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21st Century Skills Assessment: How Ready are Your Students?

Although focused on the school/k-20 sector, eSchool News has developed a resource site of articles on how schools are addressing the issue of the...

Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World

Committee of Inquiry into the Changing Learner Experience (2009) Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World Bristol, UK: JISC/HEFCE, 52 pp. 'Supported by the principal...

Text messaging for collaborative learning in South Africa

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Makoe, M. (2009) MXit: How to Encourage and Facilitate Communication Among Students eLearning Africa Newsletter, May 12 This interview with a professor from the University...

Does technology use improve learning outcomes?

Reynard, R. (2009) Can We Gauge Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes? Campus Technology, March 25 A thoughtful essay in a long line that discusses the...

Empowering education through technology in the k-12/school sector

My web site focuses primarily on post-secondary education, and because of the volume of articles in the k-12/school sector, I rarely post articles about...

Learning in Communities of Inquiry: A Review of the Literature

Rourke, L. and Kanuka, H. (2009) Learning in Communities of Inquiry: A Review of the Literature Journal of Distance Education, Vol. 23, No. 1 From...

The Wisdom of Crowds: The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than...

Surowiecki, J. (2004) The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and...

Does technology change the nature of knowledge?

Purpose of this blog This is the first of three blogs that examine some basic assumptions about technology and education, based on a review of...

Negotiation of meaning and co-construction of knowledge: An experimental analysis of asynchronous online instruction

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Hull, D. and Saxon, T. (2009) 'Negotiation of meaning and co-construction of knowledge: An experimental analysis of asynchronous online instruction' Computers and Education, Vol....

Review of: Gilbert, J. (2005) Catching the Knowledge Wave: the Knowledge Society and the...

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Review of: Gilbert, J. (2005) Catching the Knowledge Wave: the Knowledge Society and the Future of Education Wellington, NZ: New Zealand Council for Educational...