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Mobile? at Manchester College

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Mobile? Learning at Manchester College.
The LSC will allocate a further £2.5m to continue to support the mobile learning in Further Education and Skills project ,MoLeNet for another year to add to the £12m spent in 2007/8.
Despite the crisis in the LSC capital funding the MoLeNet project goes from strength to strength industry and education members [...]

Don’t ban it…use it!

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Most of our schools and colleges ban Youtube but is there another way? Edutopia think so…..
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-youtube-teaching-video

California lead the way?

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

It seems text books are heading the way as scrolls,quills and cave drawings?
I wonder if vernon Coaker,the new schools minister will be as brave as Arnie?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8090450.stm

Higher Education and Web 2.0

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

“Learners expectations rising” says Committee of Inquiry in Higher Education
Pupils expectations of how they will learn using digital technologies are putting additional pressure on Colleges and Universities so that they can keep up with the “Google Generation” according to a report launched this week by Professor David Melville,Chair of the Committee of Inquiry into [...]