11 December 2007
Tomorrow’s Professor Blog is:
A partnership between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University to create a forum for comments and discussion about articles from the Tomorrow’s Professor Mailing List and about general issues concerning higher education.
The blog and the associated mailing list seems to be aimed at science and engineering graduates embarking on an [...]
5 November 2007
Moblearn is a blog about mobile learning from Geoff Stead of Tribal CTAD who has been working in the area for a number of years. Worth keeping an eye on. There’s also an interview with him about an early m-learning project on the Ferl website.
2 November 2007
Schome (not school — not home — schome) is a project which is exploring the use of virtual worlds to support learning amongst teenagers.
The main focus of work on schome is currently on the use of Teen Second Life to give people ‘a lived experience’ of radically different models of education.
You can also read about [...]
2 November 2007
A brief article outling some of the potential benefits (and drawbacks) of Learning & Teaching in Second Life.
2 November 2007
In Brown backs ‘personal’ learning the BBC reports a speech by Gordon Brown to the Labour Party annual conference in which he backs increased provision of ‘personal’ learning within schools. Learning personal to each pupil — educational available to all, not one —size fits all, but responding to individual needs.
21 October 2007
Despite only being in a closed alpha testing phase Metaplace has already spawned a host of unofficial fan sites set up by gamers and developers to help each other make the most of it, including a facebook group and a developer wiki.
14 October 2007
Duncan Riley at Techcrunch talks about using Twitter to hook up with other people for an impromptu meeting in Second Life. It sounds a whole lot more engaging than the average telephone conference call.
29 September 2007
The SEA do mobile services development, including a mobile learning platform called OOKL.
You can also read their blog.
27 September 2007
GigaOm reports that Raph Koster’s new project Metaplace has finally gone public.
27 September 2007
A report from the Telegraph from early 2005 apparently about the same research from the Institute of Education as reported by the Times and the BBC.