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Social network for learning - Xplana kicks off next week.  Integration of popular social network apps into one!

""This study firmly shows that continued technological education throughout a teacher's career is vital to providing students with the skills they will need for future careers," said Anne Bryant, executive director of the National School Boards Association. "This survey shows that school boards need to be as intentional and purposeful as possible in supporting increased technology integration in schools.""

Researchers investigated the impact of podcasting on student motivation in the online environment during fall 2008 and spring 2009. Data were collected from students enrolled in fourteen online courses at a research university in the United States. One hundred and ninety-one students completed a modified version of the Instructional Materials Motivation Survey (); it has four subscales: attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction. Strong positive relationships between all subscales were detected. Results indicate students were moderately motivated by the use of podcasts in their online courses. Only available to Butler

More discussion about the implications of the new copyright ruling as it relates to LMS use and video editing - specifically mentions Kaltura

This is an application that provides mobile learning objects (via phones, social media, or desktop widget) for distributing learning materials like study guides, quizzes, and flash cards outside of the classroom.

video about e-learning and the need for change in the classroom.

"his site is for a three-session faculty development event supported by the John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning at Gustavus Adolphus College. The purpose of these sessions is to explore old and new ways of finding information, both web and library-based, as well as to discuss classroom applications, the state of publishing, open access, copyright, and more."

This oped piece suggest that as educators," we are called upon to challenge the way students already think and guide them into new patterns or ways of thinking as required, in order for them to grasp central concepts and applications of learning. Collaborative technologies, while not central to the process, can help facilitate this core function of education."

blog post about the minimum instructional technology level he would like to see every faculty member have

Kim has a short list of requirements for a curricular media platform - might be useful to us too.

On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.

innovation grants

"Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of nearly 2,800 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twenty learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers"

ipad, review

Making things fun matters!

Universities are losing their grip on higher learning as the Internet is, inexorably, becoming the dominant infrastructure for knowledge - both as a container and as a global platform for knowledge exchange between people - and as a new generation of students requires a very different model of higher education. The transformation of the university is not just a good idea. It is an imperative, and evidence is mounting that the consequences of further delay may be dire.

Elaine Smokewood, robbed of the ability to talk and even travel to class, learned better ways to reach students through technology

Report after first year of iPhones at ACU