About online learning from around the ‘Net
August 26, 2008 by John St.Clair · Leave a Comment
This page is an amalgamation of the news feeds from several leading sources in instructional technology. Following a link will take you off this site and allow you to visit the full story at the original source. I developed this page mostly for myself but hope others find it a quick overview and useful page.
The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog
- Number of Data Breaches at Colleges Still on the Rise
- Faculty Members Given Laptops May Incur Taxes
- Learning With ‘Clickers’ Gets Better After Peer Discussions
- Guest Blogger: Technology Leaders Can Help Colleges, and the Nation, Weather the Recession
- Defendants in Music-Industry Lawsuit Ask for Trial to Be Broadcast Online
- Music Industry Ditches Company It Used to Gather Evidence on Students
- Stanford U. Unveils iPhone Application That Will Soon Let Students Locate Each Other
- Introducing Wired Campus’s First Guest Blogger, Tracy Mitrano
- Wired Campus Is Taking a Holiday Break
- Did Company Use Fake Facebook Groups to Market to Students?
Educational Technology
- Using virtual worlds and video games to teach the lessons of reality - Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American
- Obama pledges schools upgrade in stimulus plan - LIBBY QUAID, AP
- School experiment leaves pupils to their own devices - Miki Perkins, WA Today (Australia)
- Dearborn Public School’s Web site earns high praise - Press and Guide
- Learning through play - Jennifer Bacchus, Jacksonville News
- Tech purchase allows students to see, not just hear, when they learn - SUE TER MAAT, Chi*Town Daily News
- Virtual reality comes to the classroom - REBECCA TODD - The Press (New Zealand)
- CES 2009: Netbooks and notebooks from under $500 to over $5,000 - Jacqueline Emigh, BetaNews
- Teachers can find online donors to fill their wishes - Eileen FitzGerald, News-Times
- MSU-Billings hosts computer camp - KTVQ in Billings
- RIAA drops effort to sue song swappers - eSchool News
- Report: Schools Throwing Away E-rate Funds - Dave Nagel, THE Journal
- Teachers turn to Web for classroom supply help - Ron Matus, St. Petersburg Times
- School’s math lessons go high-tech - CATHY GRIMES, Newport News Daily Press
- Rethinking libraries - Trevor Jones, The Berkshire Eagle
- Intrusion prevention in primary education - David R. Bailey, TechLearning
- Teaching the teachers: What’s changed in education - Edith Starzyk, Plain Dealer
- Seven New Cases of “Cyberbullying” Are Prosecuted - David Fierce, eFluxMedia
- Small laptops pose big threat - John Edwards, Computerworld
- Schools going high tech - Stephanie Bertholdo, the Acorn
- Computer geeks are building the future - Carol La Valley, Rim County Gazette
- OC professor to work on technological literacy - The Edmond Sun
- “Netbook” A Major Tech Trend Of 2008 - Larry Magid, CBS
- Schools prepare for spending cuts - Jeff Gatlin, Pinnacle Online
- The top 10 ed-tech stories of 2008 - eSchool News
EDUCAUSE | Contributed by EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative and Instructional Technologies
- 7 Things You Should Know About Lecture Capture
- 7 Things You Should Know About Wii
- 7 Things You Should Know About Multi-Touch Interfaces
- 7 Things You Should Know About Lulu
- ELI Discovery Tool: Applying Technology to Teaching and Learning
- 7 Things You Should Know About Citizen Journalism
- Engineering Informatics for Bio-Inspired Robots
- 7 Things You Should Know About Data Visualization
- 7 Things You Should Know About Haptics
- CyberBridges—An Authentic Learning Case Study
EDUCAUSE | E-Learning
- 7 Things You Should Know About Lecture Capture
- Student perceptions of the effectiveness of group and individualized feedback in online courses
- Is Technology the Answer to Rising College Costs?
- Living and learning with new media: summary of findings from the Digital Youth Project
- Distance Student Learning: The Addition of Rich Media and an Assessment of Outcomes
- With Students Flocking Online, Will Faculty Follow?
- A Complete Online Class: Course Management, Live Web Conferencing, and Teacher-Made Streaming Movies
- Inspiring Innovative Teaching Ideas Through the E-Teaching Collaborative
- Asynchronous and Synchronous E-Learning
- Information Presentation for Effective
E-Learning
