Greenflame

Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand

Category: eLearning/Distance

  • Ministry of Education’s new e-learning support site. See enabling e-Learning – enabling eLearning Hat tip to: Derek at Core-Ed: New online ICT-related education hub launched

  • Clearing out various links – here are some related to education. Blog U.: 10 Guidelines for Running Synchronous Web Teaching Sessions – Technology and Learning – Inside Higher Ed How to add EPUB books to your Kindle, take advantage of Google’s massive free library « Ernesto Burden Tweeting Students Earn Higher Grades Than Others in…

  • Seeing as how questions about how course management systems and learning management systems relate to teaching in the university crop up all the time at work, I’ll be taking some time to look at this article: Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems affect teaching by Lisa M. Lane First Monday, Volume 14, Number 10 –…

  • This looks interesting digital nation – life on the virtual frontier | PBS Digital Nation is a new, open source PBS project that explores what it means to be human in an entirely new world — a digital world. It consists of this Web site as well as a major FRONTLINE documentary to be broadcast…

  • A couple of times I’ve found it useful to use Marc Prensky’s concepts of the digital native and digital immigrant to make points in things I’ve written. As one reviewer noted of one of these pieces, these are helpful concepts but can’t be realized as absolute categories, which I agree with entirely. The adoption or…