Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Using computers and other learning technology too often can be detrimental to student performance, OECD says. More...
2 Universities Turn to the Cloud for Their LMS
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 2 Universities Turn to the Cloud for Their LMS
Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology, 2015/10/15
My first experience with Blackboard many years ago involved writing a complete ethics course on the hosted platform. The ethics course is long since lost, sadly. And Blackboard became an application universities installed on their own servers. More...
Crypto 2.0 and DAWCs: Dawn of Decentralized Autonomous Workers Councils
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Crypto 2.0 and DAWCs: Dawn of Decentralized Autonomous Workers Councils.
Rob Myers, Humanity+, 2015/10/14
This is related to the case of Colony, which I posted about earlier this week. Colony is one instance of whaat this article calls 'decentralized autonomous workers councils'. More...
Google wants to speed up the mobile web with AMP project
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Google wants to speed up the mobile web with AMP project
Cassandra Khaw, Ars Technica, 2015/10/09
I greet this development with cautious optimism. In a bid to respond to services like Facebook's 'instant articles' Google and Twitter are releasing an open framework that acceperates web and (especially) mobile delivery of articles. More...
itunesU platform
La piattaforma iTunesU è uno strumento di condivisione di contenuti prodotti da insegnanti, docenti et alter. Nella miriade di opportunità proposte dagli strumenti di rete, essa appare abbastanza flessibile e partecipativa. More...
A software application to enhance the learner progress tracking
UNIR Research’s project A4Learning (http://bit.ly/A4LearningEN), became the first innovation and knowledge transfer project at the institution. The software application has been developed under the Research Support Strategy funded by UNIR Research (http://research.unir.net). More...
The Twelve Apps of Christmas
The course was intended to reach HE academics and educators, to promote engagement with free mobile apps which can be used in the classroom. A range of apps would be introduced, with participants learning how to use them and opening a dialogue about their value in education. More...
Understanding New Learners and Reconsidering New Learning Pathways
The advent and development of Web 2.0 technologies, with their characteristic openness, connectivity, participation in the production of knowledge, has opened new doors to educators in search for new ways to improve student learning and performance in an increasingly dynamic and diverse world. More...
Developing apps in the classroom
The practice was about developing small apps using the MIT App Inventor. Started with demonstration and testing of the examples from the official site. And then the developing and sharing the examples. With interesting dynamic activities and collaboration. More...
BYOD into the classroom: A new challenge for teachers
In recent years, more and more students have been attending lectures with laptops and other mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones in hand. More...