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Ready-loaded iPad educator

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Connie Malamed's posting First iPad University Course drew my attention to the mini MBA course being put together by Rutgers University and Appleā€™s higher education team. Perhaps that's not part of the educational model in this case. I know it's a story when the iPad is first used in an educational context. Of course not.

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Our Skills Journey offer to the learning community in difficult times

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At Skills Journey we have a long history of supporting individuals and organisations as they make their first steps into digital learning. If you work in healthcare or education, an annual subscription is currently FREE. You can request access here.

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Is the net generation really unique?

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"They are variously known as the Net Generation, Millennials, Generation Y or Digital Natives. Growing up with the internet, it is argued, has transformed their approach to education, work and politics." Only a small fraction of students may count as true digital natives, in other words.

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Because you can use one technology doesn't mean you can use them all

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Conversely, only 42 percent of students believe there is enough support for educational technology, evidence of a perception gap in how adept students are versus how savvy they are presumed to be. According to the survey, students prefer courses that use a great deal of technology, provided there is adequate support in using the tools.

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Insights: E-learning design is changing

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The term has always been used this broadly in education, but in the corporate sector it continues to mean one thing only: interactive self-study tutorials, in the style of good old CBT (computer-based training). We're looking for a new breed of digital learning content designers. I have now just about given up on this.

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In their own words

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The research was carried out in the UK amongst those involved in further and higher education, as well as work-based learning. I'd like to share some of the conclusions: " Learning in a digital age : Using technologies in all aspects of their studies, today's digital learners rarely see e-learning as a separate or special activity.

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Games lessons

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And it will have shown that in education, as in other fields of activity, it is not enough just to apply new technologies to existing processes ā€” for maximum effect you have to apply them in new and imaginative ways.

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