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Department of Educational Technology at Boise State University is now accepting applications for our Ed.D. in Educational Technology program. The degree is offered entirely online, with no physical attendance requirements. The primary focus of the Ed.D. program at Boise State is to prepare educational technology professionals for leadership roles in various academic settings (K12, higher […]
The first issue of the Journal of Learning Spaces has been published: http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ojs/index.php/jls/. This NEW journal is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, open access publication on all aspects of learning space design, operation, pedagogy, and assessment. Registered readers may post comments and questions on any of the submissions, and will receive journal announcements and Table of Contents […]
Abstract A lot has been written about the digital native since the coining of the term about ten years ago. A lot of what has been originally written by the digital native has been taken as common sense and has been repeated many times in many educational contexts, but until recently the true nature of […]
eSchool News counts down the ten most significant developments in educational technology during the past yearSOURCE: eSchool NewsRead the Full Article
Register now: SIIA’s Learning Registry Webinar – December 20, 2011 The Learning Registry: A How To Primer for Digital Content Publishers and AggregatorsDECEMBER 20, 2011 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm (Eastern)WebinarThe Learning Registry (LR) is an open source technical system designed to facilitate the capturing, sharing, and analyzing of learning resource data to broaden the […]
Imagine yourself emerging from the Way Back Machine in London, England. It’s 1526. Henry VIII is on the throne. You furtively duck into a shop, and quickly head to the back room. You’ve come to buy an English translation of the New Testament. The mere possession of this book is punishable by death.SOURCE: Inside Higher […]
Last month I wrote an overview about recent research on the workings of human memory, with the help of a journal article on the subject published in College Teaching.Michelle Miller, a cognitive psychologist at Northern Arizona University, wrote the article and agreed to answer some questions I had, for this two-part series, on how memory […]
Imagine you have a sore shoulder, so you visit a physical therapist and come away with a set of exercises that she says will help improve your condition. A month later, with your shoulder no better, you return and ask why the exercises aren’t working.“I have no idea,” she responds. “I don’t actually know anything […]
By almost every educational measure, the Agora Cyber Charter School is failing. Nearly 60 percent of its students are behind grade level in math. Nearly 50 percent trail in reading. A third do not graduate on time. And hundreds of children, from kindergartners to seniors, withdraw within months after they enroll. SOURCE: The New York […]