Monthly Archives: January 2009

Mobile gaming, Work based training

Hmm…a bit of a rhyme there! This is fairly old news I guess but something I have only just come across as I’ve only recently started to have look over the fence into the mobile learning garden.
I’ve been reading about staff at Hilton Garden Inns in the USA doing work-based training on Sony PSPs. They’ve [...]

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Google to deliver “cloud storage” solution?

Spotted a post on Lifehacker today concerning a possible future service from Google. A reader has spotted an option in the recently released Picasa for Mac beta to “move photo to Google Web Drive”. Mmmm…interesting.
Now I’ve already taken advantage of my Gmail space, using that as an online storage container - those interested in doing the [...]

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Report on Identity Management for Lifelong Learning

The JISC have just released a report on Identify Management for Lifelong Learning in the Further and Higher Education Sector.
A full copy of the report can be downloaded from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearningcapital/imdfinalreport.doc
There is also a summary and consultation on the JISC e-learning blog, comments welcomed. See http://elearning.jiscinvolve.org/

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E-Infrastructures and Technologies for Lifelong Learning…

…a call for Chapter Proposals.
Dr. George Magoulis of Birkbeck College, University of London & Director of the recent JISC project, MyPlan (http://www.lkl.ac.uk/research/myplan/) is about to edit a book entitled “E-Infrastructures and Technologies for Lifelong Learning: Next Generation Environments”. 
The idea is to provide a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art technologies for e-learning and lifelong learning, covering theoretical approaches, models, [...]

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