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Earthducation project of the U of Mn, evolved from nearly 10 years of delivering Adventure Learning projects to tens of millions of students and teachers around the globe. As we embarked upon our programs and collaborated with diverse cultures in locations ranging from the Arctic to the South Africa, it became evident that there were exhilarating narratives and experiences, large and small, that needed a worldwide outlet and global community.

For organizations with multiple thousands of knowledge workers and complex learning needs, Open Mentoring® offers a way to identify and close skill gaps across your entire enterprise. A scalable and cost-effective SaaS solution, Open Mentoring® brings positive business impacts to areas such as employee engagement, employee retention, and employee productivity.

Sophia is a content management platform that supports social teaching, has been piloted at college level: Some people describe Sophia as a mash up of Wikipedia, YouTube, and Facebook - focused solely on teaching and learning. It's where you can teach what you know and learn what you don't. Whether you're a high school student, college student, teacher, professor, tutor or parent, Sophia makes knowledge easier to share, easier to find, and easier to organize. And it's free.

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Article on Information Overload and Strategies for Coping. Includes new and sophisticated tools that we can add to our toolbox to deal with the resulting information overload.

Ninety-seven percent of students enter college with cell phones, yet few universities leverage this ubiquity for teaching and university life. Colleges have two choices: continue to treat mobile devices as a nuisance, or embrace them by leveraging their mobile learning capabilities. ACU's expanded view connects academic, social, and infrastructural m-learning applications. View Quicktime file (small) of Rankin, Saltsman, Dickson "A Campus-Wide Approach for Mobile Learning with iPhones"

The personal learning network for educators

Broadcast updates to parents and students to any student on any device, free

Sharing your screen instantly with up to 250 computers. Collaborate, meet, train, demo or show-off. Free version: screen sharing, chat, file transfer, remote control with one user

Connected Summit 2009 - Podcasts and Presentations Collection of downloadable videos and pdf files from all of the keynotes, spotlights, and class tracks at the ACU Connected Summit, February 2009 Mobile Collaboration: Redefining the Classroom-- Bill Rankin and Kyle Dickson, EDUCAUSE ELI Meetings 2010 Campus-Wide Approach for Mobile Learning with iPhones--Bill Rankin, Kyle Dickson, and George Saltsman, EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2008 ACU Connected: the iPhoneand handheld learning--Bill Rankin and Kyle Dickson

Kaltura Community Edition is a free, open-source, on-premise Video Platform, developed through the combined efforts of Kaltura and the community. The platform enables video management, publishing, syndication and monetization, as well as providing a robust framework for managing rich-media applications, and developing a variety of online workflows for video. The latest version of the Community Edition also includes enterprise level administration and monitoring tools. Kaltura Community Edition is ideal for universities that want to manage video in conjunction with their LMS or a campus wide video portal.

sign language authoring tool that uses SigningAvatar® animated characters that sign. Easily create curriculum-specific, platform independent content with no animation experience needed! The characters sign your content and make it accessible to your students or anyone who could benefit from sign language.

Third-year undergraduate nursing students and first-year master's entry clinical nursing students received an iPod Touch. The device provides students with mobile applications that give them information they'll need in the classroom and at the bedside, as well as an app to help them prepare for the nursing board examination.   The apps include:   Nursing Central Provides everything the nurse needs - nursing assessment, nursing diagnoses and nursing procedures. It includes the Davis Drug Guide, lab and diagnostic tests, a diseases and disorders reference, and Taber's Medical Dictionary. There is also a Medline Journal citation and study-abstract explorer.   Medical Spanish Translates English questions and phrases into Spanish to support Spanish-speaking patients. With Hispanics now constituting nearly half the population in Southern California, having the ability to communicate successfully with patients is critical to delivering the proper care. The app includes more than 3,000 phrases.   NCLEX Review This comprehensive review is what students study before taking the California Nursing Board Examination to become licensed as registered nurses.

Lowering the barriers of entry to web programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months to develop can be produced in a matter of days.

how should you structure an effective scenario based question?

A small private college in New York's Adirondack Mountains has seen the number of returning students rise by 5 percent over the previous year through several "student success" initiatives, including the use of applications from Starfish Retention Solutions

Can anyone recommend a good quality, inexpensive, wireless microphone that can be used to capture the audio portion of their talk?

significant 'mobile learning' projects currently underway in the UK and tries to draw out their significance specifically for the education community.The introduction provides a working definition of mobile learning and then tries to identify the meaning and the limitations of the projects described specifically for a readership working in education.

Evernote Peek is a way to study notes using the iPad 2 smart cover.

A new method of teaching is turning the traditional classroom on its head.