Description: Articles about Web 2.0 applied to Education, e-Learning 2.0, University 2.0. More resources: Universidad 2.0, Web Educativa 2.0. Proudly improved thanks to Biblioteca 2.0 and Cristian Cabezas. The origin of this reader was preparing my speech The Web 2.0 and the role of the University at UOC UNESCO Chair in Elearning Fourth International Seminar: Web 2.0 and Education.
Levin, D., & Arafeh, S. (2002). The digital disconnect: The widening gap between Internet-savvy students and their schools (Pew Internet and American Life Project). Washington, DC: American Institutes for Research.
The content and technology are continually changing. This article reminds us that learners are also changing. For the past decade, faculty who won awards for teaching expressed concern that they could no longer hold the attention of their students. John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist at Xerox and director of its Palo Alto Research Center, hired 15 year olds to design future work environments and learning environments. He observed that the students did not conform to the traditional image of learners as permissive sponges. It requires us to rethink and redesign education for the Digital Age.
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Our own Logan Smalley and Darius on the Today Show!
.LRN is the world's most widely adopted enterprise-class open source software for supporting e-learning and digital communities.
Originally developed at MIT, .LRN is used worldwide by over half a million users in higher education, government, non-profit, and K-12.
Logan Smalley's "Darius Goes West." This is a teaser for the documentary of a student with muscular distrophy who travels across the country.
How learning in the classroom is changing and why Professor Chris Dede and his team are on a non-crusade to figure out how all of the pieces fit together.
On WiZiQ, teachers and learners can connect live anywhere in the world from home using our virtual classroom software. Inside the virtual classroom you share an interactive synchronized collaborative environment where you can communicate with each other on one-to-one basis using microphone, chat and share whiteboard (similar to blackboard in the classroom), presentation and documents.
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We have been working on developing documentation for MOODLE for learners and instructors. This documentation project is focused on delivering a number of tutorial videos which explain some of the key features of MOODLE. As new videos become available they will be linked here.