Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2008 - Grainne Conole
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008This video presentation explores some of the web 2.0 developments and the implications for learning,learners and education.
This video presentation explores some of the web 2.0 developments and the implications for learning,learners and education.
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We’re currently working with the GTC to investigate how the Teacher Learning Academy can be developed and improved by utilising a range of digital resources and tools. It’s a really exciting project as we’ve a chance to really support teachers in their professional learning and development: an area that is key to classroom innovation and the development of new approaches to teaching and learning.
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Research commissioned by JISC and the British Library and carried out by University College London finds that the “Google Generation” is a myth:
“The report by the CIBER research team at University College London claims that, although young people demonstrate an ease and familiarity with computers, they rely on the most basic search tools and do [...]
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Five years after the initial pilot of MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative, it’s now making its way into secondary education with the launch this week of “Highlights for High School,” which aims to bolster high school STEM education through free and open course materials, from complete curricula and syllabi to videos, lecture notes, and animations.
The OpenCourseWare initiative, [...]
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