Wolfram Releases Course Assistant Apps

Stephen Wolfram has recently announced the availability of the first of a planned series of “course assistant” apps: An App for Every Course, and More. These apps, which are powered by Wolfram|Alpha and cost $1.99 (£1.19) for Algebra and Music Theory and $2.99 (£1.79) for Calculus, have the potential to…

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7 Things You Should Know About Assessing Online Team-Based Learning

7 Things You Should Know About Assessing Online Team-Based Learning http://bit.ly/clYuCb In team-based learning, students work in groups on outcome-based or problem-based assignments. Assessing the work produced by teams, however, presents a significant challenge, and this difficulty is especially prominent in online environments. Developing and implementing a transparent assessment process…

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Plagiarism the movie

A great learning resource from the University of Bergen. I’ll definately be adding this to my project briefings. The video is in Norwegian, so you might want to watch it at YouTube where you can see the subtitles in English. It also raises the bar on what a learning resource…

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Another Wave … or a bit of a trough ?

Have Google created enough of a Buzz around their new social networking platform to drag all you Gmailers’ attention away from Facebook ? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8506148.stm With loads of features (making this a very intimate service – we are told) and even getting Sergey Brin to put his weight behind it at…

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I added my first Sidewiki comment

Appropriately enough added to my own posterous.com blog posting about Sidewiki. Unexpected, but perhaps not suprising, was the discovery that as a Google “customer”, you can post your comments to your Blogger blog(s)! Twitter, Facebook and other social sharing possibilities surely must be close behind. in reference to: “In the…

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