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Video conferencing systems provider Polycom Inc. has launched “Polycom Collaborations Around the Planet,†a global social network and directory that helps educators connect with their peers. Read the Full Article
Evoking associations with musty, forgotten archives and spiral notebooks in the field, anthropology doesn’t immediately come to mind as a discipline fully situated in the modern, wired world. On the contrary, anthropologists have been tackling the implications of technologies on ethnography with each new innovation, from handheld 16-millimeter film cameras and cassette tapes several decades […]
Inspired by YouTube’s success, several new science video web sites have sprung up onlineRead the Full Article
Introduction: From Elite to Mass Higher Education A recent special edition of International Higher Education focused on the demographic trends associated with the emerging universal aspiration for access to higher education, and associated projections that global student numbers will almost double to reach 160 million by 2025 (Klemencic, M. & Fried, J 2007). In a […]
A survey explored scholars’ attitudes about educational technology environments in the humanitiesRead the Full Article
Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute:authors create and collaborateinstructors rapidly build and share custom collectionslearners find and explore contentRead the Full Article
The Digital Classroom is the National Archives’ gateway for resources about primary sources, activities and training for educators and students.Access the site
As online tools become more ubiquitous inside and outside the classroom, and the growth of distance learning continues, education researchers have begun to focus on how best to harness new technologies. Advocates for the classical lecture experience still exist, of course, but the general trend has been toward incorporating various technologies into the classroom, from […]
Home Course (www.home-course.co.uk) has launched a new information portal about home study and home learning courses in the UK. Open Study, distance learning and the home learning environment in the UK is a rapidly growing field catering for individuals who can’t accommodate conventional studying methods and who may wish to fit their studying around existing […]
