E-learn Weblog of Willem van Valkenburg
Blogging about OER, OCW, Blackboard, Mobile, Social Media and other interesting stuff
Category: Algemeen
Leercentrum Agora
Apr 21st
Afgelopen donderdag was ik bij de opening van het leercentrum Agora van de KU Leuven op uitnodiging van Fred Truyen. Het leercentrum is gerealiseerd in de binnenstad van Leuven in de oude Pharmacie instituut uit 1932. Er is plaats voor zo'n 550 studente… more »
Anka Mulder appointed as Vice-President for Education & Operations of TU Delft
Feb 22nd
Anka Mulder is my boss at the the department of Education & Student Affairs. In 2011 she got additional responsibilities as secretary-general of the university. Today we received the announcement that she will succeed Paul Rullmann as Vice-President… more »
The predictability of hype cycles
Jan 26th
"Most predictions are wrong. The small number that turn out to be right are largely luck, but we tend to remember them because they reinforce our naive belief that the future can be predicted."
Every December and January you see lots of prediction of w… more »
E-learn.nl in 2012
Dec 30th
This is the 100th blogpost that I publish on this blog in 2012. In this blog an overview of the most populair posts and other statistics.
The blogpost were not nicely distributed over the year. Although I published every month at least 5 posts, Decembe… more »
Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012
Dec 20th
Audrey Watters is one of the rare Educational technology journalists and she is really good at. This month she is doing a serie about the top Ed-Tech trends of 2012. She has now publiced 8 really great articles that everyone in education should read.… more »
Technology Changing How Students Learn
Nov 24th
Het artikel "Technology Changing How Students Learn" is alweer van bijna een maand geleden, maar het bevat wel interessante informatie. Volgens docenten verandert het leergedrag van studenten door technologie:
There is a widespread belief among teacher… more »
Innovating Pedagogy Serie
Jul 24th
The Open University UK started a serie reports about innovating pedagogy:
The series of reports explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation.
The first r… more »
Forecasting the Future of Education
Jul 5th
Via Gerwin Pols I stumbled upon this video of New Brunswick Department of Education. The video provides an insightful peek into the future of education and extrapolates some exciting innovations that we can expect to see by the year 2020. more »
Net-les: online huiswerkbegeleiding
Apr 11th
De afgelopen jaren zijn de huiswerkbegeleidingsinstituten uit de grond geschoten. Hier is dus duidelijk behoefte aan. Wat opvalt is dat deze eigenlijk allemaal vrij traditioneel van opzet zijn. Ze hebben een ruimte waar de scholieren na school naar toe… more »
2012 Horizon Report
Feb 6th
Each year, Educause and New Media Consortium publish the Horizon Report. This report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The areas of emerging technology cited for 2012 are more »
