Tough choices face state legislators
Alabama legislators have been spoiled. Their task of adopting state budgets is made much easier when there is lots of revenue growth, which state government has experienced in recent years.Read the Full Article
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E-Learning Today: A Review of Research on Hypertext Navigation
Use of hypertext is pervasive in education today—it is used for all online course delivery as well as many stand-alone delivery methods such as educational computer software and compact discs (CDs). This article will review Kintsch’s Construction-Integration and Anderson’s Adaptive Control of Thought-Rational (ACT-R) cognitive architectures and examine how each explains the empirical evidence of […]
Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0
he world has become increasingly “flat,†as Tom Friedman has shown. Thanks to massive improvements in communications and transportation, virtually any place on earth can be connected to markets anywhere else on earth and can become globally competitive.1 But at the same time that the world has become flatter, it has also become “spikierâ€: the […]
Web 2.0 Threats Loom Large for IT
With the seemingly exponential growth of Web 2.0 technologies, IT professionals in education–and all other sectors, for that matter–face new challenges as control over technology slips away and moves into the hands of users. Read the Full Article
Interoperability for Searching Learning Object Repositories
With the worldwide adoption of the Internet as a ubiquitous platform for exchanging information, new opportunities are available for sharing educational experiences and material. Thousands of institutes worldwide offer access to courses, lessons, seminars, and exercises, typically stored in repositories and offered to users under a variety of formats. Due to their educational nature, these […]
Blackboard, D2L square off for court fight
Allegations fly as Blackboard’s patent infringement suit against Desire2Learn heads for a showdown Read the Full Article
Hidden depths: If you join the Royal Navy you can travel the world and even go to business school, reports Ian Wylie
What is 318ft long, weighs 7,400 tonnes, and contains a nuclear reactor that could power 10,000 homes? HMS Astute is one of the Royal Navy’s new generation of “hunter-killer” attack submarines. Packed with the latest Spearfish torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles, it can glide around the globe without once surfacing or refuelling.Read the Full Article
CurriculumOnline
Here you’ll find ALL the multimedia resources to support teaching and learning that your school can buy with its eLCs and other funds. All resources support the curriculum taught in schools in England from Foundation to KS4. Many are free. Evaluate and compare resources before buying direct from suppliers.Read the Full Article
Google’s Answer to Wikipedia
Google’s Knol project aims to make online information easier to find and more authoritative.Read the Full Article