Minnesota and Coursera An article from Ars Technica today seems to paint a different picture from the early and emotional headlines regarding the state of Minnesota’s reported “ban” of Coursera’s free online courses. The Chronicle of Higher Education reporter Katherine Mangan seemed to start the furor with the headline Minnesota Gives Coursera the Boot, Citing a Decades-Old…
Tag: elearning
Education Revolution: The Online Education Boom
As the Online Education Boom has been occurring for over a decade, the reverberations are finally being noticed by the media due to recent developments with major universities who are finally jumping-in full force and legitimizing online learning, despite years of turning-up their noses at this alternative form of education. That we’re in a pivotal…
Learning Technologies 2012 – Ray Kurzweil – The Web Within Us: When Minds and Machines Become One
Learning Technologies- The web within us: When minds and machines become one video by Ray Kurzweil (excerpts below) The onset of the 21st century is an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human is both enriched and challenged, as our species breaks the shackles of its genetic legacy, and…
6 Gotta’s of Mobile Learning | ej4 Whiteboard Wednesday
www.ej4.com | Mobile Learning, mlearning Mobile learning, although much talked about, is still in the early adopter phase because costs are still high, there are questions about security and the IT department is still skeptical or doesnt want to support everyones new Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) philosophy. Lots of companys (and learning vendors) are…
Why mLearning – ELS 2012 – Growth of Mobile Device and impact on learning
Why you need to create a strategy for Mobile Learning NOW!- from Sanjay Nasta, MicroAssist. Marcus Turner, Atomic Axis presentation at E-Learning Symposium 2012
Universal Instructional Design Principles for Mobile Learning
by Tanya Elias Athabasca University, Canada originally appeared in The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning February – 2011 Abstract The report extends a previous analysis of universal instructional design principles in distance education by applying them to the design of mobile learning. Eight principles with particular relevance for distance education…