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About 12 million Americans keep blogs, according to a survey released last July by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. But even more people might become bloggers if blogs weren’t so, well, public. After all, who really wants to share a high-school-reunion video with stockbrokers in Istanbul or teenagers in Tokyo?Read the Full Article
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been asked to re-examine its grant of Blackboard’s 44 claims in the patent. Read the Full Article
A patent dispute pitting open source advocates for online learning technologies against Blackboard, the industry giant, became more bitter Thursday with the announcement that a formal request had been filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to revoke 44 of Blackboard’s patent claims.Read the Full Article
NASHUA, N.H. — SkillSoft PLC, an online education and training software maker, said Friday the Federal Trade Commission antitrust waiting period for its acquisition of NETg ended early.Read the Full Article
BSTRACT: The “Anywhere, Anytime, Anyway†slogan is frequently associated to e-learning with the aim to emphasize the wide access offered by on-line education. Otherwise, learning materials are currently created to be used with a specific technology or configuration, leaving out from the virtual classroom students who have limited access capabilities and, in particular, students with […]
Abstract Part II of Making Your Own Materials describes a cognitive structure for learning from multimedia and a design model, both of which rely on the durability of sound and its natural resistance to interference and forgetting. The cognitive structure is called the attentional control definition of multimedia learning, the design model is called the […]
Abstract: This paper reports the results of an empirical study that investigated the instructional design process of three teams involved in the development of an e-learning unit. The teams declared they were using the same fast-prototyping design and development model, and were composed of the same roles (although with a different number of SMEs). Results […]
Wikipedia is an free, online encyclopaedia which anyone can add content to or edit the existing content of. The idea behind Wikipedia is that members of the general public can add their own personal knowledge, anonymously if they wish. Wikipedia then evolves over time into a comprehensive knowledge base on all things. Its popularity has […]
AbstractThe focus of this paper is the perspectives of people, both employers and employees, who are engaged in lifelong e-learning, within the UK economy. It puts forward two models of lifelong e-learning. One of which reflects employees’ approaches to their own e-learning and self development, the employee model. The other model reflects the motivations of […]
Lectures can present barriers to learning for many students and although online multimedia materials have become technically easier to create and offer many benefits for learning and teaching, they also can be difficult to access, manage, and exploit. This presentation will explain and demonstrate how automatic speech recognition can enhance the quality of learning and […]