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Computer Animation at “Full Sail”

Recognized as one of the top universities for entertainment and media arts Full Sail University was founded in 1979 , is located in Orlando in the USA, but offers many of its programs online presenting itself as an innovative educational leader for those pursuing careers in the entertainment industry. The  unique online education platform is [...]

Flash Tutorial: Simple Drop Down Menu using Actionscript

The Adobe® Flash® Platform is an integrated set of technologies surrounded by an established ecosystem of support programs, business partners, and enthusiastic user communities. Together, they provide everything you need to create and deliver the most compelling applications, content, and video to the widest possible audience. ActionScript is a scripting language based on ECMAScript. ActionScript [...]

World Wide Workshop: Social Media Technology & Learning

The World Wide Workshop Foundation is a non-profit educational organization founded in 2004 to enhance technological skills among children and youth in economically-disadvantaged communities worldwide. One of the goals of the Foundation is to use social media technologies and gaming to bring educational changes. The main programs are My Global Life (MyGLife. Org), My Science [...]

WMUTE 2010 conference in Taiwan

The 6th IEEE international conference on wireless, mobile and ubiquitous technologies in education (WMUTE 2010) started today in Kaohsiung – Taiwan. Under the theme: “Mobile social media for learning and education in formal and informal settings” and for 5 days, this conference is based on shared research interests between the two communities, IEEE WMUTE (International [...]

Learn Business English through a podcast

Business English Pod provides free weekly MP3 podcast ESL lessons and audio / e-Book courses for intermediate and advanced business English learners. Each business English podcast lesson is focused on a particular workplace English skill (meetings, presentations, telephoning, negotiating, socializing, travel, conversation etc.) and language function (clarifying, disagreeing, questioning, expressing opinions, persuasion etc.). You may [...]

The Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research

The Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research – CIDER – is a research initiative coordinated from the Centre for Distance Education at Athabasca University – Canada’s Open University.  The CIDER Website is an online self-managed research community with a shared domain of interest in distance education research. Within this research community, members have the opportunity [...]

Educational affordances of the iPad according to Tony BATES

For a very quick and preliminary review of possible educational uses or affordances of the Apple iPad, see Elliott Masie’s 10 minute video at: http://www.ipadlearninglab.com/ (Thanks to Clayton R. Wright for bringing this to my attention – from Sierra Leone!) It would be a good idea to keep an eye on the Masie web site [...]

The sustainable MBA

The traditional Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree requires coursework and other study of business from a primarily financial standpoint, with attention to management, conventional economic theory, and to business ethics. A sustainable MBA program adds the study of managing for environmental and social sustainability to these subjects. Such programs are sometimes also called Green MBAs. “The Sustainable MBA: The Manager’s Guide to Green [...]

The eLearning Africa conference

The fifth International conference that focuses on information and communication technologies (ICTs) applied to development, education and training in Africa will be held in Lusaka, Zambia from May 26th to 28th. Best known as e-learning Africa, this event serves as a platform to pan-African needs, and is the main gathering of eLearning and Distance education [...]