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Boulder, CO; May 26, 2011 – Xyleme® Inc., the leading provider of 100% XML, open and standards-based learning content management solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Pastiche™, the industry’s first application that allows organizations to offer a complete blended learning environment on a single tablet, quickly and cost-effectively.SOURCE: Xyleme® Inc. Read the Full Article
AbstractIn today’s Web 2.0 world, teachers are perpetually struggling with how to incorporate technology into the classroom effectively in order to meet the diverse literacy needs of 21st-century learners. Utilizing the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE, 2008) Position Statement addressing these needs, the theoretical framework of Lankshear and Knobel (2006), and work by […]
The University of Rhode Island has begun working with IBM on a project that will test out the company’s ability to automate some of the work involved in connecting researchers to funding sources and collaborators. SOURCE: Campus Technology Read the Full Article
Abstract A qualitative research project was conducted to test the viability of augmenting an e-learning program for workplace learners using mobile content delivered through smart phones. Ten learners taking a six week web-based e-learning course were given smart phones which enabled them to access approximately 70% of the course content, in addition to having access […]
U.S. Education Department expands on edict to colleges about not shutting out disabled students with technology. SOURCE: Inside Higher EdRead the Full Article
FAIRBANKS — Parents are huge in the Interior Distance Education of Alaska program. Parents were the ones who taught the students who received diplomas Tuesday night through the IDEA home school assistance program. Read the Full Article
E-Learning Africa 2011 is scheduled to be opened in Dar es Salaam today as the largest pan-African conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development, Education and Training.Read the Full Article
Students object to university’s consideration of plan to monitor them through their ID cards.Read the Full Article
The Open University of Tanzania (OUT) in collaboration with African Virtual University (AVU) has launched a nationwide programme to equip secondary schoolteachers and teachers’ training college instructors with e-learning skills.Read the Full Article
Arizona students are taking online classes by the thousands, and with a change in state law, they have more options to do so.