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12/04

REVISITING BLENDED LEARNING
An in-depth look at blended learning based on information collected from an invitational two-day workshop sponsored by the Sloan Consortium and hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago. Forty educators representing 20 institutions attended the workshop in late April 2004. This cover story features some of the highlights of the workshop and was produced from a taped transcription of the proceedings. MORE

BLENDED LEARNING AND THE GENERATIONS
A review, in part, of an online workshop held by the Sloan Consortium earlier this month in which Chuck Dziuban, Joel Hartman and Patsy Moskal from the University of Central Florida drew upon seven years of longitudinal data collected about students from four generations - Matures, Baby Boomers, Generation Xers, and Millennials - who took fully online and blended courses at UCF. MORE

MORE ON MILLENNIALS
Based on an interview with Susan Patrick, director, Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education, who provides an overview of some of the characteristics of Millennials (those born between 1982 and 2000) and asks us some important questions about whether or not our education systems are ready for this generation. MORE

A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY IN RELATION TO MILLENNIALS
If you are interested in learning more about the Millennials, check out this list of resources with live links to loads of fascinating information. MORE

VENDOR PROFILE: HOW SILICON CHALK IMPROVES AND ARCHIVES THE TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE
Adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, Murray Goldberg, made a very big mark in the world of educational technology when he created WebCT back in the mid 1990s. Now he is on a different educational pathway - one in which he’s carving out another innovative educational technology enterprise as president and CEO of Silicon Chalk, a learning platform software that enables teaching and learning in a wide variety of contexts. MORE

LAPTOP PROGRAM AT SAIT UTILIZING SILICON CHALK
Silicon Chalk’s tag line is "the future of education, now," and a glimpse of this notion can be found at one of Silicon Chalk’s larger clients, the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) in Calgary. MORE

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