Review: AT&T Video Share an appealing, but far from perfect, prelude to video phones
ATLANTA (AP) — My cell phone flickered to life in the middle of a rowdy party, and seconds later, my fiancee’s face brightened up the screen.Read the Full Article
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Algeria: bomb explosion in Boumerdes The oldest grand son of Queen Elisabeth II about to get married
UNESCO sponsored a project aiming at developing distance education in Afghanistan by creating the Educational Radio and Television (ERTV).Read the Full Article
Adobe Upgrades Captivate eLearning Tool
Adobe has launched Captivate 3 software, an eLearning authoring tool for the delivery of computer-based simulations, scenario-based training, and interactive quizzes.Read the Full Article
On Becoming a Qualitative Researcher: The Value of Reflexivity
Learning how to conduct qualitative research may seem daunting for those new to the task, especially given the paradigm’s emphasis on complexity and emergent design. Although there are guidelines in the literature, each project is unique and ultimately the individual researcher must determine how best to proceed. Reflexivity is thus considered essential, potentially facilitating understanding […]
nhancing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Evaluation of a Scheme to Improve Teaching and Learning Through Action Research
This paper reports on evaluation of a scheme to improve University teaching through action research over a five-year period in the science, engineering, and technology division of a large Australian dual sector University. Between 2002 to 2006 this scheme directly committed approximately A$210,000 in grants and involved over 130 teaching and other staff in sponsoring […]
Using Focus Groups for Student Evaluation of Teaching
Traditional means of evaluating instruction, though reliable, are limited in scope. In this paper, I provide an argument and a template for the use of focus groups as a supplemental tool for gathering student feedback. I begin with a brief discussion of focus groups and an examination of the traditional student evaluation process. Next, I […]
RateMyProfessors.com versus formal in-class student evaluations of teaching
Using data for 426 instructors at the University of Maine, we examined the relationship between RateMyProfessors.com (RMP) indices and formal in-class student evaluations of teaching (SET). The two primary RMP indices correlate substantively and significantly with their respective SET items: RMP overall quality correlates r = .68 with SET item, Overall, how would you rate […]
Student Course Evaluations: Common Themes across Courses and Years
Student course evaluations were analyzed for common themes across five different basic science, clinical, and innovative courses from the first and third years of medical school. Each course had both unique and common numerically scaled items including an overall quality rating item. A principal components analysis was conducted for each course to determine the items […]
CULTURE, CULTURE LEARNING AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES: TOWARDS A PEDAGOGICAL FRAMEWORK
This paper seeks to improve approaches to the learning and teaching of culture using new technologies by relating the key qualities and dimensions of the culture concept to elements within a pedagogical framework. In Part One, five facets of the culture concept are developed: culture as elemental; culture as relative; culture as group membership; culture […]
Cult of Macintosh: The IPhone Verdict Is In: It’s Finger-Clickin’ Good
I was going to file last week’s column about how wonderful the iPhone is from my iPhone — but after laboriously typing out several hundred words using the onscreen keyboard, my work mysteriously disappeared.Read the Full Article