via http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2417 "Like Twitter, it’s a microblogging site, but it builds in significant additional functionality to support classroom interactions." "When you create an account, you designate yourself as a teacher or student. Teachers can create groups that students join when they create their accounts (students can join multiple groups and teachers can create and/or join multiple groups); when a group is created, the site generates a group code that must be entered to join. Then, messages, files, links, and assignments can be sent to whole groups."
a listing of open access journals (name, url, and RSS feed) that publish papers on the nexus between technology and education (educational technology, instructional design, e-learning, online distance education, and so on, and so on).
If life were longer I might want to play with this kind of thing. I wonder if in my son's lifetime intelligent tutoring systems will be able to go to university?
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Y. Atif. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Intelligent Semantic Web-Services and Applications, стр. 24:1--24:5. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2010)