Archive for the 'e-Learning' Category

Free Online Screen Recording Software; Screenr

Screenr has a lot of potential for online learning. It’s Articulate’s new online screencasting service. Screenr is trendy. It screams Web 2.0—it promotes user-generated content for Twitter, iPhones and web pages, promotes knowledge sharing and it’s entirely in the cloud.
 How It Works;
Screenr works in just a few easy steps,
→ “Sign in using […]

Cons and Pros of Online and Traditional Education

All the people are sure nowadays that the contribution into the education and earning of the university degree is the best investment into the future. People with good educational background and university degrees have better career opportunities and occupy usually more interesting positions. Besides, they earn more. But there are many people who have a […]

Some Ways to Use the iPad for Workspace Learning

After all the hype, which it didn’t quite live up to, there was a lot of commentary web-wide on whether it’s suitable for elearning, or a specific type of learning.
Here are 7 ways in which the iPad will be used in workplace learning. Other ways are, including augmented reality applications.
1. e-Books – will make […]

Designing and Developing e-Learning Interfaces

Back when e-Learning was just text-on-a-page with only “next” and “back” buttons, the only choices you could make were the background color and the font to use. Today, whether you are using a rapid development tool or creating a high-level immersive learning simulation, the look and layout of your e-Learning can have as much or […]

Google Earth on iPhone Future e-Learning Applications

With Google Earth for iPhone, you can:
Tilt your iPhone to adjust your view to see mountainous terrain
Show the Panoramio layer and browse the millions of geo-located photos from around the world
View geo-located Wikipedia articles
Use the Location feature to fly to your current location
Search for cities, places, and business around the […]

Incredible Free Physics App for Kids Education

Phun is a Master of Science Theises by Computing Science student Emil Ernerfeldt for supervisor Kenneth Bodin at VRLab, Umeå University. The solver is based on work by Claude Lacoursière. Which came on e-learning and education world this week.
Phun is meant to be a playground where people can be creative. It can also be […]

Project Pad - web-based media annotation and collaboration

Staying with the Sakai-theme for a bit ( as they presented in tehir facebook com applications presentation), in the Sakai wiki I came across Project Pad from Northwestern University. It is a suite of audio and video annotation tools, including tools to annotate quicktime a/v files, flash movies and mp3 audio streams, still images, and […]

Facebook as an e-learning platform

I heard that, many schools are likely to block access to the Facebook domain on their campus networks
yes it’s possible for facebook to be a major source of distractions.
But why do we stuck with LMS ( learning management system ) ’s?.
Which one a student would choose from registering a borin LMS or using their own […]

Adobe Integrated Runtime and e-Learning

Adobe® AIRTM (formerly known Apollo), is a cross-operating system runtime that allows you to develop
applications for desktop. Your existing development skills and knowledge on HTML,JS,FLASH will be
also working on AIR!
During past five years e-Learning courses stood on the Learning Management Systems and in the browser.
Plus some courses converted to offline versions using third […]

Five key trends shaping e-learning 2.0

At the E-learning Guild Conference there was a lot of discussion about e-learning 2.0. Here are some key points about e-learning 2.0
Patterns
Dynamicness and interoperability
Open source
Social networking and tagging
Self publishing
Related Links:
Stephen Downes - e-learning 2.0.
Wikipedia page on e-learning 2.0.
For […]