Many would agree that anytime, anyplace learning has been somewhat elusive. Sure, we have had organised distance education for almost two centuries, and mega-universities (i.e. large open universities with >100,000 students) are now globally established and universally respected. But although open learning courses can provide learners with an equivalent experience to campus based learning at home and at work, it's difficult to accept them as 'anytime anyplace'. Read more.
Studies have shown that digital resources -- video clips, audio,
simulations and images -- improve student learning in science and math,
and the emergence of online digital libraries has made more free
resources available than ever before. Yet few make it to student
classrooms or computers. A new research study at The Florida State
University looks to change this. Read more.
The Decision Theater makes the classroom and learning experience portable by providing an immersive, collaborative, and interactive decision lab. Dynamic conversations can take place in this learning environment. Visualization of complex concepts helps people “see differently” and make better-informed decisions. Read more.
"This is what I've been waiting for, for 24 years! An application that recognizes a college class as a social group, helps students create and live within that group, increases connection to that class/social group, and..." Read article.
Drexel University in Philadelphia, Utrecht University in The Netherlands, the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston, and the University of Bath have all gone public in the last several months with deployments of lecture capture systems within classrooms. Read article.
YouTube EDU is the new Educational version of YouTube which features
videos from various College and University partners on YouTube. This
website will be useful because currently YouTube is blocked at many
workplaces and schools so even if you do want to find something
education you can't.
Many educators and administrators have caught the ePortfolio bug. But
where does this bug lead them? It leads, seemingly, in many different
directions. And here's why: ePortfolios mean differing things to
different people.Read article.
In a paper recently published in Cognitive Science, Chi showed that
pairs of students can learn to solve physics problems by watching and
listening to another student (a tutee) being tutored. The new
Spencer-funded project will further investigate how the
observing-students can learn the scientific content from overhearing
the dialogues between the tutor and the tutee, a practice commonly used
by generations of people in various cultures to acquire skills or
trades through observation in apprenticeships. Read more.
