Onderwijs

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iTunesU goed voor 300 miljoen downloads per jaar

In Nederland zijn er nog niet zo heel veel onderwijsinstellingen die gebruik maken van iTunesU, maar wereldwijd zijn er al meer dan 1.000 universiteiten en hogescholen die video’s, PDF’s en nu ook EPUBs op deze manier beschikbaar stellen. Dat dat niet voor niets is blijkt wel uit de download cijfers. Afgelopen jaar waren er 300 miljoen downloads. De Open Universiteit in […]

Cisco en Smart samen in videoconferencing met digibord

http://youtu.be/rz_3X7OMa6I Het filmpje is al wat ouder (juni 2011), maar omdat het een technologie laat zien die vanzelfsprekend zou moeten zijn (en nog niet is) wil ik hem toch even laten zien. Wat je hier ziet is het gebruik van een digitaal schoolbord van Smart (een Smartboard dus). En in eerste instantie lijkt dat niet zo nieuw/vreemd. Het is al heel […]

ALT-C 2011 Day 3 I Have a Blind Student in My Maths/Science Class, Should I panic?

I’ll admit it: I did not know who Dónal FitzPatrick was when I decided to attend his session. I had read the title: “I Have a Blind Student in My Maths/Science Class, Should I panic? How to promote inclusion for blind students” and found that interesting enough to attend. So when he said that he wasn’t going to use slides during […]

ALTC-2011 Day 2 Can one tool change the culture of an institution?

Dragos Ciobanu, Neil Morris and Alina Secara showed how at the University of Leeds, they are experimenting with Adobe Connect Pro. Here too, they luckily choose to just demonstrate instead of explain in words only. We had received the URL for their Adobe Connect room so anyone with a laptop, iPad, iPhone, Android device could participate during the session. Alina Secara […]

ALT-C 2011 Day 2 The Distributed, Web 2.0 VLE?

In his presentation titled “The Distributed, Web 2.0 VLE? Incorporating External Content Platforms into the Institutional VLE”, Ian Glover from the City University London talked about the advantages/disadvantages of using external tools in combination with the institutional VLE and the work they are doing to help staff use these external tools. Advantages of using these tools are there are many good […]

ALT-C 2011 – Day 1 Unlocking the Hidden Curriculum

The “Best Performance of the First Day of ALT-C 2011d”-award goes without a doubt to Dale Porter from the University of Exeter. Although I’ve seen (and used) plenty of examples of Augmented Reality both using markers and without markers (for example using Layar), I really liked the way he presented the example. He used one of the participants to perform a […]