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In the Daily Galaxy: "Although It has taken homo sapiens several million years to evolve from the apes, the useful information in our DNA, has probably changed by only a few million bits. So the rate of biological evolution in humans, Stephen Hawking points out in his Life in the Universe lecture,  is about a bit a year. "By contrast," Hawking says, "there are about 50,000 new books published in the English language each year, containing of the order of a hundred billion bits of information. Of course, the great majority of this information is garbage, and no use to any form of life. But, even so, the rate at which useful information can be added is millions, if not billions, higher than with DNA." Thanx to @JulianEdward pointing me to this!

"A new task force to ensure our universities become the first choice across the world for on-line distance learning was announced today by Higher Education Minister, David Lammy.The task force chaired by Lynne Brindley, the Chief Executive of the British Library will advise on a wider strategy to build on our past and present successes and ensure we do not lose pace on increased demand in expanding and new markets.It will be backed by a new Open Learning Innovation Fund aimed at helping universities build on their existing world class reputations to access and engage future markets that are expected to value around £15bn in the future. This is a competitive match funding initiative, with up to £10m from HEFCE and therefore worth up to £20m in total, aims to encourage universities to work collaboratively with each other and the private and third sectors, to bid for money to develop projects to help transform the way people can get a degree." Thanx to cris Sharing this! Awesome, seeing public investment in the right direction!

The presentation will be to debunk some of the myths around the so-called Net Generation by highlighting the lack solid research to support many of the claims. I will present results from research done at BCIT and elsewhere to argue for a more nuanced approach to the use of educational technology to support the needs of this generation of learner.

Immer wieder wert zu lesen: "Arnold, P. (2004). Einsatz digitaler Medien in der Hochschullehre aus lerntheoretischer Sicht. e-teaching.org: http://www.e-teaching.org/didaktik/theorie/lerntheorie/arnold.pdf Der Einzug digitaler Medien in die Hochschullehre erfordert eine Auseinandersetzung mit lerntheoretischen Ansätzen. Patricia Arnold gibt in ihrem Artikel einen vertiefenden Einblick in verschiedene lerntheoretische Ansätze und deren Anwendung innerhalb verschiedener mediengestützer Lehrszenarien." So die Verfasserin des Artikels über den Themengegenstand in 2005.