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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Google Award to the Khan Academy

Learn Math Free!

Google decided to participate in the "change the world" project and grant 10 million dollars to the best projects. Among 160, 000 submissions The Khan Academy was awarded with one of the five projects selected




Thursday, June 24, 2010

COLLADA enables to export and save 2L products

One of the problems of Second Life is that it does not talk with other software very easily; it operates as a "closed system". Whatever assets are produced there cannot be stored or exported outside this platform. Some efforts have been made on this regard that led to the creation of SLOODE; the combination of Second Life and Moddle that makes possible the aggregation of asynchronous discussion

However, Apparently, COLLADA would enable Second Life to talk much more other 3D online worlds. Wagner James reports in his Blog that "SL developers will have a means of legitimately backing up their content outside of Second Life". Read more at New World Notes

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Second Life for Faculty Development training

West Virginia University has joined Marshall in using Second Life to guide students through the campus and train
aspiring elementary education teachers. See Details at West Virginia U.

Saturday, May 09, 2009

Argentina has a Digital Agenda


According to CLAD, Argentina's President, Dra. Cristina Fernandez signed Bill (512/09) approving the Digital Agenda for Argentina. This agenda addresses national sectors in which IT could improve the the overall development of the nation; that is, the digital agenda includes policies for health, education, commerce and governance

If you want to learn more about it, please, visit
Agenda Digital Argentina

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Open Access to Scientific Knowledge


I am pleased to inform my readers that the European Community is allocating resources to support a multi-year initiative for the growth and development of Scientific knowledge, available for al.

Details can be found atScientific Open Knowledge

Saturday, September 27, 2008

New Director of COL


On September 26, The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) a consortium of the British Comonwealth with the mission of supporting open learning and distance education in the member countries, has recently appointed Burchell Whiteman, as New Chair of Commonwealth of Learning. You can read about this at: New COL Chairman

Saturday, September 06, 2008

Second Life Embassies


On September 5, the Second Life of Sweden video streamed a conference on E-learning 2.0. The developer is going to offer free courses of Swedish language and give visitors the opportunity of developing their own Avatars
You can visit this interesting site at
Second House of Sweden

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

The New York Times as a Repository for Real Case Studies



An innovative way to bring into distance education a set of case studies has been developed by Professor Matt Cookson at the University of New Hampshire. Professor Cookson uses The New York Times as a vast learning repository posing real life dilemmas. The powerful search engines of this important newspaper help the students to track the chosen case. For the full story visit Inside HigherEd at:


insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/09/epsilen

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Learn Music at a distance

A group congregated under the name Magister music has put together an interesting site, open to the world, for whoever wants to learn music. Authors, instruments and techniques are easy to find after registering as members of this learning community.






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