Category: Educational Technologies
Join the new AACE Special Interest Group ‘Assessing, Designing and Developing E-Learning (ADD)’
The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) has launched a Special Interest Group on Assessing, Designing and Developing E-Learning (ADD). You do not have to be an AACE member or an attendee of previous E-Learn conferences to … Read more
What’s new on my iPad: Guidebook Conference App
I have recently downloaded the app ‘Guidebook’ on my iPad to plan my conference visit to ISSOTL 2013 in Raleigh this week. The app provides the conference schedule, a map of the convention center, a list of presenters, a photo … Read more
UNC Chapel Hill meets coursera: MOOC on Metadata
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a hotly debated trend: The New York Times declared 2012 to be “The Year of the MOOC”. While sociology Professor Mitchell Duneier recently stopped offering his content on the MOOC platform Coursera over licensing … Read more
Conference Review: Elon 2012
The annual Teaching and Learning Conference at Elon is a regional event that attracts professors, instructional designers, postdocs and other academic personnel from North Carolina colleges and universities The 9th edition of this free, one-day conference took place on August … Read more
Kindle Plugin for CS 6 (beta)
A beta plugin that allows to publish directly from Adobe Indesign to Kindle has been released in July 2012. “Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign® converts the InDesign source content to a single file which supports both KF8 and Mobi formats … Read more
Special Issue on OER and Social Inclusion, Distance Education 33(2)
Distance Education is a peer-reviewed journal of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia, Inc. It publishes research and scholarly material in the fields of open, distance and flexible education. The current special issue comprises 12 articles by leading … Read more
Creative Commons Licence 4.0 – 2nd draft
The 2nd draft of the new creative commons license (version 4.0) was released on August 1st and is open for public comment. From the creative commons Web site: “Since CC’s launch in 2002, it has versioned its core license suite … Read more
Digital Scholarship: OER Collection
This Web site is a nice example on how to mold different open educational resources into one coherent collection that presents the learner with a concise, coherent and well structured curriculum. Many OER repositories and collections aim for a comprehensive … Read more