Mobile Phones are the Future of eLearning in Africa (But Windows Desktops are...
I used to hang out a lot in ETC’s cafeteria, cheap caffeine, food and… free wifi from the hotel across the road meant I stayed for as long as my battery would allow. Inevitably I found myself drawn...
View ArticleEDx Harvard and MIT Explode World’s Largest Ever E-Learning Bomb, But Will it...
M.I.T. and Harvard have joined forces to do what has never been done before, what was previously un-doable. They have torn down the walls of their lecture theatres and given away the course notes....
View ArticleBut Who Are the ‘Poor and Marginalised?’ in the Developing World?
Three million baptisms from the prayers of one man, under God, in the space of fourteen years, in a gospel-resistant region. Pow! Boom! Crack! Having your expectations of ‘normal’ Church growth blown...
View ArticleeLearning Lessons Learned from David Watson & Church Planting Movements: Part...
Why go to a Church planter for advice about making Christian Education available to the poor and marginalised? Well, when one person trains five who plant churches which plant churches…. with 3,000,000...
View ArticleeLearning Lessons Learned from David Watson & Church Planting Movements: Part...
David Watson was made responsible for a people group, a very large one. By the grace of God fourteen years down the line there are 3,000,000 baptised believers in that people group. He is man who’s...
View ArticleeLearning Lessons Learned from David Watson & Church Planting Movements: Part...
David Watson, Church planter, has earned the respect of many through his long career of God-honouring Church planting work in some difficult places. Despite a major setback mid-career he is, by the...
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eLearning Lessons Learned from David Watson & Church Planting Movements: Part...
David Watson plants Churches, very well, and he plants them ‘remotely’ by investing in the education/training/apprenticing of others. He is self-conscious about the ‘product’ he wants and works...
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Book Review: e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for...
e-Learning and the Science of Instruction by Ruth C. Clark and Richard E. Mayer is a must in the library of anyone working in the field of e-Learning. Why Should You Care About This Book? This is the...
View Article‘Hole-In-The-Wall’ Computer Kiosks Foster Mathematics Achievement – Sugata Mitra
In 1999, the ‘hole-in-the wall’ experiment in New Delhi, India, moved the computer out of schools and homes into playgrounds. A computer was connected to the Internet and embedded into a brick wall...
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Gary North on books, videos, and MP3′s
Teachers sell ideas. Anyway, they sell certification for having passed exams on ideas. Authors sell ideas. They have to package their ideas in order to sell them. Books are a familiar for of packaging....
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What is it to be truly “educated” in your field? Five thousand hours or ten...
Malcolm Gladwell, part time hairdresser? and best-selling author of Blink and Tipping Point wants to explode a popular myth, the myth of the self-made man. In his book ‘Outliers: The Story of Success’...
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The Top 100 tools for learning 2010?
I like lists, but I have to admit that anything over ten is almost too much for me :-/ But, Jane Heart is certainly a big noise in eLearning, and this “top 100″ is well worth delving into Here’s a few...
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How do I engage students, market my University and break down institutional...
Tweet? Confused? …read on. Many universities have internal e-mail systems and message boards. But getting students to routinely check these systems for updates can be a chore. As a college teacher...
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Content, Context and Experience, the big picture from an eLearning sage
From Clark Quinn at Learnlets: The cry used to be “content is king”. Then it became “well then, context must be emperor”. Well, I want to tell you that Experience Rules. Here’s the deal. Content is...
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Training (and teaching) like your trainers and teachers is probaby a bad idea...
Why? Because the vast majority of teaching is done in a forced environment, in state-controlled learning institutions which are bent on meeting the mandates on central government, powerful educational...
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Is the Blackberry Playbook just a watermelon? or a serious iPad beater?
Those in the know, like the good people from upsidelearning.com have been disappointed by the iPad as an m-Learning/e-Learning device. They give four solid reasons why they’re not impressed; 1. What...
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Why mobile apps are true eLearning game-changers
That’s what Amit Garg from upsidelearning.com thinks: I think mobile applications are the game changer for training …the shelf life of knowledge and skills is reducing… …the new generation workforce...
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DimDim for education; webconferencing for the 2010′s & Mises Academy
DimDim for education, in their own words… Dimdim is perfect for departments who want to empower educators with their own online classrooms for distance education, tutoring or eLearning, but don’t have...
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Need help in choosing instructional which are right for your eLearning /...
Here are enough resources to make your nose bleed, carefully laid out by the queen of eLearning, Jane Hart. This substantial, comprehensive resource divides learning into; A= authoring tools...
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Integrating technology as a student-learning tool: The “Five J’s” approach
How do you integrate technology into your classroom in the real world? Mary Burns, writing in eLearn Magazine has an answer that works. She calls it the Five J’s and it’s been tried in the U.S. and...
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Trends in Higher Education in the U.K. – Public education is unsustainable...
Education costs money, higher education costs more money. The current paradigm in higher education in the U.K. is 100 percent publicly, that is tax-payer, funded. At least, that’s what I thought, but I...
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How do you scale training when lives depend upon it?
Wycliffe Bible Translators translate the Bible, through the Bible you get to know Jesus who is life and get to know his “way of life” it all about life. Translating requires a whole lot of training....
View ArticleSal Khan, what he does & how he does it, eLearning in Khan-do age :) (video)
Sal Khan’s model of education, it’s a new world, sort-of
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“Flipping the Classroom” Using technology to build a learning community
“Flipping the Classroom” Using technology to build a learning community
View ArticleI am Not Salman Khan – My First Attempt At Doing A Khan
I am not Salman Khan, this probably does not shock anyone, least of all the kind lady who used to tutor me for maths back in the day. But I wasn’t trying to teach maths, I wanted to take Salman Khan’s...
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Good Education Needs Leaders, and Educational Leaders Need to be Scholars,...
The goal of lrnteach.com is to consider good digital education for the poor marginalised. There are many ways to approach this issue, but one important way is to invest in leaders. Leaders in education...
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The Poor & Marginalised Need Leaders, and Leaders Need Books… So, Here’s an...
Leadership in education is vital. Leaders need to be self-directed and capable scholars. They need to to be widely read in in their field. Widely read means access to a good, relevant library. For many...
View ArticleE-Learning in the Developing World, Laptops or Mobiles? Sailing with the Tide
“Many teens and college-age students in the developed world are [2010] dispensing with computers entirely in favor of smartphones...
View ArticleThe Case for Technology in Developing Regions – With E-Learning Comments
The Case for Technology in Developing Regions by; Eric Brewer, Michael Demmer, Bowei Du, Melissa Ho, Matthew Kam, Sergiu Nedevschi, Joyojeet Pal, Rabin Patra, Sonesh Surana, Kevin Fall – thanks for the...
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E-books or Nothing in African Schools?
It’s a fantastic thing to “see” someone learning, to participate as a teacher in a pupil’s lightbulb moment. Perhaps the best education, however, is self-education by means of reading. Reading needs…....
View ArticleRemote Presence: Technologies for ‘Beaming’ Teachers Where They Cannot Go
Full Article Available form the JOURNAL OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN WEB INTELLIGENCE, VOL. 1, NO. 1, AUGUST 2009 Here’s what it’s all about, There are, and will be in the foreseeable future, places on...
View ArticleThere’s More Than One Way to Bury Knowledge
Bury Your Knowledge in a Pile of Books When I open up Calibre, my eBook manager, I am sometimes struck by how rich I am. I have around 28,000 books and articles, which would, of course, be impossibly...
View ArticleRon Paul Curriculum, Students Tell All! (Video Interview)
The Ron Paul Curriculum, it isn’t what you think it is. Two students, Hector and Jada share their experience about transitioning to the curriculum, a day in the life, and their prospects for college. I...
View ArticleFrank Brito: Training the Trainers in Brazil (Theonomic Missions) (Audio)
How do you train the pastors and missionaries in such a huge country as Brazil in a Biblically faithful way? Frank Brito explains all… P.S. give him lots of money… he has his shoulder to the wheel and...
View ArticleFrank Brito: Training the Trainers in Brazil (Theonomic Missions) (Video)
How do you train the pastors and missionaries in such a huge country as Brazil in a Biblically faithful way? Frank Brito explains all… P.S. give him lots of money… he has his shoulder to the wheel and...
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