Education Today 09/16/2008

Top 10 Tools lists

A daily item of e-learning interest selected by Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies.

1. http://snipurl.com/3qm5c
2. http://snipurl.com/3qm5v
3. http://snipurl.com/3qm5y
4. http://snipurl.com/3qm61

Open Source; a better model for all of us

There is a major difference between open source and a free Web service...The beauty of the open source model, of which there are several variants, is that it is more difficult for a project to be controlled by special interests. This is definitely something to consider as we use more and more web applications for education.

What if learning technologists ruled the world?

How decentralised and uncoordinated activity appeared to be for educational technologists working in the educational sector.

Web 2.0 is about giving up some control

Teachers need to say less of: 'let's open up a book.' and more of: 'let's open up a conversation.