A new study from the Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness looks at what makes for successful internet-supported learning. That could be online classes, or just courses that use the internet in a significant way. Their difficult-to-read website offers the full report in PDF, chapter-by-chapter on the web, or a summary version. It’s a bit big to look at right now but…..
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A new short paper in the refereed e-journal, “International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning ” takes on highlighting 6 elements that they suggest make for effective e-learning design. It’s not bad. The abstract…..
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I just read about the Biblioteca d’Alessandria’s P2P application to share scientific papers. It also allows for communication (text chatting) and searching. I’m downloading it now. Across Internet2 this could be very useful. However….
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This blog entry talks about how a junior- and senior-level business course in databases created blogophere around the course. It also highlights some of the advantages of blogs in an educational setting. Some great quotes are….
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I’ve got some reading ahead of me! Educating the Net Generation is more a compilation of articles (like Dede’s I just mentioned). But they look good and I can’t wait to start on them.
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