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Need a college loan? Ask your friends online.

Christina Christopher was two classes shy of an MBA when DeVry University told her she’d run out of financial aid. She had relied on federal loans, but she hit her limit. With no cosigner for a private loan, she was open to any option she could find. Read the Full ArticleSource: Christian Science Monitor

Special Reports 10 Emerging Technologies 2009

MIT’s Technology Review presents its annual list of 10 technologies that can change the way we live. Read the Full ArticleSource: Technology Review

Virtual Schools

Can new education technologies short-circuit change-resistant politics and remake our schools? Or are well-intended advocates once again overhyping the ability of electrons and processors to solve thorny problems of teaching and learning? In this Education Next forum, John Chubb of Edison Schools and Stanford University political scientist Terry Moe make the case for the transformative […]

Virtual Schools

Can new education technologies short-circuit change-resistant politics and remake our schools? Or are well-intended advocates once again overhyping the ability of electrons and processors to solve thorny problems of teaching and learning? In this Education Next forum, John Chubb of Edison Schools and Stanford University political scientist Terry Moe make the case for the transformative […]

7 Things You Should Know About Alternate Reality Games

Alternate reality games (ARGs) weave together real-world artifacts with clues and puzzles hidden virtually any place, such as websites, libraries, museums, stores, signs, recorded telephone messages, movies, television programs, or printed materials. ARGs are not computer or video games, but electronic devices are frequently used to access clues. Players can meet and talk with characters […]

Design Principles Database (DPD)!

Whether you are an educational technology researcher, a learning scientist, a designer of web-based learning materials, or a teacher using technology, the DPD is a place for you to learn from the wisdom gained by dozens of researchers who have designed, enacted with students, and studied the use of technology for learning. This wisdom is […]

The use of video in higher education has moved beyond mere lecture capture.

Faced with a student population that has learned to take online and digital media for granted not to mention a global financial crisis”educators and educational institutions responded by embracing the tools of digital media production and distribution in a big way in 2008. Read the Full Article Source: SreamingMedia.com

Death of the dotcom degree

American astronomer Clifford Stoll believes that “techies” like himself have a responsibility to challenge the hype surrounding computers. And if anyone is qualified to do so, it is Stoll: he is one of the pioneers of the internet. Read the Full Article Source: The Age

Alberta university uses online technology to take lessons way out of the classroom

Why look at a PowerPoint presentation about Mars in a science class when you can wander its red ridges and canyons? Read the Full Article Source: The Canadian Press

Alberta university uses online technology to take lessons way out of the classroom

Why look at a PowerPoint presentation about Mars in a science class when you can wander its red ridges and canyons? Read the Full Article Source: The Canadian Press