePortfolio Merge to Serve a Culture of Learning
“The CMS became the IMS became the LMS became…” A few short years from now, what will we tell our children about the storied past of the LMS? What will it become? In the 1990s, the course management system (CMS) emerged to help faculty manage their courses through the Web. The name morphed to IMS […]