Almost everybody today in the “civilized” world has mobile phones, and more and more of these individuals are gaining online access through their phones. Whether you can chat with friends, read your email, or browse the internet, chances are you
As noted, Wikipedia is a learning content gem. Add YouTube and a chat program, and you’ve got something immense—both in potential and digital bandwidth. Here, especially with the use of a chat program, our learning content approaches an interactive model.
I love Wikipedia. I love gathering learning content from many sources, but Wikipedia is my favorite: it’s got many aspects and features that I (as well as many other people) look for in an online learning tool: the learning content
YouTube broke the mold early on. Whether we’re dealing with learning content per se or music videos, YouTube has always been both a site and a mediator of “its” learning content: viewers could go to the web site and watch
Normally, learning content is owned and hosted by an author or institution. When the institution doesn’t own the learning content (e.g. educator’s notes and the learning object) it tends to mediate the content by way of, say, textbooks. Traditionally, it
The main issue seems to be, then, that educators need to become engaged. So how do we get teachers engaged? While many educators desire one-on-one help with an instructor that can teach them how to gain easy access to instructional
