Today, BestOnlineUniversities.com released The Mobile Learning Revolution: 101 Top Resources Education and mobile technology are two spheres with a lot of serious bloggers, which is great for anyone who wants to read up on mobile learning, because both education bloggers and tech bloggers tend to cover the subject in great detail. These sites feature articles…
Month: July 2013
Death by Standardized Tests
McGraw Hill recently released a well-received infographic titled the Educational Assessment Landscape. It’s premise is: Assessments are a key component of all education systems and play a critical role in a student’s learning journey. By measuring student achievement and skill mastery, assessments help students learn, teacher improve instruction, administrators decide how to allocate resources, and policymakers…
Ten Years of Tracking eLearning Education Survey
From the Sloan Consortium comes the tenth annual survey titled: Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States. The higher education eLearning survey is a collaborative effort between the Babson Survey Research Group and the College Board, and purports itself to be the leading barometer of online learning in the United States. …
Disney English and Immersive Technology in China
In visiting China this past Spring, I was surprised to meet so many Americans whose job it was to teach English. I was interested to learn that these opportunities were in every industrial sector, not just in schools. I stayed at an AirBnB in Shanghai, whose proprietor worked with business and government officials. These officials would…
Sign Language Recognition and Translation with Microsoft Kinect
A video uploaded this week to YouTube by Microsoft Research Asia–via the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing Union University, shows (1) visual recognition of sign language and (2) communication via an avatar. A menu on the side shows icons for “ASL” and “CSL”, to which I’ll infer these are for…
Gamification Powerful Tool For STEM
A wonderful article posted today at STEMwire on gamification and game-based learning. Read the original article at: http://stemwire.org/2013/07/15/more-than-just-play-game-based-learning-environments-are-powerful-tools-for-stem/ More than just play: game-based learning environments are powerful tools for STEM Patrick Stinnett, a technology education teacher at Oconomowoc High School, makes sure that students in his Elements of Game Design class understand one thing very…