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TCC08: Cultural Diversity in Online Education

Experiencing eLearning

Cultural Diversity and Its Impact in an Online Education Environment. Example with researching the Hague Convention countries. Especially in online education, language is a big aspect. IM can be useful for building relationships b/c the expectations for spelling and language aren’t so formal.

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Daily Bookmarks 04/26/2008

Experiencing eLearning

tags: education , writing , multimedia , web2.0 , k-12. Basically, the research shows that students do sometimes forget and let abbreviations from texting into other writing, but overall the technology use and writing students do improves their writing. tags: research , writing , education , technology.

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eLearning Conferences

Tony Karrer

All the information below was obtained from Internet sources and announcements in educational journals. asp January 4-7, 2009 Hawaii International Conference on Education , 7 th annual, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. link] aspx January 14-17, 2009 British Educational Technology Show , London, United Kingdom. link] servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=

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Who's Building the Social Learning Roads? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

But we need to bring technologists and the learning theorists and researchers together to design the roadmap. Anthony “[hopes] that college educators will adopt this tool as a way to engage the students with technology without having to drastically change their teaching methods.” Anthony is building roads for teachers to drive on.

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Who's Going to Build the Social Learning Roads?

Dashe & Thomson

But we need to bring technologists and the learning theorists and researchers together to design the roadmap. Anthony “[hopes] that college educators will adopt this tool as a way to engage the students with technology without having to drastically change their teaching methods.” Anthony is building roads for teachers to drive on.

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TCC09: Evaluating Social Networking Tools for Distance Learning

Experiencing eLearning

Leave persistent comments (not just IM). Previous research–hard b/c research takes so long. Recommendations from other educators, conferences, etc. Asynchronous education technology course, ongoing action research to improve. Social networks for distance learning. Evaluating social networks.

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No Escaping Mobile Learning – Webinar Recording & Audience Queries Answered

Upside Learning

Q 10: Voting systems have been used in the educational scenario. Q 12: His (Prenski) research focused on a specific class of society in the north hemisphere. A:This is correct, Prenski’s research doesnt include a very large and diverse sample. A: A simple HTML solution can help you overcome those issues. A: You’re right.