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What BYOD Means for e-Learning. The number of devices that corporate elearning must support is growing at an unprecedented rate.

What BYOD Means for e-Learning

Can e-Learning be useful for Sports? There is a clear paradigm shift in education through the growth of eLearning.

Can e-Learning be useful for Sports?

More schools and industries are pushing learning through the online medium. Is Sports the next player to follow? Check the following article to find out the Top 4 Reasons Why e-Learning is Important for Sports. Whether you are a student, professional, amateur or something in between, you have access to numerous e-learning platforms that offer whatever you’d like to learn. Steal These 5 Social Media Tricks to Engage Your Learners. Social media is now the top Internet activity, according to Business Insider.

Steal These 5 Social Media Tricks to Engage Your Learners

Americans alone spend 114 billion minutes a month on Facebook, plus even more time on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and more. So, why is social media so engaging? How to be an educational blogger - Tom Bennett - Blog - Tom Bennett. The Future Of Mobile Learning With Geoff Stead. In this exclusive interview with Learnnovators, Geoff Stead shares his wonderful insights on how the emerging mobile technologies and capabilities of smart phones could power up mobile learning.

The Future Of Mobile Learning With Geoff Stead

He also shares his advice to learning designers on the techniques to scale up to meet the challenges of designing learning interventions for this ubiquitous learning age. Equally valuable is his advice to organizations who wish to integrate mobile learning with their e-learning strategy to improve productivity! 129 Tips on Using Technology in Virtual and Physical Classrooms. April 22, 2013 Contributing Editor, Karen Forni Technology has expanded the meaning of “classroom” to include any physical or virtual space for formal learning.

129 Tips on Using Technology in Virtual and Physical Classrooms

For educators and designers trained and experienced with the physical classroom, however, virtual classrooms can be daunting. How do you engage students you can’t see? What if someone’s network or Internet connection drops or is slow? VLE. As Scott has blogged, he came to visit us in Cardiff recently, while staying at the OU for a month on a fellowship.

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We had a lot of great chats, and while I failed to convince him of the ways of atheist, reductionist rationalism, I did manage to convert him to my succession metaphor for technology adoption. I used this in my VLE book a while back, and it goes something like this (from the book): IGI Global - Bookstore Title Details. Description The International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments (IJVPLE) provides readers with comprehensive coverage of developments in learning technologies for an international readership of educators, technologists, and trainers.

IGI Global - Bookstore Title Details

The journal is a primary source for academics, professionals, corporate trainers, and policy makers in information and communication technologies. The journal publishes high quality contributions (papers, book reviews) on a range of fields associated with Course Management Systems (CMS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), Virtual Learning Environments (VLE), Social Networking Sites (SNS), Personalized Learning Environments (PLE), and 3D virtual worlds, including for example Second Life (SL). Articles published in the journal cover education and training, concentrating on the theory, application, and development of learning technologies. Journal Contents Search this Journal: Reset Volume 4: 4 Issues (2013) Volume 3: 4 Issues (2012) Mission. Google Apps for Education UK User Group - February 2011, 15th February 2011.

Google App Engine Gets Some Needed Upgrades - ReadWriteCloud. Google App Engine has received some needed upgrades to its service that customers have been asking for over the past several months.

Google App Engine Gets Some Needed Upgrades - ReadWriteCloud

The issues came to a head last week after a developer posted 13 reasons why he and his group decided to drop Google Apps. Some questioned the developer's execution but overall many of the issues have also been noted in the Google Apps discussion boards. Customers have been asking for such things as an increase in the amount of data that can be uploaded in a URL Fetch and an increase in the 30 second limits to upload data. In conversations yesterday, the Google App Engine team said the URL Fetch has been increased from one megabyte to 30 megabytes of data. The 30-second limit is now 10 minutes. Detailed infrastructure upgrades have been needed to make the upgrades.

Added Features Google has also added new features for the platform. Road Map. A bridge to the cloud: Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office now available to early testers. Tens of millions of people have moved to Google Docs because it’s 100% web: it provides real-time collaboration in the browser, with no software to install, manage or upgrade.

A bridge to the cloud: Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office now available to early testers

Of course, we know that many more of you still use Microsoft Office, because until recently, there weren’t many tools to help you collaborate and share with others. Now there’s more choice. Google Apps Migration Case Studies : Cloud Sherpas. Teaching Aides. The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You. 100 Web 2.0 Tools Every Teacher Should Know About 44.24K Views 0 Likes We're always trying to figure out the best tools for teachers, trends in the education technology industry, and generally doing our darnedest to bring you new and exciting ways to enhance the classroom. BagTheWeb. Free ebooks download, free ebooks - KnowFree 2.0. Free and legal music downloads. 5 Great Alternatives To Google Docs You Should Consider.

More and more word processing is moving to the web these days.

5 Great Alternatives To Google Docs You Should Consider

This has many advantages. The documents are accessible from anywhere, they’re open to collaboration and sharing, it’s easy to import and export, and it’s just a better way to do work in this constantly connected world. For a while, one of the most popular solutions has been Google Docs. It’s a great service, and one that has served me well over the months and years I’ve been using it. Google Docs, though, is not without its downsides, some of which have left me in constant search for the best and brightest of the online document managing application. Well, I haven’t found it yet, but I’ve found five pretty great alternatives to Google Docs that you might want to check out. 1.

The world’s most popular office suite also has a free online version. The offering is so good that some people have entirely eschewed purchasing Microsoft Office 2016 in favor of the free online suite. 2.