QUT Learning Design

...equipping students for the learning and assessing they will need to do after completing their course and the challenges they will face after graduation.

Also includes useful training info for Google docs: http://edutraining.googleapps.com/Training-Home/module-4-docs

This report describes emerging trends, key players and current initiatives in the emerging global Mobile Education and related e-Textbook Publishing markets. From http://www.gsmaembeddedmobile.com

Also has PDF handouts in Resources: http://facebookforeducators.org/handouts

Free online course.... 56,000 registered already!

Shows 2 useful graphics. See orginial Gartner info: http://www.gartner.com/technology/core/products/research/topics/emergingTrendsTechnologies.jsp

According to Google's announcement: "Native Client allows C and C++ code to be seamlessly executed inside the browser with security restrictions similar to JavaScript." The video gives examples of video editing apps where HTML, javascript and CSS could be used for the interface and native code execution for the video processing.

"I JUST can't see the point of doing research if no one is going to read it," says Simon Chapman, professor of public health and director of research at the University of Sydney.

Trinity College Foundation Studies at the University of Melbourne began an iPad pilot in August 2010. We launched the pilot with roughly 50 students and 20 staff exploring the use of technology in the classroom.

The E-Primer series: #1 - E-learning in context - An introduction to e-learning and the international experience; definitions of terms; a theory for e-learning; technologies; benefits #2 - E-education and faculty - Education theory and e-learning; the changing role of faculty; workload issues; quality #3 - Designing for e-learning - Instructional design; learning objects; constructing a hybrid course #4 - Online discourse - Synchronous and asynchronous communications; designing online discourse; online facilitation. #5 - Extending e-possibilities - Web 2.0; ePortfolios; virtual worlds; lifelong learning, etc A blog updating various elements of the E-Primers is being kept at http://e-ako.blogspot.com/

From the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies

At its start, Facebook was once exclusively for college students. But as it has grown in popularity and become adopted by everyone from grad students to grandmas, its usefulness has grown, too.

Also, check out in this article the "Digital Media Asia Wiki" created by students. https://wiki.smu.edu.sg/digitalmediaasia/Main_Page

Adobe Connect now has mobile access! 

Here are some of the popular Facebook applications used inside and outside the classroom to help students learn.