Seward Incorporated

All of the holiday gift packaging got me thinking about resuability in international development and education. Can we gift wrap aid packages to be reused as learning material? And what about reusable learning objects? Are Open Educational Resources and Reusable Learning Objects the way for international development?

In late November, Seward participated in the Software & Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) 2011 Innovation Incubator Program. The program is designed to highlight innovative educational technology products and services, as well as be a vehicle for networking and collaboration. Our participation in this program got me thinking about innovation not only in the field of educational technology, but in general.

For quite some time, eLearning producers have relied heavily on the use of flash technologies to provide a consistent, engaging, and media-rich platform for delivering learning material to the widest variety of people. Flash technologies have been the platform of choice because they offer extreme flexibility coupled with deep market penetration.  Having the Flash plugin [...]