Archive for the ‘Learning (general)’ Category

Shigeru Miyagawa recently shared his work on online education projects at MIT.

You can't just dump laptops on unsuspecting students (or teachers) and expect learning miracles.

What is the difference between "training" and "education" and "entertainment"? Where does the concept of "measurable objectives" fit in with e-learning?

The Sydney CBD is to get free WiFi broadband connectivity sometime in the next 3 years. But Singapore's is already happening and it will go island-wide by Sep 2007.

The development of Firefox has been a collaborative affair using a wiki to keep track of it all.

IBM is showing the way in developing a knowledge creation organisation using the Web - and it has implicaitons for education.

I have been playing with the immersive, multi-player environment Second Life, and I was impressed. This has many exciting learning possibilities.

Wetpaint is an interesting variation on the wiki concept with an easy to use set of editing tools. It has a lot of potential for content creation by students.

Abe Shinzo, the new prime minister of Japan, has continued Koizumi's weekly email magazine. This week, Abe talks about education reform.

Futurelab has an interesting article about Learner Voice, that advocates an organised and institutionalised requirement to listen to learners.