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  • Anne Lukas
  • Url: http://annelukas.blogspot.com/
  • Posts: 7
  • About the user: Before I went to Amsterdam to start the New Media Master, I studied Educational Design, Management & Media (BA) at the University of Twente (Enschede, Netherlands). During this time, I did an internship in Sydney, Australia for an educational company. There I was designing course material for academic institutions, but unfortunately only print-media. In my opinion is this medium too limited to educate people nowadays because of its lack of interactivity. So after this experience I wanted to be more engaged in e-learning. For the future, I wish to become an instructional designer who develops educational software, websites, etc.

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What are the trends in e-learning?

Anne Lukas | 01 November 2010, 12:49 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

While I was wondering about the right topic of my master thesis, I was thinking of technologies that might have the biggest impact on e-learning in the future. That means, that I don’t want to write about Second Life or other new media that didn’t revolutionize learning in the last years. Even though the number of users is increasing,…

E-readers and e-books for education

Anne Lukas | 16 October 2010, 4:29 pm | 8 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Firstly, I need to say that I love to read and I love technology. So isn’t an e-reader the perfect combination of both? Isn’t it the perfect compromise between the small screen of an iPhone or iPod Touch and the chunky format of a regular book? In my opinion, yes! I believe that in the future the e-reader will be…

Microblogging = Micro-education?

Anne Lukas | 07 October 2010, 3:01 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Since the beginning of the Twitter hype, I was wondering what the value of Twitter is. Can we possibly learn anything from or through microblogging? Is it useful for companies to encourage lifelong learning? Or can schools and other institutions improve their education with microblogging? Until now I haven’t found an answer for these questions and until now I still…

1 of 1.129.725 German Wikipedia articles

Anne Lukas | 03 October 2010, 3:06 pm | tags: , , , ,

Since Monday the 27th September I am a new Wikipedia author and I must admit that I like it. I can’t name reasons why I didn’t try it before but now I know that I don’t want to stop contributing to Wikipedia anymore. So you will very likely read more articles in the future which were written or changed by…

The Internet – a ’seductive data set’ accessed at the touch of a button

Anne Lukas | 28 September 2010, 4:04 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

The rapid expansion of internet uptake throughout the world created a potential for new social experiences, and thus offers researchers new environments for their social enquiry (Beddows, 2008). Kaye and Johnson predicted already in 1999 that the World Wide Web and other new electronic technologies might soon become prime survey vehicles due to convenient, verifiable, low-cost delivery and return systems…

Book Review: “Nach Feierabend: Daten” [After work: Data]

Anne Lukas | 23 September 2010, 2:48 pm | tags: , , ,

Data have an incredible argumentative potential. Data can be produced, filed, saved, evaluated, spread, sold, aggregated, falsified, interpreted, transmitted, protected, processed and combined. Data show relations, support theses and disprove assumptions. Data can also change over the time and become a trend, which warns of the future or predicts better times. That means that data can have a prognostic potential…

What are the possibilities of blogging for education?

Anne Lukas | 13 September 2010, 3:01 pm | 3 comments | tags: , ,

Everybody is talking about blogs, a lot of people even have their own blog, but the scientific debate about blogging is still in the beginning. This article tries to answer the questions: what are the educational benefits and possibilities of blogging; how can you support learning/teaching using blogs? Therefore I was searching for recent articles and found an interesting one…