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Physical education is recently supposed an important issue in our daily affairs. Physical education should be started from childhood period.

Physical education is recently supposed an important issue in our daily affairs. Physical education should be started from childhood period.

Neuroscience has shown that our brains are plastic and that education, gaming and the use of technology can change our brains' connectivity, function and structure. (1, 2) But learning is more than just biology - it is affected by our learning environment and the people with whom and from whom we learn. So how do you take what neuroscience reveals about the plastic, learning brain and combine it with educational research, expertise and common sense? Klevar, in association with Flinders University, are offering you the chance to explore this with Dr Paul Howard-Jones of the University of Bristol, researcher and author of "Introducing Neuroeducational Research: Neuroscience, Education and the Brain from Contexts to Practice".

Interesting article about the changes brought about by online education.

"Technology-based forces of "disruptive innovation" are gathering around public education and will overhaul the way K-12 students learn-with potentially dramatic consequences for established public schools, according to an upcoming book that draws parallels to disruptions in other industries." - quote directly from article

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The long-awaited day is finally here: Moodle 2.0 has officially been released in a production-ready version. ith better e-portfolio support, community hubs where educators can share courses, centralised databases for file storage, new features to explore, major improvements on existing features - will everyone be ditching 1.9x faster than you can say Moodle? Errr, not quite THAT fast.

from twitter colleague @theother66; learn to use moodle

provides over 20,000 learning materials categorised into seven main areas: Arts, Business, Education, Humanities, Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology\n, Social Sciences.

Another point that came up in the session was that it is much easier to start with open-source software or platforms rather than try to transition from commercial software to its open-source equivalent. Orwin explained that implementing Moodle into his district was much easier than transitioning from Microsoft Office to Open Office, since teachers were already familiar with Microsoft Office and then had to adjust to the differences in Open Office. That transition was almost four years in the making, he said. On average, it takes about three years before educators begin to truly understand the benefits of moving to open-source software, said Hargadon.

Educationsbd.com is one of the most popular education related sites. We publish current daily education related news, useful article and many more information.

Connectivism and Connective Knowledge is a twelve week course that will explore the concepts of connectivism and connective knowledge and explore their application as a framework for theories of teaching and learning. It will outline a connectivist understanding of educational systems of the future.

This free resource allows for creation of comics and you do not need artistic ability. There is a pay educational resource also.

Leo set me the challenge of comparing Book and Lesson and I've done so on our training site. First, I created a Lesson on Creative Commons licensing. Then I created a Book with the content and two quizzes for the assessment. I hope it will be self-evident why I felt two quizzes were needed, if not - please ask in the comments below this post. Visit http://training.brightcookie.com and log in as username with the password Bc followed directly by our toll-free phone number.

Hosted by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework), this FREE three day national online conference, will be held on Wednesday 8th, Thursday 9th and Friday 10th June 2011. The conference will showcase e-learning and e-technology through a series of web-conferencing presentations and short and snapy lunch-time EXPO sessions. Participants will hear how vocational education and training (VET) practitioners, training providers and businesses are using e-learning pedagogy, e-tools and e-technologies to develop and deliver new and flexible training options.

Video Tutorials for Moodle, general and specific topics