Distance Learning, mLearning, Digital Education, Technology

Using a phone app to measure distances! If you are in the field and don't have a stadiometer.

BBC Earth Lab tries to answer whether nature or nurture is more helpful to succeed in sports. Read more to find out how your genetics may affect your athletic ability.

Limiting a child's use of screen time to less than 2 hours a day can have a positive effect on cognition, a new study found. The combination of sleep time, screen time and physical activity when considered together have the biggest impact.

A lot of lip service is being paid to making scientific papers free to access but when it comes to action there is a lot of hypocrisy, according to Robert-Jan Smits, the EU's outgoing director-general for research, science and innovation. He has recently been appointed the EU's special envoy on open access, tasked with helping make all publicly funded research in Europe freely available by 2020.

As TEQSA ramps-up its interest in how higher education institutions are mediating a level of quality in online courses, it is timely for our institutions to un…

“We are noticing the negative effects of this game, particularly on boys and most concerning, on boys in K-2,” it said.

Shellharbour public school in NSW told parents: “The ability to communicate online whilst playing these games is leading to moments of online bullying, the use of inappropriate language and abuse.”

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Online enrollment at a small private institution in Kentucky rose far more quickly than administrators expected, thanks to strategic decisions and a little luck.

"Don't lecture me" Keynote speech by Donald Clark (with Twitter Track by agreement with Donald) at "Into something rich and strange" - making sense of the sea change, the 2010 conference of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). Session given in Nottingham, UK, on Tuesday 7 September 2010, at 10.20.

The platform’s entertainment for children is weirder—and more globalized—than adults could have expected.

The business case for using chatbots in the education sector is compelling. I am tempted to suggest that every school, college and university in the UK will be using a chatbot within 10 years. So, what is the business case for using a chatbot in an education setting?

Teach your children to use technology in a healthy, responsible way. Learn what to watch for, how to set limits and stick to them, and when it's O.K. to embrace screen time.

Children with high amounts of screen time have far worse cognitive skills, research shows.

Chrome OS is just as capable as Windows and macOS for simple video editing, as evidenced by these Chromebook video editors.

As the number of young gamers has risen sharply, so have addiction narratives

I'm certainly not a gamer myself, but I see the logic in using video games to teach some students. This article found here. Teachthought looks very interesting. If you have tried this in your class please let me know. I am sharing the article here: Using Civilization VI To Teach Social Studies In Exactly How To…

The simplest drag and drop doodle video creator available! Create your perfect doodle video in 3 simple steps! Available for both white board and blackboard. Get more details inside.

Deakin University's new collaboration with online learning platform FutureLearn lets you study in convenient two-week blocks towards a degree.

CHICAGO — By Marquell Brown’s count, he has been locked up “roughly 42 times” since 2009. He has been in state and county jails for a range of crimes, including nonviolent offenses like trespassing as well as more serious ones. In February, Brown had been out for six months and he called it a record. …

Jump to a specific place in a YouTube video with a time stamp, so people you send a link to can begin watching at precisely the right spot in the video.