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Vancouver showcase of online learning innovations available on video

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The Justice Institute of British Columbia and Vancouver Community College hosted an 'online showcase' on November 30, 2011, sponsored by the Metro Vancouver Educational...

E-learning in 2011: a retrospective

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'That was the year that was, it's over, let it go...', as the old song says. But before it does go, let's look back...

Posts from a foreign land: Online Educa 2011, No. 2: Corporate Learning ( #oeb11...

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Introduction I realise that there's only one thing more 'dead' than yesterday's newspaper and that's yesterday's conference, so I apologise for the gap of two...

IRRODL’s new issue on emergent learning

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IRRODL, Vol. 12, No. 7, 2011: Special Issue: Emergent Learning, Connections, Design for Learning The guest editors, Rod Sims and Elena Kays have collected together a...

From dream to reality: why implementation is as important as goal setting in e-learning

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Two recent developments have brought home clearly the need to consider and discuss implementation strategies at the same time as setting educational goals. The...

Book review: Clark Quinn’s ‘The Mobile Academy’

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Quinn, C. (2012) The Mobile Academy: mLearning for Higher Education San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/John Wiley, 120 pp The author points out that 90% of the world's...

European report on the future of learning

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Redecker, C. et al. (2011) The Future of Learning: Preparing for Change Seville Spain: Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, JRC, European Commission What the report...

The Victoria, Australia website on iPads for Learning

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I am making two exceptions with this post. I don't normally cover k-12 (too large an area and too different from post-secondary education), and...

Journal of Learning Design: Vol. 4, No. 4, 2011

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The latest edition of the Journal of Learning Design is now available. From the editorial: This issue presents six papers from a wide range of disciplines...

MOOC: #Change 11- Change: Education, Learning and Technology

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George Siemens, Stephen Downes and Dave Cormier have been running this Massive Open Online Course now for five weeks. A MOOC is being facilitated by...