Wednesday, August 24, 2011
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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
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
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.
aspiring elementary education teachers. See Details at West Virginia U.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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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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