This article discusses the role of the technologies that have been utilized to advance distance teaching and learning by the National Distance Education University (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia -- UNED) of Spain. More...

The rapid rate of technological change and the rapidly growing number of institutions now embarking on Internet-based delivery means that more institutions are involved in distance education than at any other time in history. More...

Use of mobile technology are widespread, particularly among the younger generation. There is a huge potential for utilizing such technology, particularly in lecture sessions with large number of students, serving as an interaction tool between the students and lecturer. The challenge is to identify adoption factors to ensure effective adoption of the technology to promote interactivity between students and lecturer in the classroom. This paper aims to examine factors supporting use of mobile wireless technology during lectures to promote interactivity between students and lecturers in Malaysia’s higher education institutions. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web.  Mapping Our Pangea
Robert Schuetz, Nocking The Arrow, 2016/02/15

Metaphors are fraught with the risk of misunderstanding, but this one is among the more imaginative I've seen recently, and the risk is far outweighed by the reward of a new way of thinking about the way we use digital technologies More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. All Hail The Algorithm
David J McGee, Metafilter, 2016/02/12

The think that made Twitter the most democratic of the social media platforms was that it didn't pick winners. You read what you were subscribed to, in the order it was sent. No more. More...

A lot of schools are starting to implement smart technologies and the first and most important question they consider is what devices to choose in order to succeed. However, this is totally wrong. More...

The paper, “Has research on collaborative learning technologies addressed massiveness? : A Literature Review” by Kalpani Manathunga and Davinia Hernandez-Leo has been published in the Journal of. More...

Creo que poder ayudar a los demás es una grandísima oportunidad de ser mejor persona y valorarnos mucho más. Esta sería la forma más egoista de que ayudar saliera rentable al que la. More...