"Ultimate Online Guide to Video Game Design" from OnlineGameDesignSchools.org Our mission in developing this guide is to provide in-depth resources to help you get started in becoming a video game designer. The job of video game designer is much like that of a movie director, and the path to that job is just as varied... Read More ›

By Newsroom America Feeds at 31 Oct 10:51 Media Note, Office of the SpokespersonWashington, DCOctober 31, 2013 Today, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces a partnership with online education provider Coursera to expand learning opportunities worldwide through massive open online courses (MOOCs), incorporating discussions facilitated by alumni of U.S. government exchange programs, such... Read More ›

Free, credit-bearing online learning has become accessible for students worldwide. The Open Educational Resource university, or OERu - a project of the UNESCO-Commonwealth of Learning OER Chair network - was unveiled on 1 November, promising to "revolutionise tertiary learning". The OERu is a consortium of more than thirty universities, polytechnics and community colleges from five continents... Read More ›

Here Are Some Tips to Guide You as You Explore AT Options for Your Child, brought to you by BestEducationDegrees.  Make sure you understand the basics—what AT can and cannot do. Review your child’s Individualized Education Program (IEP) or 504 plan to see if it includes provisions for assistive technology. FACT: Federal law includes a... Read More ›

Google’s popular Android-centric augmented reality(AR) game, Ingress, has finally entered open beta. Starting Nov. 4, all Android users can download the massively-multiplayer game from Google Play for free.(read more) A working definition of AR is to include the fusion of any digital information within real world settings, i.e. being able to augment one’s immediate surroundings with electronic data or information,... Read More ›

The Interaction Design Foundation was founded in 2002 by Mads Soegaard, formerly an employee of The Danish National Technological Institute; a partner at a web development company and a lecturer at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. In 2010, Mads was joined at Interaction-Design.org by his wife Rikke Friis Dam, an independent consultant, filmmaker and... Read More ›

Princeton, N.J. (November 7, 2013) — Members of Educational Testing Service’s (ETS) Research & Development (R&D) division led the assessment research behind GlassLab’s new educational game SimCity™EDU: Pollution Challenge!This new game brings elements of computer gaming to the world of education — providing assessment and learning in an environment that is engaging and exciting. ETS researchers are collaborating with... Read More ›

You’re a teacher and your school has handed you an iPad. You’re expected to do something with it and you’re freaking out. Where to start? What to do? What apps should I start with? When I first started on the iPad journey, I downloaded so many apps, it was impossible to learn how to use them all effectively.... Read More ›

This infographic is shared by www.topcomputersciencedegrees.com, enjoy the amazing projects from computer scientists! Source: TopComputerScienceDegrees.com By the year 2018, there will be 1.4 million computer specialist jobs available, but only enough college graduates to fill a fraction of them. Here are some amazing projects that may become a part of our future, thanks to computer scientists.... Read More ›

Women account for only 11 percent of game designers and 3 percent of programmers, surprised ? Check out this infographic shared by www.webdesigndegreecenter.org. Source: WebDesignDegreeCenter.org The Numbers 51% of U.S households own a dedicated game console. Women 18 or older represent a significantly greater portion of the game-playing population (31%) than boys age 17 or... Read More ›

Think Moodle is an old and boring LMS, think again! There are quite a few emerging platforms aiming to facilitate "gamification of education", but who can resist our old brother Moodle who is free, open-source, community-driven and has caught up the trend of gamifying learning. Badge, badge, badge From Moodle 2.5 and after, it’s possible... Read More ›

From "Innovating Pedagogy"(2012, 2013) published by The Open University, several emerging pedagogies and trends were studied. Publisher-led short courses are short courses offered by publishers either in affiliation with recognised educational providers, or independently. The publisher’s incentive is to understand learners in the subject areas covered by their regular publications, and to engage consumers in extended learning... Read More ›

Traditionally, college students have spent long nights in campus libraries thumbing through leatherbound volumes of academic journals and research reports. The importance of these publications has remained intact over the years, but most of today’s tech-savvy students opt to access this information using online databases. These sites generally fall into two categories. Some databases require... Read More ›

This slideshare presentation has been popular since it’s published, if you haven’t read it, enjoy! Mobile Education - Lessons from 35 Education Experts on Improving Learning with Mobile Technology from Studio B Productions, Inc.

Mobile and ubiquitous technologies have been expected to foster shifting from classroom based learning to the one that is free from time and space boundaries. In the paper — "Guidelines on Implementing Successful Seamless Learning Environments", the authors review recent researches on mobile assisted learning in order to set pedagogically-based guidelines for instructors, learning environment designers and the administrative end or decision... Read More ›

Open Educational Resources can be as large and comprehensive as a course or textbook (including one enhanced with images, multimedia, and assessments), or as small as an image, video clip, or worksheet. OER can take virtually all formats, including print, audio, images, video, animation, and other types of instructional content, though they are most often thought... Read More ›

This infographic by MobileDevelpmentExperts helps you understand the pros and cons of mobile site vs responsive design.

This lesson is comprised of several facets of using OERs for Common Core State Standards (CCSS), including finding OERs aligned to CCSS, integrating OERs into teaching and learning, contributing to OERs you use. Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Educators across the nation are working hard to begin developing updated curricula that will fit into the... Read More ›

Jessie Choi [wcchoi@ied.edu.hk], Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong Abstract This study investigates the use of e-portfolios in an independent learning process of learners in English as a second language (ESL). In this study, the instructor uses e-portfolios to manage the self-learning records of learners, to allow learners to interact with peers, and to... Read More ›

"For The Teachers" (www.fortheteachers.org) has built an organized resource for different instructional strategies. They are categorized into several moments of needs when teachers want to: Determine if students are ready to move on Discuss & examine events, people, concepts and ideas Put students in groups Use physical activity to increase engagement and memory retention Create... Read More ›

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"Education lies at the very core of our company’s mission, to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." — Page and Brin Google and other search engines are fundamentally changing the way our brains process and retain information. Is Google Making Us Stupid? When printed books were just introduced in the human... Read More ›

January is International Creativity Month. Founded by motivational speaker and author Randall Munson, International Creativity Month is geared towards celebrating the power of creativity across the globe. The ipl2 newsletter curates an array of articles illustrating how creativity is implemented in workplaces, in education, with food, with children, and across cultures. Because implementing creative projects in... Read More ›

As we move into an era of ‘seamless learning’ (using mobile devices to connect learning experiences more easily across locations, social settings and time), we increasingly recognize that at times formal learning takes place in informal settings, and informal learning in formal settings (Wong & Looi, 2011; Wong, 2012). These articles and paper shed the... Read More ›