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Who personalises learning? The learners of course  
Forums, quizzes and a wide range of online collaborative activities helped support children as self-directed learners. But the key lessons from Ranvilles transcend ICT and the infant age group too, and lie at the heart of learning - because Ranvilles’ quest had been to re-energise the curriculum, with the children at the centre... Read more >>
My-E  
My-E (My Education) is a prototype online visual environment that can support very young students to explore and express their own personal learning experiences, interests and aims... Read more >>
Mediating the Tensions of Online Learning with Second Life  
The authors posit that a multiuser virtual environment such as Second Life offers a valuable medium for enhancing and enriching online education because it meets human needs for belonging, esteem, and self-actualization... Read more >>
Understanding the Net Generation's Texts  
Mark Mabrito and Rebecca Medley explore the nature of Net-Generation texts as a reflection of the cognitive differences between this generation's students and their older instructors... Read more >>
Making the Online Classroom a Learning Organization  
Learning organizations are proficient at two types of learning: "adaptive" learning and "generative" learning. To survive, an organization must solve short-term problems. This is the realm of adaptive learning. But, what sets learning organizations apart from other institutions is generative learning. Generative learning enhances the capacity to create... Read more >>
The Power of Wikis in Higher Ed  
In this first half of a two-part interview, Mader talks about powerful ways to use wikis in education, content ownership issues, and how wikis tend to be used--and why... Read more >>
Low-cost laptop experiment under way  
Some critics wonder whether a computer initially designed for children in poor, rural parts of the world--and primarily using its own non-Windows operating system--is the right learning tool for students who eventually will seek to join the general computing population in the U.S... Read more >>
Harnessing Technology: Next Generation Learning  
A summary of Becta's review and revision of the original e-strategy to ensure that we are meeting the requirements of today's learners...
Government says technology in learning is no longer optional  
Learners of all ages need the chance to use technology to support their learning said Jim Knight MP, Department for Children, Schools and Families, as he launched the revised Harnessing Technology Strategy today... Read more >>
PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES AND PERCEIVED LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS IN EFL WRITING CLASSES  
This study employs a naturalistic classroom-based approach to explore the interaction between how an AWE program, MY Access!, was implemented in three different ways in three EFL college writing classes in Taiwan and how students perceived its effectiveness in improving writing... Read more >>
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