Posted by: Keith Aquilina on: July 22, 2009
Think about your own learning – the resources and tools you use, where and when it takes place 1. What is your experience of being a learner? I have been learning formally( and informally) without any long break from primary schooling to date. In formal learning different contexts, environments, peer students and teachers have given [...]
Posted by: Keith Aquilina on: July 16, 2009
Report available: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08204/nsf08204.pdf Following are some main points extracted from this report; Report’s scope work spans the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and the social, behavioral, and economic sciences as they intersect with education and the learning sciences. The arts and humanities are outside the scope of this report. Focus of report is [...]
Posted by: Keith Aquilina on: June 18, 2009
TLRP-TEL 2008 Report Education 2.0? Designing the Web for Teaching and Learning Crook mentions ‘virtualisation of exchange practices’. I may say that what is done in the real world is nowadays imitated in the virtual world. This is possible because web 2.0 innovations allow interaction, collaboration and sharing. Whilst reading Carr’s ‘Learning and virtual worlds’ [...]
Posted by: Keith Aquilina on: May 13, 2009
LEX project This project focuses on both formal and informal learning. The study focused on three main issues: characteristics of effective elearners beliefs and intentions strategies for effective elearning. “The findings demonstrate that technologies are now core to students’ learning.” “Students made extensive use of personally owned technologies including mobile phones, laptop computers, personal digital [...]