Trends in der höheren Bildung: Blended Learning, OER, neue Lernumgebungen und eine neue Lernkultur

Online Learning Insights hat den aktuellen Horizon-Report des New Media Consortium 2015 zum Thema Higher Education unter die Lupe genommen.  Sechs Trends in der höheren Bildung wurden im aktuellen Horizon-Report identifiziert: Ansteigende Nutzung von Blended Learning Redesign von Lernumgebungen Wachsender Fokus auf Messverfahren Verbreitung von OER (Open Educational Resources) Change- und innovationsgetriebene Lernkulturen Steigende inter-institutionelle Zusammenarbeit …

Eerily lifelike animation heralds new era for computer games [Times Online]

Watch this. The future is now. 'Emily' will set a new precedent for photo-realistic characters in video games and films, says her creator, Image Metrics. Now imagine that realism backed by natural language speech enabled software robots...and we've got ourselves a useful android. Article: Lifelike animation heralds new era for computer games - Times Online.

Crowdsourcing: Products from the "people formerly known as customers"

Interesting (while promotional) video about the impact of Crowdsourcing on product development and change of whole markets. The author of the book he’s promoting with this trailer likes two definitions for crowdsourcing best: The White Paper Version: Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and …

Eerily Realistically Rendered 3D World. Watch this!

Watch more than the first 30 seconds, because you’ll think this is clearly a fake (*) until you realize that those camera movements are simply not possible in real life. Later on they show avatars, lightning and embedding of all ther media like pics and movies etc. just with a click on the wall. Dusan …