By Joshua Kim. We need a word to describe the feeling of fear that is induced by clicking on the “Purchase Now” button when making an online flight reservation for travel to a work related conference. Read more...
6 avril 2015
6 avril 2015
iPads, Hotels, and Learning
By Joshua Kim. Recently, I stayed at a Hilton hotel that had replaced the big paper information notebook you find in the room with an iPad. All the directions as to where to find the exercise facility, the room service menu, the key phone numbers and directions, the instructions on how to check out, and the listing of all the hotels amenities and local sites had gone digital. Read more...
6 avril 2015
Open Thread Wednesday: the Cloud
By Erin E. Templeton. The Cloud is where it’s at. This is probably not news to anyone who reads ProfHacker. We’ve talked about cloud storage for years: Dropbox, Spider Oak, Google Drive, and Copy. There are also other options like Apple’s iCloud and Microsoft’s OneDrive. More...
5 avril 2015
Keeping Track of People with Status
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. It’s been almost a year since my family moved, meaning that my husband now has an hour commute to and from work. He was getting tired of me texting him asking if he had left yet or where he was on his route home. He found the app Status that automated the process of letting me know (and vice versa) where he was or what he was doing. More...
31 mars 2015
Making the Connection
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Making the Connection
Kim Cofino, always learning, 2015/03/24
Kim Cofino shares elements of her current keynote at the ECIS technology conference in Munich. "When we learn with technology the way we live with technology, the classroom can be just as relevant and engaging as our everyday digital interactions," she argues. More...
30 mars 2015
Plurality and complementarity of approaches in Design & Technology Education
29ème colloque international PATT
7 Avril 2015 - 10 Avril 2015
Marseille
ESPE d'Aix-Marseille
Organisateurs: L'ESPE d'Aix-Marseille et le laboratoire de recherche en éducation ADEF-Gestepro de l'université Aix-Marseille
Informations:
29th PATT conference in Marseille (France) 7-10 April 2015 (link is external)Inscription tardive encore possible
7-10 april 2015, is hosted by the École Supérieure du Professorat et de l'Éducation (ESPE), Aix-Marseille University – and the laboratory of research in education “Apprentissage, Didactique, Évaluation, Formation (ADEF-Gestepro team), Aix-Marseille University. PATT conference will as usual focus on school design and technology education and teacher education. Our ambition is to arrange common seminar and social events. You will find important information about PATT 29 conference under the links to the right.
Jacques Ginestié ; Marjolaine Chatoney
ESPE ; Gestepro team, ADEF
Aix-Marseille Université ; Aix-Marseille Université
Conference venue: Palais du pharo
Conference theme: Plurality and complementarity of approaches in Design & Technology Education
Conference e-mail: espe-recherche-patt@univ-amu.fr. Voir l'article...
29 mars 2015
How Much Do College Students Actually Pay For Textbooks?
By Phil Hill. With all of the talk about the unreasonably high price of college textbooks, the unfulfilled potential of open educational resources (OER), and student difficulty in paying for course materials, it is surprising how little is understood about student textbook expenses. The following two quotes illustrate the most common problem. More...
29 mars 2015
Taking the Tech Track
By Arlene Weintraub. Across fields, grad programs are adding training in technology.
Cornell Tech students attend a class called Studio at the Cornell Tech temporary campus located in the Google building in Manhattan. More...
29 mars 2015
The Streaming March Madness Class Button
By Joshua Kim. I had 3 reaction when I saw the "Class" button on the streaming March Madness site.
This button quickly switches the streaming basketball game to a fake learning management system (LMS). The Class button is now one of the options for the “Boss Button” - with other options being “Work” (a pretend PowerPoint) and “Home” (a fake search box). Read more...
29 mars 2015
Technology sweeping universities opens opportunities
By Gilbert Nganga. A technology wave is sweeping Kenyan higher education, changing the ways universities are run. Since mid-February more higher education institutions and groups supporting the sector have tapped technology to ease operations and open new competitive frontiers. More...
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