Mobile learning is not pervasive in higher education and yet its potential is enormous. This paper describes a project to instigate mobile learning in a School of Education using a wholeof- school approach to technological literacy and professional learning among academic staff.
The ability to access information and communication technologies (ICTs), particularly via the Internet and mobile phones, is increasingly vital to full participation in economic, social, and political life.
AlphaPlus provides training, services, tools and resources to adult literacy agencies and educators in Ontario and Canada, serving adult learners in Deaf, Native, Francophone and Anglophone literacy streams. We are funded provincially by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. Our mission is to increase adult literacy skills through the use of digital technologies by supporting educators and stakeholders with research, tools and training.
THERE is a concept in telecommunications called "the last mile," that part of any phone system that is the most difficult to connect - the part that goes from the main lines into people's homes. Prem Kalra, the director of the new Indian Institute of Technology in Rajasthan, one of the elite M.I.T.'s of India, has dedicated his school to overcoming a different challenge: connecting "the last person."
The Online Therapy Institute provides a range of services including counselling in virtual worlds and online, web site templates for private therapists to be able to conduct e-counselling and more. Technology is becoming part of the profession. Preparing our learners to use it is vital to their careers.
The authors present a study that used a conceptual framework of adult learning and differentiated karning styles with graduate students in a counselor education classroom. Students in a hybrid course had higher midterm, group proposal, and posttest scores than did students in a face-to-face course taught by the same professor.
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Wikis in education
12 April, 2012 | Interactive web services at the turn of the 21st century spawned a number of new alluring ways to use online services writes Gerry White in DERN.
By analysing topics of interest and concern to Australians the researchers have been able to build a 'network map' [of Twitter users] showing the connections between different issues and areas. "Just as newspapers have circulation reports and TV has its ratings, it is important to understand the role which new media are playing in our society," they say.