re:Learn – From Chatbots to Open Badges – April 2018
This is re:Learn, a short space to share some of the things that sparked my interest this week, things I’m learning, seeing in new light, or simply re:learning. Tool if the Day Anki Let’s...
Tagged: open source
5 Not so Crazy Predictions for Education in 2012
It”s not not uncommon for geeks to do some wishful thinking a line any mortal hoping their tech dreams will come true in the new year to come. Id like to make some predictions...
Learning Resource Metadata
Something that bothers me sometimes is the poor search results yielded when one looks for educational resources. So many good projects I know of simply don’t show up in a simple Google search no matter what keywords I add into...
Free Full Online Courses by Stanford University – Spring 2012
Several universities world-wide have made their courseware available in different formats over the years. A very popular format is that of podcasts on iTunesU or video lectures on Youtube. See, for instance, this broad...
Google Launches Its Own Open Source Learning Platform – CloudCourse
In an arena dominated by Moodle, Google launches its own open source learning platform: CloudCourse. According to the blog “Open Source at Google”, the application was released with the intention of driving developers to...
Learning Languages with Open Source Resources and an Open Mind
Of course learning languages can be both fun and challenging. Still in Brazil (in my teenage days) I learned English mostly by listening to my favorite artists, translating their music and making up dialogs...
Online File Storage is Evolving – Store, Use, Share Your Media Everywhere
I am a huge fan of having access to my files anywhere, anytime. On a friend’s computer, at home, on my mobile device (the iPhone), etc. Securely, of course… I have written about file...
