Online Distance Education Research Portal

Annotated website of Distance Learning Reports and Abstracts

Multimedia Portables in Teaching

National Council for Educational Technology : "Investigated the benefits of providing teachers with access to portable computers. The Pilot involved 1150 teachers from 575 primary and secondary schools in England.

Each was provided with a multimedia portable computer which could be connected to the Internet, and an Internet subscription. Four different models of computer were used in the project, three of which came with CD-ROMs and with a variety of productivity software."

-Executive Summary (pdf)
-Full Report (pdf)

Online Teaching Course

Online Teaching Course: "LeTTOL stands for Learning To Teach Online. It is a FENTO-verified award winning course that helps participants gain the skills needed to develop and deliver online courses of all kinds. It can help you make the Internet a powerful, flexible and accessible way to learn."

Virtual Teacher Centre

Virtual Teacher Centre : "Offers you all the free education information you could ever need. News and events are regularly updated and there is a selection of web-based subject resources. There are numerous ways you can have your say on the site, so please take a bit of time to either add a comment to a news story, rate a resource or post to a forum."

Virtual Learning In European Schools

Virtual Learning Environments for European Schools : "This report gives an outlook on the use of Virtual Learning Environments in educational settings in Europe. The report has two major parts:
- one based on two surveys run on-line from September to November 2002
- the second comprising desk research on the state of art

The report is aimed at policy-makers at all levels in school education: ministries, municipalities and schools, and also researchers and developers. It is the second issue paper in the series of EUN Insight reports."

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