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Thursday, September 2, 2010
The National Center for Education Statistics has just released a publication entitled ‘Postsecondary Institutions and Price of Attendance in the United States: Fall 2009 and Degrees and Other Awards Conferred: 2008-09, and 12-Month Enrollment 2008-09'. Tags: Education News Research Great stuff if you are.
 
Thursday, September 2, 2010
The best part of the tool is that it’s under the control of the educator (or learner). I’ve heard of SNAPP before – &# software tool that allows users to visualize the network of interactions resulting from discussion forum posts and replies&# – but decided to play around with it today.
 
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
When I listen to the frustration of my #lrnchat (education) friends about IT, it is obvious to me that they are outsiders to the IT world. In my case, I straddle the technical community that I am a member of with the education community. I’m so lucky to be managing this community, because the “community&# already exists.
 

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And adding technology hardware is not enough, the next wave in engineering and technology education is to leverage the connectivity of the third millennials and their aptitude for creating content to share with others via web-based and mobile-based social networking tools. Tags: Education
number of signs of the stock market bubble, technology bubble, and recent credit bubble point to the higher education bubble continuing to grow. Where he indicated that colleges are becoming more like cruise ships than educational institutions. They are indeed closer and closer to resorts than to serious places of educational intent.
Further, students report that one of the most common topics of conversation on the social networking scene is education. Almost 60 percent of students who use social networking talk about education topics online and, surprisingly, more than 50 percent talk specifically about schoolwork. research reports education informal learning
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Formal education institutions exist in their current form only because tests and other forms of assessment are so poor. Conclusion The future of assessment, and all of education, is The MESH. Tags: A New Direction for Education As well, it should by adaptive and current. This has caused problems in the past.
There is a growing head of steam around changes to education systems around the world, largely driven by budget cuts. Tags: open university education black swan So says Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn in Forbes magazine. My hope is that the opportunity is grabbed to more deeply re-think how we use learning technology to.
Continuing on from my first post on Google Wave: “What is Google Wave?&# I’ve been finding and reading (and printing, sorry trees) a fair bit of information.
Here is a list of educational games that can be used to teach kids during the school year or over the summer break. Here is a list of the top 10 most visited educational games on Nobel Prize web site. Here are some games based on Nobel Prize winning research. This game teaches about Nobel Prize winning Chemistry Research.
Some stray thoughts, in no particular order, gathered over time, on the differences between education and training, from the lens of custom content creation for diverse companies across the world. Education (even vocational education) is far transfer; training is near transfer. Most education would be transferable.
However,I recently came across this huge list of iPhone Apps for Education, made available via Scribd (and embedded below): ICTAC MEMO iPhone Apps for Education. Over the last year or so I've been building a list of list of apps. including optimized sites and web apps) for the iPod Touch and the iPhone.