Big thanks to the crew from GeekFest Dubai for the chance to speak last week. The crowd is super-switched-on and made for a great – and intimidating – group to present to that night. With so many people who really ‘get’ stuff you know that you have a great chance to really spark some interesting discussion and get some amazing input on your ideas. That said, the flip side is that this is also the group that will quickly see through your crap if you don’t bring your A-preso.
For those learning online, they are gaining valuable contextual experience that they can use in their careers. It only the beginning… Employer Brand Building 2.0
eLearn: In Depth Tutorials – Designing and Developing E-learning Projects: A Three-Tiered Approach link The linked article is an excerpt from the forthcoming book The E-learning Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Online Learning (Pfeiffer, 2008), edited by Saul Carliner and Patti Shank…very interesting read for anyone designing – or improving – an elearning project.
It’s certainly not news to anyone that you can take a MBA degree online these days. Increasingly, schools are offering such programs as a flexible alternative for professionals who are either working and cannot afford a study break or who want to study at schools far from their city, country or continent. Its difficult to…
Drupal allows bloggers, small-business owners, corporations, communities, web developers and programmers to develop Internet environments that allow the integration, publishing and management of integrated content on a website. Because Drupal is open-source, there are a variety of add-ins that allow for a wide-range of application integrations. The guys at Funky Monkey (tools for teachers) have launched a social learning…
Oh the tangled web…one site led to another and to another until I came across an open source webcasting/conferencing tool that seems to be a great step forward to facilitating educational dissemination of information, lessons by distance, rich online presentations and provide the visual element to support cross-cultural/linguistic interaction. ePresence is excellent because it allows…