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!
Sunday, 30 October 2011
Friday, 28 October 2011
UX Mag on Learning Interface Design
Posted on 20:24 by Unknown
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".
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Roundtable on designing interfaces for learning
Posted on 22:00 by Unknown
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
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Learning in Virtual Worlds - 10 year review
Posted on 23:59 by Unknown
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..
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
eLearning environments - embodying the language of the field
Posted on 20:22 by Unknown
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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Tuesday, 16 August 2011
MIT Center for Mobile Learning
Posted on 18:15 by Unknown
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.
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.
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