Teaching for Understanding - 3 views
Reports & Publications - iNACOL - 0 views
iNACOL National Standards - iNACOL - 0 views
Looking to the Future: Higher Education in the Metaverse (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 1 views
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"Virtual worlds technology, like the Internet in general, is changing the way we access and experience information and the way we can access and connect with each other. Few college/university presidents or CIOs are currently prioritizing the exploration of virtual worlds, but it seems safe to predict that within the next three to five years, a higher education institution without a virtual worlds presence will be like an institution without a web presence today."
Higher Education as Virtual Conversation (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views
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"Educators and educational institutions need to understand that virtual worlds, like other social media, are here to stay and that these exciting forms of media are not a threat to formal education. The genuine conversation and participation that virtual worlds encourage is a step toward more authentic learning for all students."
Dewey Goes Online: Virtual Teaming on Campus (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views
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"# John Dewey's ideas on progressive education have become newly relevant with the advent of online learning. # Collaborative online learning is an important example of Dewey's intellectual legacy. # Virtual teams move instructors off center stage while increasing their students' - and their own - engagement. # Most campuses already have all the software required to support virtual teamwork."
Horton Hears a Tweet (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views
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"# Learning takes place in a social context, and encouraging student-student and student-faculty contact and interaction gets at the heart of student engagement in online-education settings. # Because of their fundamental reliance on social participation and contribution, Web 2.0 tools, specifically social-networking tools, have great potential for enhancing the social context in support of learning, especially in online education. # Twitter used as an instructional tool can add value to online and face-to-face university courses that far outweighs its potential drawbacks."
Leveraging the Interplay Between a Grassroots Pen-Based Computing Pilot and an Institut... - 0 views
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"# A decade-long case study involving mobile and pen computing at DePauw University demonstrates the synergy possible from simultaneously supporting grassroots initiatives and institutional programs. # While running the two projects in parallel, DePauw faculty and IT staff began considering how to apply lessons learned from each program to the other to increase flexibility and impact in teaching and learning. # Presentations on effective use of tablet PCs in the classroom, which were first explored in a pilot project as an alternative to fixed location pen-based computers, encouraged more instructors to begin using them. # The clear benefits of instructor and student use of tablet PCs led to adoption of a tablet PC option as part of the institutional laptop initiative."
Ning and Writing to Learn (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views
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"# Writing effectively is academically and professionally crucial for students, and helping them attain that skill is a major goal for writing instruction. # The social networking site Ning offers a variety of Web 2.0 tools that can help students learn to write as well as write to learn. # A small pilot in a University of Connecticut writing course demonstrated Ning's effectiveness in helping students write to learn."
Social Media & Mobile Internet Use Among Teens and Young Adults - Pew Research Center - 0 views
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Since 2006, blogging has fallen among teens and young adults while simultaneously rising among older adults. As the tools and technology embedded in social networking websites change, and use of the sites continues to grow, youth may be exchanging 'macro-blogging' for micro-blogging with status updates.
http://oyc.yale.edu/ - 0 views
Twitterfountain.com - 2 views
100 Incredible & Educational Virtual Tours You Don't Want to Miss | Online Universities - 1 views
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