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.
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Monday, 1 August 2011
"Do Lecture" - Games as teachers
Posted on 21:41 by Unknown
See Alice Taylor, Channel 4 Education Commissioner discuss "How games can become teachers".
This lecture is part of the "Do Lectures" series which is kind of like the TED lectures gone camping.
Their beautifully art directed website explains: "Ideas + Energy = Change" and hosts talks from activists, designers and technologists the likes of Tim Berners-Lee.
This lecture is part of the "Do Lectures" series which is kind of like the TED lectures gone camping.
Their beautifully art directed website explains: "Ideas + Energy = Change" and hosts talks from activists, designers and technologists the likes of Tim Berners-Lee.
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Learning stages for User Experience Design
Posted on 16:34 by Unknown
What a delighter to find my weekly helping of "A list Apart" this morning came topped with the title "UX for Learning". A List Apart is an impeccably produced online publication from the makers of some of the industry's best websites and books on websites. The latest post by Tyler Tate shows that Learning is beginning to slide its foot in the door with a larger design audience.
Tate
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Turn to the sherpa
Posted on 22:01 by Unknown
Check out this highly informative, expertly crafted (and so pretty it's like dessert) new web publication: The Web Standards Sherpa. "Journeying towards best web practices." Everything here can be applied to the design of web-based learning environments.
Thursday, 14 July 2011
HTML 5 for learning interfaces
Posted on 20:34 by Unknown
The global design scene has been nutty for the promise of HTML 5 for a while now, but can we use it for building elearning activities today? Find out in the recent trial and report published by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework...
The Interactive e-learning using HTML5 trial just released a report that shows how 5 online learning activities, originally created in flash, could be
Saturday, 2 July 2011
Time management principle for design
Posted on 17:27 by Unknown
Design is about details. But then it's also about deadlines. As such, I have developed this tenet to keep me focused...
"I vow to cultivate the discipline to not spend time on the details that don't matter, the patience to spend time on the details that do, and the professionalism to know the difference."
Thus today I will not double proofread my chats, or spend hours crafting email witticisms
"I vow to cultivate the discipline to not spend time on the details that don't matter, the patience to spend time on the details that do, and the professionalism to know the difference."
Thus today I will not double proofread my chats, or spend hours crafting email witticisms
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Clark Quinn on Educational Games
Posted on 22:22 by Unknown
Clark Quinn, author of Engaging Learning: designing e-learning simulation games recently gave a masterclass in Sydney. He introduced categories of educational games, how they differ from scenarios and simulations, and made suggestions for how they can best be used for learning.
Although the information he shared is primarily for instructional designers of elearning, rather than for interface
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