The Emerging EdTech blog spotlights instructional designer and teacher Kimberly Greene’s insights into Brandman University’s implementation of a blended-learning environment in their School of Education. Positive results of the project included a more collaborative environment for both faculty and students. More challenging aspects of the effort included lack of access to reliable Internet connections and a loss of a sense of control for participants.
A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age
January 24, 2013EdSurge discusses a Bill of Rights and Principles, newly developed by a group of people passionate about learning, serving today’s students, and using every available tool to respond better to the needs of students in a global, interactive, digitally connected world....
Digital Content: What Does the Future Hold for Education Systems?
January 23, 2013GETideas.org hosted this GooglePlus hangout on the future of digital content. The online discussion featured a panel of education experts, including Nicole Allen, affordable-textbooks advocate, Student PIRGS; Una Daly, communication college outreach director, OpenCourseWare Consortium; and Cable Green, director of global...
Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement: A Realist Analysis
January 22, 2013In Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement, author Roy Nash argues that a realist framework for the sociological explanation of educational group differences can, and must be, constructed. A move to such an explanatory framework will allow society to take into account the...
Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools
January 14, 2013In Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools, renowned educator and technology expert Jim Lengel provides a refreshing and hopeful picture of what schools should look like, including a groundbreaking seven-step process for envisioning and building them that draws on the...
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September 21, 2011This CNBC special report looks at how online elementary schools are becoming a popular and additional option to the traditional public-school alternatives of private schools and home schooling. Overall, more than 500,000 students are learning online full-time in the U.S. Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia have virtual schools, and 29 states offer full-time online schools.
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September 20, 2011The Mobile Learning Edge shares five presentations collected by Timo Ilomaki on the future of mobile learning. The first presentation, by Rudy De Waele, gives multiple views from 46 different “experts” on mobile learning. The second presentation, by Minjuan Wang, is a compilation of immediate trends in mobile learning. The third presentation, by Judy Brown, gives great examples that most people will find fresh and new from their prespective. The fourth, by James…
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September 16, 2011This Intelligence Brief from Higher Education Strategy Associates is based on a survey of Canadian students to determine their views on e-learning. Among many interesting findings, the brief reports that students in e-resource-intensive classes are overwhelmingly likely to say that courses that are conducted entirely without e-learning resources are superior to blended courses in terms of quality of instructors and quality of overall education.
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September 14, 2011The Mobl21 blog discusses three models of mobile learning: Web: accessing the Internet from mobile devices App: downloading education applications to mobile devices Cell: learning via cellular phones using text or voice
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September 14, 2011E-Infrastructures and Technologies for Lifelong Learning: Next-Generation Environments edited by George Magoulas, provides a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art technologies for e-learning and lifelong learning, examining theoretical approaches, models, architectures, systems, and applications. It addresses critical issues in the field, providing readers with insight on the various stages of the technological life cycle, as well as applications in real-world settings. As a one-stop reference, this book provides a holistic view of the various…
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September 10, 2011The Reinventing School Challenge is a program that uses design, collaboration, technology, play, and social media to engage and empower young people to effect positive change in their school community and gain 21st-century skills. The challenge runs twice yearly: A new challenge starts in September and in March of each year. The Challenge invites students, teachers, parents, and subject matter experts to collaborate. Form or join a team and research, ideate,…
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September 6, 2011This Conversations on Global Education video features Mohammad Qayoumi, former president of California State University, East Bay (CSUEB), and Kim Polese, former CEO of the Silicon Valley firm SpikeSource and member of the University of California President’s Board on Science and Innovation. In this four-part series, Qayoumi and Polese discuss CSUEB’s Open Learning Ecosystem paradigm.
