EDUCAUSE Review
EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 39, Number 5, September/October 2004 New Tools for Back-to-School: Blogs, Swarms, Wikis, and Games features Stephen Downes
The process of blogging—of reading online, engaging a community, and reflecting it online—is a process of bringing life into learning.
Bryan Alexander
How are wireless, mobile technologies and their emergent trends, such as swarms, affecting the learning environment, pedagogy, and campus life?
Brian Lamb
The needs met by "wikis"—documents posted online for open editing by all—are simply not being satisfied by present IT strategies and tools.
Web Bonus! Joel Foreman
To learn more about videogames in academe, the author spoke with five leading-edge thinkers in the field: James Paul Gee, J. C. Herz, Randy Hinrichs, Marc Prensky, and Ben Sawyer.
Departments techwatch
Leadership
Linwood H. Rose
E-Content
Thomas C. Redman
New Horizons
Brad Wheeler
policy@edu
E. Michael Staman
Viewpoints
Daniel Greenstein
Homepage
Mark Luker
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