By Marianne Stenger, re-published with the permission of OpenColleges.edu.au This week we talked with Flipped Learning’s Jonathan Bergman; teacher, writer and educational coach who is passionate about helping educators figure out what is best for their students in their classroom. Bergmann has over 24 years of experience as a high school science teacher and in 2002 he... Read More ›

by Justin Marquis Ph.D., OnlineUniversities.com Radio, TV, computers, video games, the Internet, and MOOCs. As major technological innovations have occurred throughout our history they have been regularly touted as the next great thing in education. Few of them ever actually live up to the hype though, and eventually fade out of education even as their prominence in... Read More ›

Although organizations desire to leverage mobile technologies to train employees, and education institutes want to engage learners and improve learning outcomes through the devices in their pockets. Some expectations for mobile learning (mlearning) might not be realistic. According to Mobile Learning Decision Path(MLDP, published by Advanced Distributed Learning), when reflecting on whether mobile learning is... Read More ›

The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required. There are 4600 images from the J. Paul Getty Museum available in high resolution on the Getty’s website for use without restriction—representing 4,689... Read More ›

Open Educational Resources(OER) and mobile learning are both equalizers to eliminate education opportunity gap. Today mobile technologies are often common even in areas where schools, books and computers are scarce. As the price of mobile phone ownership continues to decline, more and more people, including those in extremely impoverished areas, are likely to own and know how to use a... Read More ›

Today, The Brookings Institution just released a paper in conjunction with the event Mobile Learning: Transforming Education and Engaging Students and Teachers hosted by the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings at the same day. Mobile Learning: Transforming Education, Engaging Students, and Improving Outcomes Mobile learning represents a way to address a number of our educational problems. Devices such as... Read More ›

This is a reminder for the upcoming online session and Twitter meet-up : OER and Mobile Learning. Course module goes live : 9:30 AM, CST, Sep. 20, 2013 (check out your time zone) Twitter meet-up : 10:30 ~ 11:30 AM, CST, Sep. 20, 2013 (check out your time zone) This is the last session of the... Read More ›

This is the last session of the OER MOOC, we hope you will join us and participate in the discussion. The course module is a web package, participants don’t need to sign up or login to any system. Just visit the permanent URL as below and you are good to go. You only need a Twitter... Read More ›

Being a leader in providing mobile technologies for business or education, Qualcomm published an article explores how the Internet and mobile broadband technologies that are transforming the work of business professionals may be applied to the work of teachers and students in K‐20 schooling, with similarly transformative outcomes. Over the past decade, trends in education have increasingly begun... Read More ›

By Santosh Bhaskar K OER (Open Educational Resources) are freely accessible, usually openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, educational assessment and research purposes i.e. They include learning content (course materials), tools (software to create and manage open learning content) and licenses. OER lowers the cost of educational materials, develops innovative content and... Read More ›