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This paper reports on the initial findings from the ESRC project, Digital Literacies in Higher Education. This project offers a complementary perspective to much of the research on e-learning and student learning in a digital age. Read the Full Article
The Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the California State University, Fresno leverages the university system’s vast resources–with 23 campuses the CSU is one of the largest higher education systems in the world–to assist innovators, entrepreneurs, students, and the community at large in the development of business and entrepreneurship. Read the Full Article
Abstract: This article explores excellence in web-based teaching. Drawing on the views of experts in the field and the perspective of their own years of experience, the authors compiled a list of 9 principles to provide direction in the search for online excellence. The principles include: the online world is a medium unto itself; sense […]
This paper presents a chat tool, called LoL classroom, which recreates the environment of a physical university classroom. The tool draws inspiration from the basic principles of constructivism and overcomes the main limitations of traditional chat rooms. We discuss the underlying teaching and interaction models, we outline the main features and we present the user […]
Compiling and editing an encyclopedia involves numerous management challenges, ranging from securing interested contributors, to motivating them to stay on time and on task, to satisfying the publisher’s demands, to haggling over content standards. I know these challenges from having spent the past several months compiling and editing the five-volume Encyclopedia of the History of […]
Those educators among us who are familiar with constructivist and constructionist models of learning understand the impact that social learning theory has had on the field. Likewise those of us who are familiar with the application of new technology in learning understand that customization (or “the user”) is what drives every structure, every program, and […]
This paper examines the impact of weblogs on individual learning processes in a university environment. It outlines experiences with weblogs as an instrument of learning reflection or a learning journal. This paper presents an innovative didactical concept based on the Web 2.0 paradigm and evolving technologies. Read the Full Article
Using video games, virtual simulations, and other digital spaces for learning can be a time-consuming process; aside from technical issues that may absorb class time, students take longer to achieve gains in learning in virtual environments.Read the Full Article
A unified approach to the presentation of information for online learning can inform the creation of pedagogically effective web pagesRead the Full Article
What happens when the read-write web gets smart enough to help us organize and evaluate the information it provides?Read the Full Article