If you are a teacher, trainer, an ELT decision maker or studying for an MA or PhD we can help to keep you informed about the latest ELT and educational technology news and research with a new collection of links every week.
Twitter is a free service that allows users to exchange short messages (known as tweets) of up to 140 characters quickly and easily. Tweets can be read via email, instant messages (IM), text messages on a mobile phone, or on the Web. In the second semester of the academic year 2007-08, I asked the 190 students enrolled in my course to sign up for Twitter so they could receive classroom announcements and news posted on the course blog. Sixty students signed up for the service.
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The Web has encouraged content creation through writing and media production. A corollary is that presentation of content on the Web is subtly changing the way people read, process information, and think. Print technology facilitates forms of concentrated and sustained attention and thought. Internet technology facilitates a more distributed and plastic form of thinking. This shift is more than merely a change in the way we read or a change in our behavior.
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Last month we wrote about a professor’s experiment in “open teaching,” in which he allowed anyone to take his online course and fully participate in discussions. Since then readers have alerted us to at least three other experiments in open teaching, in what appears to be a growing movement.
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Discussion of some of the principles of the personal learning environment with a look at my own gRSShopper software as well as the Connectivism online course. (Keynote)..
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Presentation on Open Educational Resources (OER) at the Brandon Hall Innovations in Learning conference. Talks about licenses, content models, funding models, some major initiatives, and more. (Keynote)...
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Muhammad has arrived in year 6 as a refugee and has problems adjusting in the classroom and outside. We explore what the different agencies can do
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Now more than ever, incoming undergraduate students need to know how to conduct research. Digitization is radically expanding the information universe. Printed sources are migrating into digital forms, unprecedented amounts of new information are being born digital, and entirely new Internet-based tools – search engines, directories, library portals, current alert services, metasearch engines, review services, relevance rankings, popularity-based retrieval – are proliferating. As a consequence, all information seekers are now in the same deep and rich pool of information where academics have trod alone for years.
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Traditional forms of distance education in higher education have existed since the middle of the 1880s. Leading scholars in this field attempted to define the environment, individual roles, and the patterns of behaviors of online education. A theory is needed to describe and define the field, and to identify the various forms of online teaching and learning
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Virtual worlds are engaging, stimulating spaces where students can meet online for normal class activities, including lectures, discussions, case studies, projects, papers, exams, and labs. Classes are a mix of synchronous and asynchronous activity. A virtual world class differs from a traditional course management system, such as Blackboard or Moodle, due to the three-dimensional (3D) graphical setting
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The study investigated a range of characteristics of intercultural competence in young language learners in one Australian primary school. This paper explores students’ expression of identity formation aligned with the act of speaking the target language, which the authors believe to be an expression of students’ intercultural competence.
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The Learning Content Development System (LCDS) is a free tool that enables you to create high quality, interactive, online courses. Virtually anyone can publish e-learning courses by completing the easy-to-use LCDS forms that seamlessly generate highly customized content, interactivities, quizzes, games, and assessments - as well as animations, demos, and other multimedia.
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