E-learning Conferences Worldwide
Posted by Celia Walter | 6 Jan, 2010Upcoming events in internet-based education, educational technology and related fields
Innovating e-Learning online conference 2009. JISC
Posted by Celia Walter | 30 Jul, 2009Innovating e-Learning online conference 2009 takes place 24-27 November 2009. Themes for Innovating e-Learning 2009 reflect the challenges facing further and higher education in the 21st century and explore the increased options offered by technology for meeting those challenges. Follow the conference on Twitter using #jiscel09
7 e-Learning and Teaching Resources
Posted by Celia Walter | 27 Jul, 2009Dana Oshiro at ReadWriteWeb posts about Seven e-Learning and Teaching Resources. This useful list includes services such as Edmodo, the private microblogging application for schools, YouTube EDU which aggregates videos and channels from colleges and universities, and LearnHub, a network where schools can create their own virtual classrooms and students can complete assignments.
From iLibrarian
The Ubiquitous Learning Conference, November 2008
Posted by Celia Walter | 17 Aug, 2008
The Ubiquitous Learning Conference investigates the uses of technologies in learning, including devices with sophisticated computing and networking capacities which are now pervasively part of our everyday lives - from laptops to mobile phones, games, digital music players, personal digital assistants and cameras - 17-19 November 2008 - Chicago, Illinois, USA
Peter Scott’s Library blog
Peter Scott’s Library blog
Pirated and Open Source Books
Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Aug, 2008The New York Times covers the latest trend in file-sharing in First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry. Students who are angry about the cost of textbooks are turning not only to used books, but places like PirateBay.org where they can download scanned textbooks for free.
I have actually been looking into this topic for my upcoming course on Libraries and the Open Movement and have come across quite a few projects with Open Source books which have been made free by their copyright holders. If you are a student or a professor about to choose your readings for the fall semester, you may want to consider some of these choices:
- Make Textbooks Affordable Campaign
- Textbook Revolution
- O’Reilly’s Open Books Project
- Open Source Books from the Internet Archive
- Wikibooks
- Global Text Project
- Flat World Knowledge
- Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources Open Textbooks Project
If you know of any other open source textbook projects, please link to them in the comments!
70+ Open Courseware Resources
Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Aug, 2008Christina Laun at CollegeDegrees.com has compiled The Ultimate Guide to Using Open Courseware: 70+ Apps, Search Engines and Resources for Free Learning. Her annotated list of resources are divided into the following categories:
- Search Engines and Directories
- Open Courseware Collections
- Podcasts
- Videos
- eBooks
- Educational TV
- Resources, Articles and Guides
ACRL, Syracuse University and WISE present online course
Posted by Celia Walter | 30 Jul, 2008ACRL is partnering with Syracuse University and the Web-based Information Science Education (WISE) Consortium to offer WISE+: Contemporary Academic Librarianship, an online continuing education opportunity taught by ACRL Past President Julie Todaro this fall. The three-month, asynchronous course examines 21st century academic libraries (community college, college and university) within the context of higher education, scholarly communication and the world of contemporary publishing.
UNESCO. Open Training Platform
Posted by Celia Walter | 27 Jul, 2008
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added a new partner to its Open Training Platform (press release). The Open Training Platform is a collaborative tool to share and promote “open” training materials. The posted materials are free and accessible for non-commercial purposes such as teaching, learning and research. Categories cover the many aspects of UNESCO's programme, and include conversational language courses, information management, and conflict prevention. RSS feeds available for all new content, or specific topics, e.g. ethics or environment. UN Pulse Permanent Link: UNESCO's Open Training Platform
Worldwidelearn.com
Posted by Celia Walter | 23 Jul, 2008http://www.worldwidelearn.com/
...Our mission is to help you find the online degree or career school program near you, online course, and online education resources you'll need to achieve your personal goals.
Largely USA and Canada , but there is a link
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Children in virtual worlds: conference web site
Posted by Celia Walter | 23 Jul, 2008'Children in Virtual Worlds' is the website of a joint conference held by
the BBC, the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the University
of Westminster. The one-day conference was held in May 2008, in a climate of
increasing moral panic on the topic by media commentators and pressure groups.
The conference proceedings are being placed online, and at mid July 2008 the
following academic papers are available: 'New research on virtual worlds for
children'; 'Children in virtual worlds: legal issues'; 'Researching virtual
worlds: let's talk about ethics'; 'Learning from online worlds: teaching in
Second Life'; 'Immersion and play in virtual and actual places'; and a report on
the BBC's 'Adventure Rock' online world (formerly CBBC World). Most of these
papers are in PDF form, but there is also some video from the conference. The
website also contains full details of the conference programme. The papers this
website contains will be useful for those researching new forms of interactive
media, the changing media consumption of young childhood in the UK, and also the
knowledges and attitudes about virtual worlds that young people may bring with
them in the near-future when they enter higher education. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.childreninvirtualworlds.org.uk/
http://www.childreninvirtualworlds.org.uk/
Instructional uses for the Nintendo Wii game system
Posted by Celia Walter | 23 Jul, 20087 Things You Should Know About Wii
July 22nd, 2008
Educators have begun finding instructional uses for the Nintendo Wii game system including as a tool to teach conducting at the College of Music, as an interactive whiteboard, and as an engaging way to teach geography, math, and English at the K-12 levels. The latest “7 Things” document from Educause discusses these innovations as well as addresses seven questions:
- What is it?
- Who’s doing it?
- How does it work?
- Why is it significant?
- What are the downsides?
- Where is it going?
- What are the implications for teaching and learning?
Megatrends in e-learning provision [EU funded research]
Posted by Celia Walter | 8 Mar, 2008
Megatrends in e-learning provision
The Megatrends project is an EU funded research collaboration seeking
to identify the rules for achieving critical mass in e-learning and for
moving from a small scale to large scale e-learning provision. It has
identified, surveyed, analysed and evaluated large scale e-learning
providers, looked at failed e-learning initiatives and provided
recommendations for successful large scale e-learning implementations.
Users can access more information about the projects, download
publications - including the final recommendations and see information
broken by project workpackage. From Intute.ac.uk
http://nettskolen.nki.no/in_english/megatrends/
http://nettskolen.nki.no/in_english/megatrends/