Thursday, October 3, 2013

Nets Standards

Nets Standards

ISTE products, standards for edtech for students, educators etc. Making online learning real?

Higher education in 2020: three key forecasts from new report | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional

Higher education in 2020: three key forecasts from new report | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional

Premise is that people will drive the changes - not technology.  Interesting description of TNE, MOOC
Conclusion - higher education will become less "bundled" in one institution, the traditional elite universities will loose ground, students will be able to  chose courses from different learning institutions, "free" education will wane - certificates.degrees will be awarded to paying students...

Online Videos Do Not Equal Learning | Learning Outside the LinesLearning Outside the Lines

Online Videos Do Not Equal Learning | Learning Outside the LinesLearning Outside the Lines

simple description of the elements necessary in an online course - video on its own is not enough...

Free Technology for Teachers: Collaboratively Create Multimedia Documents With Lucidpress

Free Technology for Teachers: Collaboratively Create Multimedia Documents With Lucidpress

Like Googledocs but has more choice of layouts...