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ABSTRACT: In the Norwegian DoCTA and DoCTA NSS projects we aimed to bring a theoretical perspective to the design of ICT-mediated learning environments that support the sociocultural aspects of human interaction and to evaluate their use. By taking a sociocultural perspective on learning activity focussing on the interpersonal social interaction in collaborative learning settings we […]
lthough our health professional students have some experience of simple charts, such as pie and bar, and some intuition of histograms, they do not appear to have much knowledge or understanding about box and whisker plots and their relation to the data they are describing or compared to histograms. The boxplot is a versatile charting […]
In the end, as the story of the emperor’s new clothes reminds us, somebody has to break the spell. In May 2003, ÂNicholas Carr cast himself in the naysayer’s role by publishing an article titled “IT Doesn’t Matter” in the Harvard Business Review.Read the Full Article
We performed a two-phase, year-long research project that explored the impact of peer feedback on language development. We investigated specifically how and when post-secondary learners of English and Spanish provide corrective feedback on their partners’ use of the target language in weekly asynchronous discussions by assigning them to one of two conditions: e-tutoring, in which […]
Blackboard has prevailed in an e-learning patent dispute against Desire2Learn. A federal jury in Lufkin, TX made the determination Friday afternoon, following a two-week trial. Blackboard was seeking $17 million in lost revenue, as well as an injunction against the company, which is based in Canada.Read the Full Article
United States Distance Learning Association holds 2008 National Distance Learning Week to generate broader awareness and appreciation for distance learning.Read the Full Article
Last month, a survey by Marshall Breeding, director for innovative technologies and research at Vanderbilt University’s library, revealed a measure of discord over the options available to librarians for automating their electronic catalogs and databases, software called integrated library systems.Read the Full Article
PITTSBURGH (AP) — People will increasingly interact with computers using speech or touch screens rather than keyboards, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said.Read the Full Article
Technology Review presents its annual list of the 10 most exciting technologies.Read the Full Article
Dimdim is the world´s first free web meeting service based on the open source platform. Dimdim is a browser-based web 2.0 service that allows anybody to share their desktop, show slides, as well as talk, listen, chat, and broadcast via webcam. Dimdim´s hosted service is available for free and can be easily used for small […]