The Future of the Internet IV | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project - 0 views
2010 Horizon Report » Technologies to Watch - 0 views
-
The near-term horizon assumes the likelihood of entry into the mainstream for institutions within the next twelve months; the mid-term horizon, within two to three years; and the far-term, within four to five years. It should be noted that the Horizon Report is not a predictive tool. It is meant, rather, to highlight emerging technologies with considerable potential for our focus areas of teaching, learning, and creative inquiry.
-
virtually all higher education students carry some form of mobile device, and the cellular network that supports their connectivity continues to grow. An increasing number of faculty and instructional technology staff are experimenting with the possibilities for collaboration and communication offered by mobile computing. Devices from smart phones to netbooks are portable tools for productivity, learning, and communication, offering an increasing range of activities fully supported by applications designed especially for mobiles.
-
Far more than a collection of free online course materials, the open content movement is a response to the rising costs of education, the desire for access to learning in areas where such access is difficult, and an expression of student choice about when and how to learn.
- ...4 more annotations...
2010 Horizon Report » Electronic Books - 0 views
-
Readers of electronic books may be reading more, as well. Kindle owners, according to Amazon, buy three times as many books as they did before they had Kindles; Sony reports that Reader owners download about eight books per month ⎯ as compared to fewer than seven books per year purchased by the average American book buyer in 2008, according to a New York Times article.
-
The convenience of having an entire library of books, magazines, and newspapers — each remembering exactly where you left off the last time you looked at them — and all in a single, small device is one of the most compelling aspects driving electronic reader sales.
-
a larger format version of the device expressly built for academic texts, newspapers, and journals, is being piloted at Arizona State University, Ball State University, Case Western Reserve University, Pace University, Princeton, Reed College, Syracuse University, and the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Northwest Missouri State University and Penn State have embarked on pilots using the Sony Reader. Johns Hopkins is piloting the enTourage eDGe, which combines the functions of an e-reader, a netbook, a notepad, and an audio/video recorder and player in one handheld device.
- ...1 more annotation...
2010 Horizon Report » Critical Challenges - 0 views
-
In a 2007 report, the American Association of Colleges and Universities recommended strongly that emerging technologies be employed by students in order for them to gain experience in “research, experimentation, problem-based learning, and other forms of creative work,” particularly in their chosen fields of study.
-
New scholarly forms of authoring, publishing, and researching continue to emerge but appropriate metrics for evaluating them increasingly and far too often lag behind. Citation-based metrics, to pick one example, are hard to apply to research based in social media. New forms of peer review and approval, such as reader ratings, inclusion in and mention by influential blogs, tagging, incoming links, and retweeting, are arising from the natural actions of the global community of educators, with increasingly relevant and interesting results. These forms of scholarly corroboration are not yet well understood by mainstream faculty and academic decision makers, creating a gap between what is possible and what is acceptable.
-
despite the widespread agreement on its importance, training in digital literacy skills and techniques is rare in teacher education programs. In higher education, formal training is virtually non-existent.
- ...1 more annotation...
Social Media in Africa, Part 1 - 1 views
-
undergoing a connectivity revolution
-
Africa
-
Part One of this series looks at social media contributions from Africans, Part Two looks at mobile and connectivity innovations and Part Three looks at how local Governments, NGOs and nonprofits are being affected.
- ...8 more annotations...
2010 Horizon Report: K-12 Edition | NMC - 0 views
2011 Horizon Report | NMC - 0 views
Students Can't Handle Technology, Says Report | Technology | Epoch Times - 0 views
eSN Special Report: Blended learning on the rise | Expanding Students Learning Opportun... - 0 views
One Year or Less: Electronic Books « 2011 Horizon Report - 0 views
-
The content of electronic books and the social activities they enable, rather than the device used to access them, are the keys to their popularity;
Critical Challenges « 2011 Horizon Report - 0 views
-
reconciling new forms of scholarly activity with old standards continues to be difficult, creating tension and raising questions as to where faculty energy is best directed.
-
Economic pressures and new models of education are presenting unprecedented competition to traditional models of the university
-
There is a greater need than ever for effective tools and filters for finding, interpreting, organizing, and retrieving the data that is important to us.
Nielsen: Social Media Report - 0 views
Fifty Ways to Leave Your Term Paper/Book Report & Tell Your Story « NeverEndi... - 0 views
ACU Mobile-Learning Report 2010-11 - 0 views
‹ Previous
21 - 40 of 80
Next ›
Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page