"Connectivism and Connective knowledge: The Furture of Education and Training" is starting on 7 September 2008 and will be running for approx. 3 months. So spread the word and if you have the time (of course you have), join!

Alan Levine reflects on his experience attending an online seminar : “I recently felt like this wistful gal during a recent online seminar- isolated, lonely, and wishing to go outside and play. Like a horrendously designed PowerPoint, no one sets out with a plan of creating a deadly dull online seminar, but they seem to happen often enough.” With nose-diving budgets and more work moving online, it’s time to raise the bar on how we run online events. Like 8221; The

yesterday a new scope seminar started on personal learning environments . and an online conference on the future of education started at the University of Manitoba. all this accessable knowledge... viva We

This seminar is part of the free educational seminars that are organized by ScoPE. This seminar interests me because it will focus on exclusion of cultural diverse groups from traditional education and hopefully deliver a (set of) methodology that arrises from those groups, which will in its turn, include learners from diverse groups in (online) learning that is breaking out of traditional education. This content interests me not only from my professional point of view (in a big part of the world oral tradition and learning are the norm and have been proven very helpful for delivering

During the seminar on S ocial Media – Benefits for researchers I facilitated on SCoPE all the participants discussed the following topics: Are you a social media sceptic or evangelist? Which lead to a discussion on the definition of social media. Most of the participants were partly sceptic and evangelist. The evangelists

SCoPE has invited me to facilitate a seminar on Social Media - Benefits for Researchers for which I am very grateful. The seminar begins this Wednesday May 7 and runs up until May 18, 2008. If you have ideas of your own or ideas that could stimulate the forum, please send them to me or join the seminar (it is free, you only need to register for SCoPE - also free - and then you can join all the ongoing seminars). SCoPE brings together individuals If you have ideas on the topic, mail them or join! Short description : Social media provides opportunities to socialize,

The SCoPE seminar on social media benefits for researchers is going smoothly with lots of input from different eLearning experts. So if you have any thoughts on: research should ALWAYS be OPEN to the public at every stage! Net-etiquette is crucial to make or break Web2.0! How would you subdivide social media apps with eLearning and/or research in

Anyhow, Stanford Online has great new online graduate level engineering seminars which will cost you nothing except your time. AA-297: Seminar in Guidance, Navigation, & Control CS-547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar EE-380: Seminar Spring is here ... sort of (20 inches of new snow today at my cabin in Northern Minnesota).

I'm in Chicago through Tuesday for the eLearning Guild's Summer Seminar Series. More specifically, I'm attending the Collaborative Learning workshop . As described on the Guild's website: Join Mark Oehlert and Brent Schlenker for a comprehensive look at Web2.0 technologies impacting the learning landscape of YOUR organization.

Here is a list of online games and related items that I presented at the Fall 2009 Business Teacher Seminar in Grantville, PA. Hotshot Business Game (Created by Disney) Design Considerations for a Cell Phone (at Edheads.org) Explore environmental and business impact with Energyville (by Cheveron) Download educational objects on topics of Business, Accounting, Entrepreneurship and many related topics at WISC-Online (Wisconsin Online Resource Center) For up to sixth grade check out Planet Orange for financial information and advice (sponsored by ING Direct) Brainpop is also