Catégorie: TICE
Instructure Offers Bounty for New Educational Apps
By Jake New . Isolated. Too exclusive. Antisocial.
That’s how Brian Whitmer, a founder of Instructure, describes the
education-technology sector, particularly the space occupied by
developers of learning-management systems like Instructure’s Canvas.
...
PédagoTICE 2013
PédagoTICE, le 1° colloque régional Midi-Pyrénées basé sur des retours
d'expérience associant pédagogues et technologues de l'enseignement
supérieur, se tiendra le jeudi 13 juin 2013, à l'Université Toulouse 2.
...
Plateforme numérique et TICE: les 1ers utilisateurs, ce sont les étudiants!
Blog Educpros de Gilbert Azoulay . Open source ou solution propriétaire, le choix n’est pas simple. D’un
côté l’illusion du gratuit, de l’autre l’impression de payer toujours
trop cher des outils largement...
The 3 Laws of Ed-Tech Robotics
By Audrey Watters . I gave my first (and probably last) TEDx talk this weekend at TEDxNYED on the topic of ed-tech, science fiction, and ethics. Unfortunately (or fortunately -- depending on how you view things), the livestream wasn't working. I'll post a video if and when it...
New Activity Data and Paradata Briefing Paper
By Lorna . Cetis have published a new briefing paper on Activity Data and Paradata .
The paper presents a concise overview of a range of approaches and
specifications for recording and exchanging data generated by the
interactions of users with resources.
Such data is a form of...
Against Digital Research Methodologies
Against Digital Research Methodologies
Keynote presentation delivered to Digital Research Methodologies, Preston, UK, via Skype.
This is a description of my approach to research, based on problems
inherent in traditional descriptions of scientific method, and the ways I
have adapted...
La vidéo: contenu ou contenant?
Blog Educpros de Ghislain Bourdilleau . Fidèle à ma bible fictive du bon communicant, je prône la production de contenus au détriment de la prestation de services, la préférence au « donner sens » sur l’outil roi. Une philosophie...
New Approaches To Digital Literacies
This one-day event will offer new perspectives on different types of
digital literacies, with plenty of opportunities for participants to
join in the discussions. The morning session (11am-1pm) will be a
workshop focusing on the development of ‘informed researchers’ and
...
Working with new forms of online practice in the disciplines
Call open for HEA mini project - Working with new forms of online practice in the disciplines
Applications are invited from teaching staff to take part in a mini
project to help them understand how students use technology to
facilitate learning.
‘Working with new forms of online...
Call open for Digital Literacies in the Disciplines
Staff and students are invited to apply for a share of £40,000 to
fund projects that use technology to create learning resources.
Successful
applications will demonstrate opportunities for creating re-useable and
interactive e-learning materials as well as improving the digital...
VIRTUAL EDUCA COLOMBIA 2013: Las Tic, elemento estratégico para la innovación educativa
The XIV Encuentro Internacional Virtual Educa Colombia 2013 is organized by the Ministerio de Educación Nacional (MEN) of Colombia, the General Secretariat of the Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) and the General Secretariat of Virtual Educa , a multilateral...
The Tech Revolution and the Future of Higher Education
Onlinedegrees.org presents how emerging technologies will likely influence higher education in next few years. Introducing iPads and other tablets into the classroom definitely
ignited a revolutionary tech movement in higher education, but e-books
and interactive lesson plans...
Taking the Time to Learn
By Eric Stoller . Consulting is oftentimes an exercise in troubleshooting or problem
solving. Schools bring me in to talk about social media, strategic
communications, and/or digital identity. That's the initial premise and
while I end up covering the things that I'm...
Turning over a new leaf
When the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development invited me to speak at their annual HRD event at London's Olympia
I was delighted. I wasn't so keen when they asked me to supply my
slides many weeks in advance. The organisers wanted them so they could
produce delegate...
Learning Resource Metadata is Go for Schema
The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative aimed to help people discover useful learning resources by adding to the schema.org
ontology properties to describe educational characteristics of creative
works. Well, as of the release of schema draft version 1.0a a couple of
weeks ago, the...
5th CSEDU
5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2013)
CSEDU aims at becoming a yearly meeting place for presenting and
discussing new educational environments, best practices and case studies
on innovative technology-based learning strategies, institutional
...
Methods for Organizing Your Apps
By Erin E. Templeton . ProfHacker has featured several posts about various mobile apps. See for instance the Open Thread Wednesday dedicated to (y)our Favorite Weather Apps , guest author Ian MacInnes’s post on “ Finding the Best iOS App for...
The Second Internet Wave Comes to Higher Education
By Jeff Selingo . Steve Case is one of the few technology leaders who has lived through
two Internet revolutions. The founder of AOL made an appearance this
week at the Education Innovation Summit,
the upstart gathering that in its fourth year attracted some 1,400
...
Online-Learning Portal Allows Educators to Create Adaptive Content
By Jake New . Imagine more than 1,000 nurses learning how to use defibrillators at
once, each delivering shocks to a single patient. If a patient dies, the
instructor is immediately told which nurse failed, and the nurse then
tries again, but with more assistance. It’s not a...
Education Giant Pearson Adapts To Digital Learning
By Ellis Booker . Pearson, the world's largest educational publisher, recognized older students as online learning harbinger. Schools aren't the only ones grappling with big questions about online learning, flipped classrooms, assessment analytics and open-source alternatives to commercial...

