Public lecture, Monday 16 August 2010, in Room 119 of the John Goodsell Building (Level 1) School of Education, University of New South Wales http://education.arts.unsw.edu.au/news-and-events/public-lecture-insights-into-students-thinking-with-handheld-computers-570.html Abstract The impact of the handheld computer (PDA) as a motivational learning tool has been described in numerous articles. As a pedagogical tool, it has the capacity to enable students [...]
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Insights into students’ ‘thinking’ with handheld computers
August 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Announcements, Bb staff announcements, Bb student announcements, Learning & teaching, Research, Tools & applications
The world is open
July 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Events, Learning & teaching, TELT news, Trends
Thanks to Stephan Ridgway from TAFE Sydney Institute for recording and editing last week’s presentation by Dr Curtis Bonk titled “The Flat World has Swung Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education”. The session recording is long but an excellent introduction to the current state of e-learning internationally. It covers Curt’s recently released book of [...]
Acknowledging and supporting TELT practice
January 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Research, Tools & applications, Trends
Two 2009 publications from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework are an interesting point of reference as we roll out both TELT and a SOE here at UNSW. The documents grew out of work by the Framework in 2007-2008 which identified that within the VET sector, appropriate access to computer networks and across firewalls is a [...]
Tags:elearning·firewalls·SOE·VET·webfiltering
e-Dayz09 : Moodle, community, capacity, content and more
November 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Events
While NSW revs up for its annual eLearning09 event described in my last post, South Australia is in recovery mode! I managed to hook in to some of the live stream of the eDayz09 event last week while propped up in bed with the flu (!!) , and I can highly recommend the sessions I [...]
Tags:conference·edayz09·elearning·event
eLearning09 event
November 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Events
The annual Australian Flexible Learning Framework conference for NSW is coming up, and while designed for Vocational Education and Training promises to once again offer a range of relevant TELT related sessions and workshops that may be of interest to UNSW staff. eLearning09 will be held in Sydney from 7-8 December 2009 at a cost [...]
Exploring e-Innovations 09: online conference
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Events
Registrations are now open for the Exploring e-Innovations 09 online conference to be held on 4-5 November 2009 It’s sponsored by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework; a free online conference showcasing some of the latest innovations in e-learning from around Australia. The focus will be on flexible e-learning outcomes developed through industry, registered training organisation [...]
Learning at the Speed of Mobile
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Events
And yet another FREE event coming up … The MobilizeThis 2009 symposium is on this Friday 30 October, both face to face and online. This years theme, ‘Learning at the Speed of Mobile’ which will showcase examples of where mobile-related learning concepts interface with popular learning design. Presentations will include (NT time): 9 am – [...]
Tags:cdu·elearning·event·mobilelearning
Finding your voice
October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Resources
I’ve been exploring how the Wimba Voice tools might be embedded into wikispaces this week and my investigations took me to two 2005 resources from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework, which while Vocational Education and Training (VET) oriented contain sound messages for anyone seeking to utilise voice technologies in their teaching practice. The first, Different [...]
Tags:elearning·mentor·mentoring·professionaldevelopment·telt·voice
ALT-C conference UK, and what’s happening with Blackboard …
October 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Learning & teaching, UNFED
UNFED notes 30.09.09 ALT-C Carol Russell from Engineering was recently in the UK for the annual ALT-C conference (not to be confused with Australia’s ALTC…) Keynotes were by Michael Wesch (see his ‘Vision of Students Today’ video), Martin Bean (VC OU) and Terry Anderson (Athabasca University, Canada). There are links to their recorded talks on [...]
Toolkits for Learning
September 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Tools & applications
You may be interested to peruse the 2009 Top 100 Tools for Learning published by the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. The list is based on votes from a range of elearning professionals world-wide. You can see 10 of the individual voting lists here. I have to say I was surprised to see Twitter [...]
Tags:elearning·technology·tools
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