Stories about educational technologies, virtual reality, augmented reality, Artificial Intelligence, gamification and other tech
”I believe that the 21st Century will be the Century of the brain.” Professor Patrick Aebischer, EPFL Both USA and EU have recently launched extraordinary longstanding projects in order to explore the human brain’s functions and how these work together. In particular for the EU initiative information- and communication technology (ICT) …
Teaching with new prerequisites and collaborative learning In part 2 in this article-series PLE or web-library method and self-studies with technical support were described. In this part we dig into the changes within traditional education according to the teaching by telling method as well as the renaissance for collaborative learning. …
Tim Berners-Lee is the scientist that in the beginning of 1990s delivered the Internet to the public by his creation the World Wide Web. The foundation for Web 1.0 was based on HTTP, HTML and URL, a combination that made the web eternal. The result of Berners-Lee’s efforts totally lacks …
Theme Visualization Part 2:Translating communications- and brain research theory to practice The computer used the right way can overcome natural barriers in traditional classroom education. In addition to visualization and facilitate activity in the computer-based tools, these tools can also work as the activating trigger in the traditional classroom. Communications …
Visualization Part 1: Translating communications- and brain research theory to practice A computer is designed with the human brain as a model. It includes a sensory system that is a poorer version of the human senses. While the computer’s operating memory (RAM) often can be a more powerful information processor …
Many teachers, parents and researchers are against computer games, but at the same time they are buying games for their own children. Their friends’ play the games, the marketing from the producers are severe and the computer games are an important part of a growing global cyber-culture. This means that …
The European Parliament and the Council of Ministers present digital competence as one of the key areas to the life-long learning. For the net-generation, defined by OECD as New Millennium Learners (NML), the problem is reversed. This generation grew up with a diversity of digital techniques and can be counted …
After the decades at the end of the 20th Century programmers ruled almost exclusively over eLearning-development. The result was creative technical solutions that all too often were created at the expense of pedagogy and user-friendliness. And further back, before the IT-boom, the source of electronic learning was recorded tapes where …
