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The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere. It boasts over 1800 videos covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology and finance. The videos have all been been recorded by the one man – Salman Khan. His approach...
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A good listen. A podcast from JISC on the current status and value of online learning. It’s looking at Higher Education in the UK in particular. One finding is that universities use online learning for a very narrow range of subjects, avoiding humanities in particular. Take a listen: JISC Blog Tweet
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Yup, I’m reviving ScotFEICT. The technology behind it makes it a cinch to edit and maintain (bless you WordPress 3.) It’s still a work in progress, of course, but it’s a good exercise. To find out more, contact me. -Noel Chidwick, scotfeict@newcurioshop.com Tweet
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Learn 4 Life is a blog run by a Leon Cych, former editor of ICT in Education for Naaace. It’s focused on schools, as far as I can tell, with an emphasis and interest in video and virtual worlds (eg Second Life) in education. Tweet
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This is a handy posting and resource featuring some valuable tools. It also takes a look at the definition of Web 2.0 – it’s a useful shorthand for making more use of the Web. via Nik’s Quick Shout: Web 2.0 Tools for EFL ESL Teachers. Tweet
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Impress your students. WIX helps you build colourful web site for your learning resources. Sometimes its useful to be able to have a web site over which you have full control, and there’s no need to have to negotiate the nest if IT staff who are hell bent on preventing you use the Internet...
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California’s Free Digitial Textbook Initiative, hosted by the California Learning Resource Network, has announced the first 10 free digital textbooks to be used in California classrooms. via LearnCentral. Tweet
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Here’s another online classroom tool, the kind that encourages to create an online course and fill it with stuff. This one looks pretty powerful, and its free offering seems not be be too stunted. However, it’s not really until you pay for membership that you can really make use of it admin and payment...
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This looks to be an interesting idea. You create your online course, and Digital Chalk manage the administration, taking a percentage of the student fee. Digital Chalk also charge for setup, although there is a free setup option with limited features. The only demo of a course I could see on my brief visit...
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The learnforever blog is a collection of musings on learning by Kenneth Fee, former Director of the eLearning Alliance in Scotland. Kenneth is writing a book which he describes as a “a compendium of tools and techniques for learning and development.” He’s looking for suggestions and ideas, so if you can hep him pop along...
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