What education will look like in 10 years

From the Reverend on Bava Tuesdays I was grateful to receive notification of this brilliant presentation on the prospects for the future of education from Andre Malan, an undegraduate student at the University of British Columbia. It is so good, I feel that it’s worth putting on the learning lab…

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Absolutely outstanding….

Many of you signed up members of the Learning Lab will be familiar with the Alan Levine’s CogDogBlog (and if you aren’t grab the RSS feed today!). Well today, Alan published an article on how he used cooliris to put together an amazing presentation on e-learning. You just have to…

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Learning Lab ScreenCasts

At the risk of blowing my own trumpet I thought I’d publicise the fact that I have now a small but growing collection of screencasts hosted on ScreenCast.com in a special Learning Lab folder. I also just noticed that Screencast.com allows subscription to this collection with iTunes and RSS. The…

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Onramp and Voicethread.com

“Ed Techie” (Martin Weller) recommended a new on-line resource for educators wanting to learn about e-learning. The resource is called Onramp and it’s being published by Jennifer (Jen) Jones on her blog Jenuity.com. Although I’ve only just discovered it and have only read the introductions and “lesson” 1 of the…

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Personal Learning Environments?

I must confess to being confused about what a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is. Having just watched Graham Atwell’s new slide cast on the topic, I can agree that a PLE should be an environment that allows “accessing and searching, aggregating and scaffolding, manipulating, analysing, storing, reflecting, presenting, re-presenting and sharing.” But…

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Adding a Wiki to Blackboard and Jing!

In today’s excellent lunch-and-lean session, Matthew Allen told us how to take the fear out of e-learning by thinking about how traditional teaching methods may be enhanced by technology. In other words, we should regard e-learning is a means to an end, and not the end itself. These insights are…

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Google Reader for Beginners

Any blogger worth his or her salt will eventually need to make use of an RSS Feed Aggregator to keep up to date with all the information that’s out there. My personal favourite is Google Reader, which I use over breakfast instead of a newspaper to catch up on interesting…

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Digital Student

The Education Guardian today published a supplement in association with JISC called Digital Student. Discussing technology in further and higher education, it looks like it should be required reading for all in the Learning Lab community. Headline topics include Academia Tackles the Future, Second Life for Teaching? and ‘Building a…

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Thanks for the Free Software!

Yesterday was Thanksgiving in the USA and in celebration Gina Trapani at LifeHacker published a top 50(ish) list of free tools. I thought the article “Thanksgiving: Free Software We’re Most Thankful For” was worth sharing with the Learning Lab Community as I’m thankful for quite a few of these myself!

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Delicious in Four Minutes

For today’s lunch and learn session I created a screencast of the presentation I wanted to make and published it along with some notes on the Lunch and Learn Top 10 Tools and Tips page on the Learning Lab wiki. The video is actually around five minutes long and the…

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