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Higher education faces a challenge. It may not now it yet, but it does. And the challenge is this - when learners have been accustomed to very facilitative, usable, personalisable and adaptive tools both for learning and socialising, why will they accept standardised, unintuitive, clumsy and out of date tools in formal education they are paying for? It won't be a dramatic revolution (students accept lower physical accommodation standards when they leave home for university after all), but instead there will be a quiet migration. The monolithic LMSs will be deserted, digital tumbleweed blowing down their forums. Students will abandon these in favour of their tools, the back channel will grow and it will be constituted from content and communication technologies that don't require a training course to understand and that come with a ready made community. This may seem like just a technological issue, but it runs deeper than this.

I've been reflecting lately on the claims of Bauerlein in The dumbest generation. Completing his book has come parallel with exposure to some additional materials:

Os dejo el slideshow correspondiente a la presentación realizada por Stephen Downes (National Research Council Canada) en la Primera Conferencia Internacional del Conocimiento y la Tecnología libres - Educación por una sociedad de la información libre en

You can search for interactive timelines on different topics (history, films, science, etc.) or even better, you can create your own timeline about your life or an event and add pictures and text. This is great for teaching! Students could create their timelines and share it with each other. They can practise all four skills, grammar (e. g. past tense), summarising a story, events, etc. You can embed it on your web site or blog and also create feeds (Twitter, blog, etc.).

with the web 2.0 revolution in education, creating online visually motivating and attractive presentations has become an indispensable skill of 21st century education.if you still depend just on PowerPoint to create your presentation, then this post is highly recommended for you.In this regard,I've selected the best free friendly online presentation tools teachers and students alike can use in the classroom.

Web-based education for school and home. - Anybody tried this?

Segunda parte del directorio de soluciones gratuitas a diversas necesidades en la red. Está mucho más centrada en educación y en mi opinión es algo menos acertada que la primera.