Vol. 9, No. 2 of the MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) has been published and is available online. In this issue you will find 12 peer-reviewed scholarly articles, nine of which comprise the much-awaited Special Issue on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), guest edited by Dr. George Siemens (Athabasca University), Dr. Valerie Irvine... Read More ›

(This is the 15th article of the series of learning design tips from dominKnow KnowledgeBase; this post is to demonstrate what details you can program when exporting your course in Claro authoring environment) When publishing you can select a Publishing Profile or click the "…" button next to the publishing profiles select box to manage your profiles.... Read More ›

14 open content resources for English Language Art are reviewed here, including curricula, professional development resources, ebooks and videos. One of them is for special need learners. Developing Core Proficiencies Curriculum Developed by Odell Education (OE) and funded by the USNY Regents Research Fund, the Developing Core Proficiencies Curriculum is an integrated set of English... Read More ›

Teaching is not simply the delivery of content, via lecture-taxi, to passive minds. Participation and collaboration ignites powerful learning, and empowers students to engage in thoughtful, meaningful scholarship. And open source can be the catalyst. Here are five great open source applications for learning, recommended by Charlie and first published on OpenSource.com. Xournal Annotation, journaling, and note-taking... Read More ›

As it’s first published in the online session "OER and Mobile Learning" held last Friday, an initiative from us is  explained with more details here. We’d like to invite English language teachers and others to work together to create "mobile OERs for learning English" for children and everyone so that the mobile-friendly content can reach... Read More ›

The preview was just released!  The NMC Horizon Report > 2013 Museum Edition, is a co-production with the Marcus Institute for Digital Education in the Arts (MIDEA), and examines emerging technologies for their potential impact on and use in education and interpretation within the museum environment. From the first round of advisory board rankings ("Short List")... Read More ›

By Rebecca Louis Students with speech delays, autism, cerebral palsy and down syndrome have found new ways to express themselves, thanks to modern technology. Source: Special-Education-Degree.net A Brief History of Children with Special Education Needs Before the 1800s: Persons with physical and mental disabilities were targets of discrimination across cultures for thousands of years. On virtually... Read More ›

Press Release                                                                                                     Contact:  Sally Gifford, NEA Public Affairs September 26, 2013                                                                                        202-682-5606 | giffords@arts.gov The latest survey explores five areas... Read More ›

OLAT(Online Learning and Training) is an open source learning management system (LMS) which delivers learning services for large academic institutions to help their people accomplish a meaningful teaching and learning experience. Its continued development is funded by the University of Zurich where it is the strategic LMS. There are approximately 70,000 users and nearly 50 institutions in Switzerland using OLAT (with... Read More ›

This is the lesson 1 of online PD course "Using OER to Create K-12 Curriculum", we are transforming this course into "Using OER to Create Mobile Apps". Stay tuned! Fast forward to the future, there will be no textbook, only mobile Apps. There are interactions, conversations, frequent and instant feedback for learners and teachers, learning... Read More ›

Four big points about the impact of technology on learning By Lee Rainie,  Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project on Sep 30, 2013 Networked Learners from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

"Connectivity as a human right" is a goal for the launch of internet.org, a global partnership aiming to make internet access available to the next 5 billion people.The goal of Internet.org is to make internet access available to the two-thirds of the world who are not yet connected, and to bring the same opportunities to everyone that the connected... Read More ›

Are our school curricula preparing children for the future need of workplace? Think again. Last month, Beaver became the first school in the United States to implement computer coding into each of its classes. MacDonald, who’s been teaching at Beaver for 16 years, is head of the math department. He also holds an MFA in poetry. After... Read More ›

We rely on mobile technology for many simple tasks, but we have yet to tap its potential to enable and even transform education. That’s why experts from McKinsey and GSMA published a report "Transforming learning through mEducation" last year(2012). It reviewed early initiatives that already enhanced learning outcomes worldwide. With growing availability and demand, the report predicted mEducation is poised to... Read More ›

McKinsey & Co. and the GSMA have estimated the worldwide mobile opportunity in the education sector will be worth USD 70 billion by 2020 (check out the previous post), of which USD 32 billion is attributable to hardware and equipment sales with the balance split across a range of products and services, such as eBooks, eCourses, game and... Read More ›

You Can MOOC Yourself! Inge Ignatia de Waard published an eBook MOOC YourSelf - Set up your own MOOC for Business, Non-Profits, and Informal Communities. It’s a manual for you to build your MOOC. She also made a short list of social media tools that are useful for MOOC, why you could use it in a course and... Read More ›

The internet is a great medium to connect people and change how we learn. All we need is love to make it happen. I am Sarah Chen — the coordinator of "English For Everyone" Project. Who are we? We are high schoolers in America dedicated to use the internet and online resources to improve English... Read More ›

Do you want to add games to your training solution set but aren’t sure how to get started? Bottom-Line Performance just published a white paper to help learning professionals integrate games into their training, and create meaningful learning games. It covers the basics involved in game design. There are lots of examples included. A game’s mechanics are... Read More ›

Hi Everyone! This is an interactive brain map that Open Colleges created to show how we learn using our brain. You can spin the brain to explore all points. Enjoy! An interactive infographic brought to you by Informed

Using game-based learning(GBL) or playful design for mobile learning is a great idea since people like to play games on their mobile devices. Game-Based Learning isn’t simply adding badges and leader boards to existing training. Carlton Reeve had created a series on how learning theories overlap with games. TechNavio’s analysts forecast the Global Game-based Learning... Read More ›

Documented in the paper: (PDF file : iArchitechture), the potential for using a community of practice model built by mobile social media for supporting pedagogical transformation in broader educational contexts is illustrated. iArchi[tech]ture: Developing a mobile social media framework for pedagogical transformation Thomas Cochrane, AUT University, New Zealand David Rhodes, Te Puna Ako, Unitec, New Zealand The goal of the research was to... Read More ›

Find more education infographics on e-Learning Infographics Intuition created a mobile learning infographic which explores why there has been a significant increase in the use of mobile learning in enterprise. We look at the number of mobile devices in use by employees, how these are used for ‘Just-in-Time’ training and why mobile learning is so... Read More ›

This question has been raised for a long time : How can we make learning as engaged as playing games? Because if it’s possible, we can expect higher and richer learning outcomes. As mobile learning is becoming the new focus of education, we are still asking this question. "Too often instructional design is about the... Read More ›

Technology companies with more women in management positions have a 34% higher return on investments. How to close the gender gap in Computer Science? This infographic from Best Computer Science Schools tries to answer this question. Source: Best Computer Science Schools Sources: http://anitaborg.org/news/profiles-of-technical-women/famous-women-in-computer-science/ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/giving-women-the-access-code.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2012/07/12/computer-science-continues-growth-on-college-campuses http://www.cs.purdue.edu/history/history.html http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/compsci/ http://chronicle.com/article/Rebooting-Recruiting-to-Get/135282/ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/science/17comp.html?ex=1178856000&en=8bbc752aa6e61e7a&ei=5070&_r=0 http://www.policymic.com/articles/60305/8-women-who-are-taking-the-tech-world-by-storm http://blog.newrelic.com/2013/08/19/infographic-the-fiercest-women-in-tech-and-why-we-need-more-like-them/?utm_source=TWIT&utm_medium=social_media&utm_content=womenintech&utm_campaign=promotedtweet&mpc=SM-TWIT-generic-en-100-womenintech-august http://blog.newrelic.com/wp-content/uploads/NewRelic_FiercestWomeninTech_FINAL1.png http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/meet-some-of-silicon-valleys-female-executives/2012/07/17/gJQA67aerW_gallery.html#photo=5