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Sheri Oberman

No Teaching Expertise Reqd: Pharmaceutical Company outsources its Knowledge Assessment to a Call Centre and Marketing Org - 4 views

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    Spilling teaching functions, namely knowledge assessment, outside the bounds of an educational institution or even an education outsourcer, NO TEACHER/TEACHING QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY for the developer or the call simulation representatives.
John Evans

The Perfect Storm for Classroom Technology Could Arrive in 2012 « The Xplanation - 5 views

  • The Perfect Storm for Classroom Technology With Google, Apple, and Amazon all lining up in the to own a piece of the tablet market, it’s beginning to look like the perfect storm for classroom technology could hit in 2012. Tablets alone should be in the possession of at least 20% of incoming college freshmen, and a big majority will own smartphones. This adds up to a big shift in learning from a centripetal, aggregation model towards one that is centrifugal and distributed. That means evolving pedagogy, new tools, and new requirements for content consumption.
Phil Taylor

Why Google+ Could be a Game-Changer in Higher Education - Century College Marketing Program Blog - 4 views

  • instructors have blasted Facebook (and rightfully so) for its poor privacy protections.
  • Google+ allows a person to place all of their contacts into Circles, allowing a user to control with great precision who among their contacts will have access to which bits of shared content.
John Evans

Professors experiment with Twitter as teaching tool - JSOnline - 0 views

  • Live tweeting
  • "Live tweeting is not easy," Ekechai said, but "they capture the content of the lectures very, very well." Twitter also allows faculty members to post links to what they're reading. Students who "follow" a professor's tweets can get a look at the news stories that help inform their professor's lectures or connect with the experts their teachers are following.
  • Essential to field Ekechai and Menck see it as their responsibility to teach students about Twitter because social media knowledge is becoming essential to their future fields - communications, advertising, public relations and marketing.
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  • Twitter is helping these professors build community in their classes in a way that appeals to some members of a Facebook-addicted generation. The phenomenon is certainly not ubiquitous, and some professors have found Twitter doesn't do anything for them in the academic realm.
  • But others, particularly those who teach in communications fields, are finding that Twitter and other social media are key devices for students and faculty to include in their professional toolbox.
John Evans

VoiceThread - Digital Library - 0 views

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    The Digital Library is a database of articles about successful VoiceThread projects. Our hope is to create a resource that offers guidance and inspiration for people undertaking new projects
Phil Taylor

Will the iPad dominate education? - Somerville Group, Peter Kazacos, Network Neighborhood, iPad, Hanspeter Eiselt, Gartner, education, Apple, Anittel - ARN - 2 views

  • the media tablet can deliver if schools build them into a larger ecosystem emerging around digital textbooks," Gartner analyst, C.G. Lee, noted in the report Market Insight: Media Tablets to Spur Computer-Aided Curriculums in Schools in Asia-Pacific.
Phil Taylor

Pearson and Google Jump Into Learning Management With a New, Free System - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 10 views

  • Today Pearson, the publishing and learning technology group, has teamed up with the software giant Google to launch OpenClass, a free LMS
  • It enters a market that has been dominated by costly institution-anchored services like Blackboard, and open-source but labor-intensive systems like Moodle.
John Evans

Layout Cheat Sheet for Infographics : Visual arrangement tips - 4 views

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    "[This is part of the Infographic Design Series. Check out the other posts!] Good visual arrangement for infographics is putting together graphic and visual elements in a manner that draws your reader's attention. The key to achieving simple, elegant and attractive content are ample whitespace and a well arranged layout. What is whitespace? White space is as its name defined-space that is unmarked in a piece of infographic or visual representation. It could be margins, padding or the space between columns, text and icons and design elements. Whitespace matters to create visually engaging content A page crammed full of text and images will appear busy. This makes the content difficult to read. It makes you unable to focus on the important stuff too. On the other hand, too much of white space can make your page look incomplete. It is always crucial to remember visually engaging content is usually clean and simple. Here's an example of what I mean. whitespace-matters Understanding common infographics layouts help ease visual arrangement Infographic layouts refer to the arrangement of your visual elements and your content. When you begin working on a piece of infographic, you should have a story to tell hence, you will need to select a layout that best suits your story. Using the right layout will ensure good readability and convey your message well. We have put together a cheat sheet for your quick reference to the right arrangement to use, here are six common ones you can quickly work with. Infographic Layout Cheat Sheet Useful Bait: Works well with most types of data. Rather than focusing on design, it works more for practicality, thus making it easy to read. For instance, a reference sheet where you can print it out and use it over and over again. If your content has many subtopics to a main subject, this layout enables you to segregate them into clean chunks that are easy to consume. Versus/Comparison: This layout is typically split vertically to
alxa robert

Current Issue Placing Curbs on Unsolicited Commercial Communications - 0 views

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    Unsolicited marketing related calls are a major nuisance and every telecom user has the right to have freedom from such calls. Dr Shefali S Dash, Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India IPS Sethi, Senior Technical Director, National…
alxa robert

News | eGov Magazine - 0 views

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    The eGov magazine enjoys the distinction of being Asia's first magazine on e-Governance. Founded in 2005, the monthly magazine is published in both print and online formats, and is focussed exclusively on the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for bringing efficiency, accountability and transparency to various citizen and business related initiatives of the government. No other magazine in Asia offers readers such in-depth coverage of new e-Governance models. We cover all aspects of e-Governance - from new technological advances in ICT to the ways in which common citizens benefit when their interactions with government departments are through digital interfaces and the myriad issues involved in implementation of e-Governance initiatives.
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    The eGov magazine enjoys the distinction of being Asia's first magazine on e-Governance. Founded in 2005, the monthly magazine is published in both print and online formats, and is focussed exclusively on the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for bringing efficiency, accountability and transparency to various citizen and business related initiatives of the government. No other magazine in Asia offers readers such in-depth coverage of new e-Governance models. We cover all aspects of e-Governance - from new technological advances in ICT to the ways in which common citizens benefit when their interactions with government departments are through digital interfaces and the myriad issues involved in implementation of e-Governance initiatives. The eGov magazine's biggest advantage is its ability to carry the views of all the stakeholders in e-Governance domain - policy makers, experts, industry leaders, administrators and the academia. Our experienced team of editors, researchers, and marketers take a 360-degree approach for creating content - breaking news, feature articles and interviews - that can keep our steadily growing global audience well informed on issues of e-Governance. The who's who in the industry disseminate their ideas and innovations through the pages of our magazine.
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