Ermis Lecture Recording

Here is a link to last night's guest lecture. Thank you everyone who made it! And thanks again, Liz for speaking with the IDT Community!

http://element.emporia.edu/p89797000/

Seventh Annual Survey of Online Learning

Just Released: The seventh annual Sloan Survey of Online Learning reveals that online enrollment rose by nearly 17 percent from a year earlier. The survey, a collaborative effort between the Babson Survey Research Group, the College Board and the Sloan Consortium, is the leading barometer of online learning in the United States. Using results from more than 2,500 colleges and universities nationwide, the report finds approximately 4.6 million students were enrolled in at least one online course in fall 2008.

The complete report, “Learning on Demand: Online Education in the United States, 2009” is available here.

Augmented Reality

O.K. folks, this is pretty cool! And Dr. Eberle promises me that there are some decent educational/training applications for this!
An augmented reality map of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - http://www.harrypotter3d.com/
You will need to print the map and follow the directions at the site (need a Mac/PC and webcam).

More about this marker-based technology at - http://www.vizworld.com/2010/01/augmented-reality-map-wizarding-world-harry-potter/
And here's an interesting application for the retail clothing world - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/23/zugaras-augmented-reality-dressing-room-is-great-if-you-dont-care-how-your-clothes-fit/

I will post this at our IDT Ning site and we can talk about it more! - http://idtesu.ning.com