English is a foreign language for 95% of the world’s children. Yet almost all digital literacy tools for young children are written in English. Mobile learning is therefore out of reach for all but those very few children prepared to start learning a foreign language before they have mastered their own. Isabelle Duston, a self-professed [...]
The number of students with mobile phones is multiplying fast. Top institutions are reacting just as quickly. More than 77% of the world’s population has a mobile phone (1). That is over 5.3 billion people. In Europe, mobile phone penetration has surpassed the 100% mark with 741 million mobile phone subscriptions (2). By 2013, mobile [...]
Join primary school teacher of over 25 years and lover of creative technology Tim Rylands as he talks to podcaster Dom Graveson about his top ICT tips. Whether you’re looking for ways in which ICT can help you get creative, enhance learning or simply to facilitate your daily life, Tim’s A – Z of ICT [...]
What makes a learning culture successful? Are virtual learning tools such as Second Life still relevant for today’s classrooms? And how can practitioners stay ahead of the curve? Ahead of her keynote speech “Evolving a Learning Culture” on Friday 2nd December, Ruth Martínez, an E-Learning consultant and researcher in 3D Virtual Worlds, shares her experiences [...]
In the run-up to ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2011, a series of pre-conference workshops will be held at the Hotel InterContinental Berlin on Wednesday November 30th. Each of these workshops presents a fresh look at ICTs, e-learning, or new learning cultures, and the speakers will be sharing their insight, expertise and research findings. Anyone involved in [...]
Social media and virtual worlds can enhance teaching and facilitate learner engagement, yet the uptake of these tools in the classroom has not been widespread. A number of studies have recently been carried out to discover what prevents teachers from using social media and virtual worlds. The technology is developing fast, are the teachers ready? [...]
The way in which a product or information is presented is a key factor in determining success. Tracking eye movements is a simple way of finding out how well a product appeals to customers. Frequently used in market research, the same techniques work equally well for the designers of learning materials. New technology has been [...]
Students in Finland used virtual reality to walk inside the double helix of a DNA molecule. Pasi Vilpas, a biology teacher at the The Sotunki Distance Learning Centre in Vantaa, invited his pupils to enter the three-dimensional online virtual world of Second Life and walk and fly inside the crucial molecule. In real life, DNA [...]
Electronic books are expected to replace traditional textbooks in universities in two to three years’ time, according to the New Media Consortium’s authoritative Horizon Report, a comprehensive annual study of developments in e-learning. At ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2010, Larry Johnson, CEO of the New Media Consortium, will discuss the very latest findings of the Horizon [...]
The market for English Language Teaching aids is huge and growing rapidly. There are around one billion learners and eleven million teachers of English today. However, with the introduction of smart phones, ebook readers and tablet computer devices such as the iPad, learners’ expectations about how they access and use learning content have changed. But [...]
