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"approaches, the challenge of translating this across the higher education sector remains. The reasons are complex and multifold: educational rules and restrictions in different countries, access, technical resources, ICT literacy, teaching capacity, and teaching cultures are widely cited. One key issue is concerned with cultural issues, teachers' belief systems and their day to day practice. Teacher practice is still predominately built around a notion of teacher as expert and student as recipient. Despite the shift in educational thinking towards more constructivist "

" for a larger and more diverse cross-section of the population, to cater for emerging patterns on educational involvement which facilitate lifelong learning and to include technology-based practices in the curriculum" (p. 143). A source of this transformation stems from the ability of online learners to be both together and apart-and to be connected to a community of learners anytime and anywhere, without being time, place, or situation bound. Moreover, the increasingly prevalent practice of the convergence of text-based asynchronous Internet-based learning with face-to-face approaches is having a volatile impact on traditional campus-based institutions of higher education. To this point, the Pr"

"The three universities have invested considerable thought into something less often discussed in the press: how education on their own campuses would benefit from their MOOC efforts. Both faculty members and those in senior administration with responsibility for MOOCs note that the faculty are now more engaged in discussing pedagogy and learning outcomes and that new teaching methods enabled by MOOCs (such as flipped classrooms), and lessons learned from engaging in MOOCs (such as the value of shorter lecture segments and more frequent testing for understanding), are being applied to residential education in interesting ways."

Moocs, byod, gamification and learning analytics. Useful info on cost of moocs for an institution and the number of production and teaching hours required

Global competition useful on judging criteria

Links to and reviews of educational applications of external tools from University of Northampton