New Tools for Back-to-School:
Blogs, Swarms, Wikis, and Games

Features

• Educational Blogging
  Stephen Downes
  The process of blogging—of reading online, engaging a community, and reflecting it online—is a process of bringing life into learning.
• Going Nomadic: Mobile Learning in Higher Education
  Bryan Alexander
  How are wireless, mobile technologies and their emergent trends, such as swarms, affecting the learning environment, pedagogy, and campus life?
• Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not
  Brian Lamb
  The needs met by "wikis"—documents posted online for open editing by all—are simply not being satisfied by present IT strategies and tools.

• Game-Based Learning: How to Delight and Instruct in the 21st Century
  Joel Foreman
  To learn more about videogames in academe, the author spoke with five leading-edge thinkers in the field: James Paul Gee, J. C. Herz, Randy Hinrichs, Marc Prensky, and Ben Sawyer.

Departments

• techwatch
  Information Technology in the News
• Leadership
  Information Security: A Difficult Balance
  Linwood H. Rose
• E-Content
  Data Quality: Should Universities Worry?
  Thomas C. Redman
• New Horizons
  The Open Source Parade
  Brad Wheeler
• policy@edu
  Whither Telecommunications Regulation?
  E. Michael Staman
• Viewpoints
  Research Libraries: Costs of Doing Business
  (and Strategies for Avoiding Them)
  Daniel Greenstein
• Homepage
  Watch What You Ask For
  Mark Luker