skip to main | skip to sidebar e-Learning Acupuncture Erics ramblings, experiences and random thoughts about e-Learning, distance education and Educational Technology. technology, are being implemented increasingly in higher education settings. Technology in the Classroom – Hindrance or Help? Technology Training Videos for Teachers ► July (2) Mobile Technology: Bigger than the Internet and th. Thursday, March 08, 2007 Wiki uses at Universities Wikis, a popular Web 2.0 Some UK examples are: University of Bath and University of Wales. Comments? MORE >>

It has four major sections: 1) trends and issues in online learning, 2) examples technology in action in online courses, 3) a brief overview of 25 emerging e-Learning tools that you can use in your teaching, and 4) additional resources for the online teacher. Tags: e-learning tools handbook technology teaching For some teachers, there are misconceptions about the process of teaching online. Some think it’s exactly the same as teaching in the classroom. Well, as a practitioner of both types of teaching I can attest that they are significantly different processes. That’s what I did. MORE >>

I recently attended the SLOAN-C International Symposium on Emerging Technology Applications for Online Learning in San Francisco. It was an intense conference with many fantastic talks. One particularly interesting talk was done by Mary Anne Clark , a Professor of Biology at Wesleyan University in Texas. She started her talk by telling us a story. As an aside, I personally love talks that start with a story because I really value the learning that can come from storytelling.) Mary Anne’s husband would constantly try to convince her to play WoW with her. By the way this is awesome! MORE >>

Type keywords into the search box that you want to monitor such as ‘education’, ‘edtech’, or ‘technology’ and click the checkboxes beside each. Why reinvent the wheel? If you need to use the Internet to do research on a particular topic, you can leverage other people’s research efforts using social media tools (i.e. the stuff of Web 2.0). There are several social media tools that can help you. One example is Twitterfall. Twitterfall allows you to tap into the Twitter data stream without having a Twitter account. No Twitter account is needed. So here’s what it does. Try it. Image credit. MORE >>

I received a great question over the weekend asking if I could “ help finding a good book about technology in post secondary education ” and I had to take a couple of days to think about it. have some fantastic books on the shelf about Instructional Design but I have very few about Educational Technology. Well, I think it is difficult to find a one-stop resource book that describes the best practices in using technology in post-secondary education. So you see the selection of pedagogical tools/strategies (including technological tools) comes second – not first. MORE >>