Call for Manuscripts: work-based mobile learning
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on April 22nd, 2009
Call for Manuscripts: work-based mobile learning: concepts and cases
Mobile phones were identified in the Horizon Report (2009) as the technologies with the highest likelihood of entry into the mainstream learning … Issues surrounding mobile learning in work-based contexts have only been marginally covered to date despite the potentially huge impact of mobile technologies on supporting [...]
The myth of the digital generation?
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on February 4th, 2009
Here’s how it goes. Whatever you call them - Gen Y or Z, Millennials, The Net Generation, digital natives - they learn/communicate/think radically differently from previous generations. They have grown up with laptops, mobile phones, digital cameras, hand-held games, global positioning systems, ipods, and DVD players which they use for blogging, social networking, creating and [...]
iTunes U
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on October 16th, 2008
iTunes U makes audio and video podcasts from universities worldwide freely available, and offers teachers the opportunity to expand curriculum and engage students and the wider community. It promises students that they can treat content posted by their professors in the same way as music, movies, and podcasts. “Learning has finally caught up with your [...]
CFP: Apple University Consortium Conference 2009
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on October 14th, 2008
Papers are invited for the AUC conference 2009 which focuses on using Apple technology in the higher education environment. The conference will be held in Canberra in September 2009. The theme for 2009 is ‘You can take it with you.’
Papers will fit into three streams:
Data - Data is all around us, we create, collect, [...]
Open “Tech” Exams
Written by marinaharvey on August 20th, 2008
One school in Sydney is trailing open book exams, where the open “book” can be any technological tool – podcasts on an mp3, internet access via your laptop or a mobile phone. This occurs within a context where sources need to be acknowledged, thereby avoiding plagiarism. See the article in [...]