This December at ELKS (the community of expertise which I manage for the UN’s Global Alliance for ICT in Development initiative) we’ve adapted a December tradition to produce an “Advent of technology” Calendar – with a resource, tool or tip about e-learning for every day of December. There are 30
Some interesting social software for learning: Ectohttp://www.ectolearning.com/Their blurb: “Ecto is a hosted, open networked Personal Learning Environment. Use Ecto to transform learning into an interactive, collaborative, and student centered activity. Ecto is the only learning management system built from the ground up on the principles and architecture of social software.”
At a conference I attended recently, there was much discussion about what “embedding” means in the context of e-learning in Higher Education. I was thinking maybe we should be talking about “Mbedding” because possibly the whole point is to lose the “e”… Technology should be just one of the tools
According to this story on the BBC today, Google is expanding its empire into universities – with entire campus e-mail networks switching over to using Google’s e-mail service. Apparently Trinity College Dublin has switched over entirely to Google’s e-mail. The new Google-based e-mail addresses (which can still be applied to
Curt Bonk – a larger-than-life e-learning expert from the University of Indiana – has posted “A Quick 30 Writing Tips for the Start of an Academic Career” on his blog athttp://travelinedman.blogspot.com/ He’s also briefly mentioned the Learning Futures conference at Leicester, and discusses Ten Observations Related to E-Learning in the