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Mobile Learning Academy: learn how to create a mobile learning concept using mobile storytelling tools

very basic but easy to set up collaborative learning environment

Interesting Article when looking at how to create common places that appeal to both sides of the brain. It got me thinking about how to appeal to different learning styles in the education arena. Additionally, It got me thinking about how i always envied left brained thinkers rather then embraced the fact that I'm really a Righty. Thank God for freedom! Right Brain People Unite!

I thought I'd post a few of the MOOC's that are getting notice now. I also just saw Candice's diigo bookmark which discussion some of them.

I heard this on NPR as I was driving and couldn't help but think of this week's reading from Smart Mobs. The text discusses the role that cooperation plays in human society, that if we were designed to spread out genes without regard to others, that cooperation would have been "bred out" generations ago. This story shows that cooperation, or at least social interaction based on valuing the needs and goals of others, does seem to be uniquely human. Networked collaboration isn't the result of technology - it's the result of basic humanity.

Gephi 0.8.1-beta has been released! Discover a new Timeline, dynamic ranking and weighted community detection. Learn More " Applications Exploratory Data Analysis: intuition-oriented analysis by networks manipulations in real time. Link Analysis: revealing the underlying structures of associations between objects, in particular in scale-free networks.

here's an edu startup that contains 14 MOOCs, massive open online courses. It's one of the first that got set up by Stanford University. One popular free course in computer science had 94,000 students when it ran the first time. Not all of them continued or finished but recenty, Colorado University announced that its global online campus would accept transfer credits towards a bachelor's degree if the students could pass a proctored final exam. Welcome to the crowdsourced future of higher education.

The University of the People may actually be the very first edu MOOC in higher ed. Not certain but it has been developing for 4 years - I remember listening to podcasts of the founder talking at Harvard, MIT and Stanford. Even then, the concept of a massive open course was intriguing