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At a conference where participants discussed the sea change occurring in today’s schools and explored ways of using technology to meet the needs of a new generation of learners, perhaps it was only fitting that the opening keynote speaker was Philippe Cousteau, grandson of the famed ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who spoke of technology’s power […]
At a conference where participants discussed the sea change occurring in today’s schools and explored ways of using technology to meet the needs of a new generation of learners, perhaps it was only fitting that the opening keynote speaker was Philippe Cousteau, grandson of the famed ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who spoke of technology’s power […]
According to Chris Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard University, education is evolving “due in large part to emerging information and communications technologies.” And that’s got him excited. Read the Full Article
According to Chris Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard University, education is evolving “due in large part to emerging information and communications technologies.” And that’s got him excited. 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
India’s ministry in charge of higher education says it will make low-power laptops available, at a cost of just $10 apiece, to the Indian market within six months — as part of a major initiative to increase the number of students going to college, The Indian Express reports. Read the Full Article
Scholars, advertisers and political activists see massive online social networks as a representation of social interactions that can be used to study the propagation of ideas, social bond dynamics and viral marketing, among others. But the linked structures of social networks do not reveal actual interactions among people. Scarcity of attention and the daily rhythms […]
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 […]