Digital Myopia – Online education as information pushing
My email today included a TOC alert for the Journal of Interactive Learning Research 16(4). There was more than one article that looked interesting enough...
More new tools online
The rate at which new tools, mostly online and free, are appearing seems to have ramped up recently. I’ve scarcely had time to register their...
$100 laptop is coming
An article in Macworld confirms it – MIT to launch $100 laptop prototype in November. This project has been talked about fairly widely over the...
AUC 2005
Report on attendance at AUC 2005 – the Apple University Consortium Academic and Developer Conference held at Wrest Point, Hobart, 25 – 28 September <http://auc.uow.edu.au/index2.html?conf/aucconf.html~mainFrame>...
Blogging and learning
Will Richardson at Weblogg-ed – The Read/Write Web in the Classroom has posted a reflection in which he brings together recent posts by George Siemens...
Is Multiple-Column Online Text Better? It Depends on how you read the research!
From the Oops, my slip is showing department: Albert Ip over at Random Walk in E-Learning is not allowing comments and does not seem to...
Podcast Theory Gap
E-Learning Queen writes about the Podcast Theory Gap: Online learners seem to prefer using audio and web-based information in ways that counter what researchers recommend....
Google-matic Courseware
Scott Sorley speculates about the potential for what he dubs Google-matic Courseware – Real Time Content: I have been busy over the last week testing...
mLearning
“m” (for mobile) has been appended to “learning” in various contexts over the past year or so. It has been a little “out there” but...
Chance encounters
One of the quirks of publishing course materials through the official channels of DeC (Distance and e-Learning Centre) at USQ has been that materials are...