Category: Educational

Ten Technologies That Are Going To Change The Way We Learn – Robin Good’s Latest News: In this article, Robin Good lists 10 technologies that he feels have the potential to change learning, both for face to face learners, and distance learners. Each technology is linked to a relevant section of his blog, which overall…

Using RELOAD: The Reload tool, which you have on your CDs, which is an example of a tool that you can use to help you generate XML markup describing your learning objects (e.g. to share them with others, integrate into other systems), is described and demonstrated on this video….

ICTP Workshop on Web Enabling Technologies for Scientists: “The plethora of (less-known) Open Source technologies can offer to the Scientific Community of the Third World concrete alternatives to enter the Internet Revolution and to share their contents and resources with their peers world-wide. This lack of knowledge indicates the need for the academic environment to…

A review of the literature.I’ve recently come across this review, published by the LSDA (Learning and Skills Development Agency), and it seems to be quite comprehensive. As they are working with the post-16 sector, the research that they’ve reviewed does seem to focus slightly more to this end. From the skim read I’ve had so…

EDUCAUSE REVIEW | November/December 2004,?Volume 39, Number 6 Another Educause paper (Educause seems to be a good source of information). This time it is looking at emerging technologies, covering those that can be of advantage to the Higher Education Community – such as Learning Objects, those that are currently seen as a problem – but…

The BBC now have some Swimming Master Classes online. I’d be interested to know how easy it is to improve your swimming style in front of the PC … and then to see an improvement in your actual style. I suppose if you had one of these then you could study it and swim as…