International Intelligent Tutoring Systems Conference 2008: Past and Future
JOANNA SZURMAK and SIMONE LAUGHTON

Intelligent Tutoring Systems can be used to provide personalized, sequenced, and adaptable activities and feedback to meet individual learner needs. In a world where class sizes seem to be expanding and individualized instruction is deemed to be cost prohibitive, intelligent tutoring systems have the potential to supplement and augment individual learning. »

 

ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36: Information Technology for Learning, Education, and Training
SIMONE LAUGHTON

The development of standards at the international level is said to signal the maturation of an emergent field or industry (Friesen, 2005).  Efforts have been underway at the international level within the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 to develop standards for information technology for learning, education, and training since 2000. »

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CARTO2008, University of British Columbia, May 14, 2008 “Giving Maps a Second Life with Digital Technologies” Conference Presentation by David Rumsey 
ANDREW NICHOLSON

Over the past couple of years, the use of Google Earth and Second Life as visualization and learning tools have been widely discussed among educators. Earlier this year, David Rumsey, a map collector and scholar based in San Francisco, began moving much of his large antique map collection into the virtual environments of Google Earth and Second Life. »

 

ELPub – Open Scholarly Publishing
PAM KING

This summer the University of Toronto was host to the 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, ELPUB 2008.  The conference title, Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0, gives only a tip of the iceberg description of the program’s richness and diversity. »