By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Mobile Learning - No Pedagogy Required!
Brent Schlenker, Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development, Aug 10, 2014
There's a bit of a discussion following this short post, not surprisingly. The core of the argument is this: "Pedagogy is defined (according to a quick Googling) as a method or practice of teaching. Mobile learning is not about teaching. More...
By Rony Zarom. Today’s college student owns an average of seven mobile devices and spends nearly four hours a day using a smart phone, according to a Marketing Charts study. More...
By . In case you haven’t noticed the recent changes already, it’s well worth pointing out that Google is making some interesting changes to their Google Drive service. More...
By . Six in 10 college students identified a “slow” campus network connection as a “top concern” in a recent survey commissioned by Ipswitch, a Massachusetts-based company that specializes in network management solutions. Half of student respondents said accessibility issues were their primary concern, while 36 percent pointed to security as their top concern. More...
By John Warner. Twitter is a great tool for eavesdropping.
While working on my course policies for the coming semester, I flipped over to Twitter – as I am wont to do 15 or 20 times per hour – and was brought short by this tweet from Jesse Stommel, an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Wisconsin. Read more...
By John Warner. In the wake of my previous post about rethinking my policies regarding phones and computers in the classroom, I spent a good chunk of yesterday rewriting them. I include them here in draft format. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Before I make the claim that online learning to higher ed is like digital books to publishing, I need to set some things straight. 
En juin dernier, 14 grandes entreprises du numérique ont montré leur engagement en faveur de l'emploi des personnes en situation de handicap en lançant le portail Handi-numérique. 
By Cathy Davidson. I wouldn't be a historian of the Internet had I not been trained as a historian of the book. Or I certainly would not have had the long historical perspective on this new tool and been able to see its possibilities, its dangers, and our responsibilities for teaching our students how to use it well. The alarmism and hysteria, though? That seemed all too familiar. When Nicholas Carr and others were sounding all the alarms about the evils that the Internet would cause--shallowness, distraction, loneliness, and the rest--it sounded to me pretty much like Thomas Jefferson's early assessment of the novel. Parallel to Carr's famous indictment of Google, Jefferson was sure novels made you stupid. More...
By . “Legacy,” in these exchanges, is shorthand for a technological solution that isn’t only outdated, but also inefficient, ineffective, and costly to maintain. Campus IT plans, in fact, often revolve around the best way to rid a school of legacy systems that were once the only option, but now stand in the way of ed-tech progress. More...
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