Learning Technologies @ UBC, 2005 (8 mins)
A vision for teaching and learning with technology in higher education
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The next group are ‘statements’ about the challenge we face as teachers in the 21st century:

A vision of students today (5 mins)
Michael Wesch and Kansas State University

Academia 2.0 (10 minutes)
Another from Michael Wesch and Kansas State University: a good statement of the challenge

Education Today and Tomorrow (2 mins 30 secs)
Sets use of educational technology within the needs of 21st century work

The iPhone in a university setting (approximately 15 minutes)
A vision from Abilene Christian University on the use of the iPhone for teaching and learning

Education 2.0 (7 mins 19 secs)

Carlos Morales Socorro talks about the relationship between IT and problem-based learning (Spanish, with English sub-titles)

And lastly, a humorous look at how it used to be.
Technical support in the Middle Ages

Tony Bates: Interviews and Keynotes

The implications of Web 2.0 for teaching and learning

Keynote delivered by video-conference to conference at the University of Leicester, UK, January 2008

Interview with Mike O’Donoghue of Lancaster University, U.K., 2006, 45 minutes
(recommend the audio version):

Audio Version
Video version

Topics:
strategic planning of e-learning
strategic use of e-learning
barriers to e-learning
is e-learning a useful term?
face-to-face vs online: how to decide?
why come to campus?
teaching skills for a knowledge-based society
exploiting IT infrastructure for administration
what’s the use of lectures?
training for professors in e-learning
my favorite technology and why
implications of Web 2.0
will all learning be through technology?
IT in schools vs IT in universities
do we still need teachers?

Centralised or decentralised distance education at dual mode universities?

This video interview with Tony Bates discusses the factors at play and the advantages and disadvantages of faculties being responsible for distance education, based on the experience of the University of British Columbia, which unsuccessfully moved to decentralise services in 2003. The interview was done for the University of Wisconsin 2009 Annual Conference on distance education

Lastly, for many more videos on e-learning go to http://video.google.com and type in ‘e-learning’ in the search box.

Source: tonybates.ca

As media partner, e-Taalim will promote the activities and projects undertaken by ASK including international events such as the International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT) which is held this year in Sousse, Tunisia 5-7 July.

ASK will provide the necessary information for e-Taalim’s journalists about their projects and any significant emerging activities. A banner exchange has been operated this week on both Web sites and both institutions are highly motivated to collaborate in joint projects in the near future.

ASK’s main achievements

The main achievements of ASK during the past ten (10) years, in the above areas can be summarized as follows:

• Participation in 36 R&D projects (15 EC funded Projects, 10 National Projects, 11 Industrial Subcontracts) attracting total external funding at the range of  5 Million Euro.
• More than 206 scientific publications in book chapters, journals and conference proceedings, with at least 652 known citations (with h-index 16).
• Scientific World Leadership in the field of Technology-enhanced Learning, with Co-Editorship of the Educational Technology and Society Journal, (one of the top research journals in the field based on its impact factor) and Co-Chairship of major international conferences on Learning Technologies, such as IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
• Active participation in European and International Centers of Excellency such as, IEEE Computer Society Learning Technologies Technical Committee, CEN/ISSS Learning Technlogies Workshop and the IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.