Mestrado Pedagogia do E-Learning

“We are now reaching people all around the world that, without iTunes U, we never would have touched,” said its vice-chancellor, Martin Bean, formerly the general manager of Microsoft’s education products group

Mr. Bean looks at iTunes U and YouTube as free marketing — an opportunity to take “all those active inquiries and those leisure learners and expose them to who we are as a university.

Other universities say that limited resources, copyright concerns or the reluctance of old-fashioned professors are keeping them from recording and uploading lectures.

The courage comes from taking the next leap of faith. Universities no longer define themselves by their content but the overall experience: the concept, the student support, the tutoring and mentoring, the teaching and learning they get and the quality of the assessment.”

his module enables an administrator and learner to set and specify deadlines for goals, targets and actions.

ndividual Learning Plan

integrates Google Apps Premier or Education Edition with Moodl

1200*824

16 GB

3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Dock Connector to USB Cable

1 Week

PDF, PPT, PPTX, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, JPG, TIFF, GIF, HTML, MP3, WAV, MPEG-4, MOV, H.264

ePub (Open Format)

Web, Mail, Photos, Video, Music, Books, Maps, Notes, Calendar, Contacts, & 140,000 apps via App Store

If one is an avid book reader & is going to use the device primarily for reading eBooks only, then Kindle would make more sense

browse web, emailing, view videos, listen to music, and make presentations etc, than in that case iPad beats Kindle hands down.

No Support for Flash – Like iPhone, even iPad doesn’t support Flash

iPad doesn’t support multi-tasking, is not a phone, has upper limit to disk space (64 GB), doesn’t have an inbuilt camera, and doesn’t support MS Office (does support MS Office’s formats though) among other things

expensively funded release of university content in Ireland that was accessed by just 40 students.

University of Westminster has around 25 students on it, yet an average of 2,500 unique users from all over the world consume the course’s OER content

It is not as simple as just releasing OER on to the web or in a repository. The real work begins when you try to promote and disseminate the resources

t is not just about having a Facebook account or a Twitter feed. To make these things work, you have to interact with the people who follow you (your so-called friends or followers). You need to link to other key players releasing interesting content related to your own, respond to questions and requests on a regular basis and regularly update your content with lists of the most popular and newest releases.

One great thing about using the web for marketing is that you can track everything you are doing. I can tell you that today, 10 people came to our OER content via our Facebook site, 25 came via Twitter and 12 via YouTube. This is powerful stuff, because you can home in on what really works.

it is the argument that OER can be sustainable and even make a contribution to a university’s bottom line that is perhaps the most pertinent one.