Archive for the ‘ Digital Learning ’ Category

CourseSmart Launches First Mobile Web App For eTextbooks

Technology and education coming together to make college students smarter, faster, better! I’m so excited I can barely keep my pants on![ READ MORE ]

Is Technology Just A Tool?

The technology we create for ourselves, ostensibly to make our lives easier/better/faster, seems always to impact more than just the job it was created for. I’m talking about wheels and looms, satellites and cotton gins, not Silly Putty and Flowbees. [ READ MORE ]

OCW Consortium Partners with Leading Community College Consortium, CCCOER, to Expand Access to Open Education

Remember the OpenCourseware Consortium folks? They’re awesome in their wielding of powers for good. They make online courseware available to educators and students everywhere. The newest project is partnering with community colleges[ READ MORE ]

CourseSmart Research Reveals College Students Lerve Their Digital Devices

The findings further reveal that students are completely dependent on technologies—eReaders, Smartphones, laptops and more—to get through their daily college routine. Nearly all of the students surveyed (98%) own a digital device. And 38% of students surveyed said that they could not go more than 10 minutes without checking in with their tech device—about the same amount of time it takes to walk to class[ READ MORE ]

Free Resources for Teaching Earthquakes and Tsunamis

Educator Richard Byrne likes to point out Free Technology for Teachers. He has a timely list of three resources for teaching students about earthquakes and tsunamis. Sometimes understanding what the hell happened helps everyone feel a little better. Posted by Alexa Harrington[ READ MORE ]

50 Open Courseware Classes for Teachers

Are you an awesome teacher with too much time on your hands? If you answered, “That’s not even possible!” then you’ve at least got the Awesome Teacher gene[ READ MORE ]

NY Times Knowledge Network Announces Spring 2011 Schedule

The New York Times Knowledge Network has announced its Spring 2011 schedule. If you're planning to add Learn More Stuff! to your New Year's resolutions, I think the NY Times has you covered[ READ MORE ]

Six Revisions’ Tutorial on Saving Images for the Web

Check out Six Revisions’ Comprehensive Guide to Saving Images for the Web[ READ MORE ]

Plagiarism Confuses the Information Generation

Plagiarism, for those of you who missed that day in class, is when you take someone else’s work and falsely claim it as your own. It’s very bad, and it makes you look like an ass@$%*[ READ MORE ]

100 Awesome Business Blogs

It’s like a goldmine of information for MBA do-it-yourselfers. [ READ MORE ]