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...
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...
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...
Review of: Gilbert, J. (2005) Catching the Knowledge Wave: the Knowledge Society and the...
Review of: Gilbert, J. (2005) Catching the Knowledge Wave: the Knowledge Society and the Future of Education Wellington, NZ: New Zealand Council for Educational...
3 Challenges (with Benefits) to Wiki Use in Instruction
Reynard, R. (2009) '3 Challenges (with Benefits) to Wiki Use in Instruction' Campus Technology, 11 Feb
An excellent article on designing effective use of wikis...
Technology Enhanced Active Learning
Rimer, S. (2009) At M.I.T., Lectures are Going the Way of the Blackboard, New York Times, Jan 12
A description of how the Massachusetts Institute...
How online courses help classroom teaching
Wong, M. (2008) Why online education works! UBC's e-Strategy Newsletter, November 6
Professors reflect on how teaching fully online distance courses helps their on-campus classes.
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Effective peer interaction in a problem-centred instructional strategy
Merrill, M.D. and Gilbert, C. (2008) ‘Effective peer interaction in a problem-centred instructional strategy’ Distance Education Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 199-207
Distance Education
Distance Education (2003) Vol. 23, No. 1 (collaboration in distributed problem-based learning environments)
An exploration of students’ strategy use in inquiry-based computer-supported collaborative learning
Salovaara, H. (2005) ‘An exploration of students’ strategy use in inquiry-based computer-supported collaborative learning’ Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Vol. 21, pp. 39-52