Learning Environments for the 21st Century

Award winning classroom in Tokyo.
Credit: ScarletGreen 

"Learning environments for the 21st century",  chapter 2 in a new book on educational facilities released by the OECD gives you a few glimpses into the historical evolution of the classroom and looks at what education will need by way of learning space in the 21st century.  Although it's about physical space, author Christian Kühn makes

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Crowd-sourced filmmaking

It's not too late to join an amazing adventure:  CrowdTV, whose first project is a group-created documentary film that anyone can take part in by writing parts of the script, submitting ideas, graphics or audio, and then voting on the ideas you like best!  The concept and title have already been selected democratically.  If you earn enough contribution points you get an Assistant Producer credit!

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UX Mag on Learning Interface Design

The folks at UX Magazine have agreed it's the right time to put Learning Interface Design into the spotlight.  See the article "Say hello to Learning Interface Design".

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Roundtable on designing interfaces for learning

Join in the upcoming Learning Technology Research Fest - an energizing and informal free event in Sydney that brings together people at the cutting edge of learning technology research. There are two roundtables on learning interfaces this year, including one (which I will be chairing) called "Designing Interfaces for Learning: Towards best practice in the multimedia design of educational

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Learning in Virtual Worlds - 10 year review

Photo credit: Torley

What have we learned in the last ten years about learning in 3D virtual environments?   Are they worth the significant resources required to build them?  Do students learn better in them, and how do teachers feel about them?  Mikropoulos and Natsis conducted a review of the research over the last decade to help us find out.  Here is an informal summary of their findings..

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eLearning environments - embodying the language of the field

How often is the content for an eLearning experience written to specifically embody the language, values and philosophies of the discipline that is being learned?  Dr. Lucila Caravalho of the CoCo Research Centre presented her work in this area looking at informal learning in the fields of engineering and design, and there were lessons to be learned for Learning Interface Designers...




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MIT Center for Mobile Learning

MIT is launching a new Centre for Mobile Learning as part of their world-renowned MIT Media Lab.  The centre sprung from Hal Abelson's work with Google on the educational tool App Inventor which allows anyone to create apps for Android mobile phones.  These guys will certainly be worth keeping an eye on.

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