Upside2Go, available for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android devices, brings formal and informal learning and performance support to one central platform: mobile. It can work with or without an LMS and…
Day: December 12, 2013
TOOLS: Interactive Teaching
The Blackboard Mobile Learn platform takes interactive teaching and learning mobile, giving students and educators access to their courses, content and organizations on a variety of devices including iOS, Android,…
CONTENT: New MOOC in English, German
The MOOC (massive open online courses) platform OpenCourseWorld from IMC AG offers free, open online courses. The programs are available to students, company employees and private individuals. The learning content…
Is College I.T. Funding Swinging Up Again?
In 2010, an Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR) study on I.T. funding and cost management found evidence of funding decreases in I.T. budgets from 2007-08 to 2009-10. In that…
Do MOOCs Have Few ‘Active’ Users?
Data from a University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) study show that massive open online courses (MOOCs) have relatively few active users, that user “engagement” falls off…
Top Educational Products of 2013
Academics’ Choice has announced the winners of the 2013 Academics’ Choice Awards, a prestigious seal of educational quality, reserved only for the best mind-building media and toys. The independent Academics’…