Reusable and Shareable Learning Objects
When we normally think of reusable learning objects we think of reusing them in other traditional learning settings, be it a chapter of a student manual or a video used in a different e-learning...
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The end of assessment as we know it
“The concept of a job is going away” (Bersin, 2012) and so should the concept of assessment. At least assessment as we know it. Or the assessment forms that we dearly esteem. The truth...
Youtube EDU
There is a vast sea of information out there. In fact, it’s hard not to avoid drowning in it if you, as an educator or learner (which we all are) don’t put strategies in...
Google+ Project – New Social Networking Service by Google
Will the guys from Techcrunch soon put one more of Google’s social media endeavors in the deadpool akin to Google Video, Google Wave and so many others?? I hope not, this new (“limited Field...
Museum of Me – a Visualization of Your (online) Social Life
Intel’s Museum of Me is a must-see exhibition of a famous online personality: you. It pull videos, photos, “likes”, friends, and other information about you on Facebook (with tour permission) and organizes a (fake,...
Gamifying Learning
If you google “gamify“, “gamification” or “gamifying”, you will find several entries with this relatively new trend on the Web (the term is normally related to Web design and marketing). I just wrote a...
Isolating eLearning
The term “social” has become quite popular amongst those involved in Web development, marketing, journalism, and many other fields. Education isn’t immune to that trend. “Social media” seems to now have claimed the title...
Social Media Threat to Education?
“CNN Sees Facebook as Major Competitor” says Mashable’s writer Jennifer Van Grove in an article today. Even though it seems reasonable at first “well, people are getting their news first on Facebook”, media giants...
Watch Le Web Live December 10 2009
About Le Web: “The real time web is taking the world by storm! Twitter has grown exponentially in one year with an extremely simple service that does only one thing: keep you in touch...
Learner vs Participant
The term learner bears a sense of a passive individual that is merely a receptacle for Instruction and information. In light of this assumption, one would presume that another word or another view of...
