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'Design Thinking' might just be the next 'new' old thing in education. In her recent address to the National Press Club, Catherine Livingstone of The Business Council of Australia included 'Design Thinking' amongst the critical STEM skills required for Australia's future. But what do we mean by 'Design Thinking' and why should educators be interested?

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Book Reviews Book title: Digitisation Perspectives Type: book Author: Ruth Rikowski Year: 2010 Edition: 1st ISBN: 9460912982 Publisher: Sense Publishers Publisher's Description: This book examines various views and perspectives on digitisation. As Simon Tanner, Director Digital Consultancy, King's College London says in the Foreword: "Digitisation has become a cultural, scholastic, economic and political imperative and raises many issues for our consideration." Furthermore, that the book: "...seeks to address and answer some of the big questions of digitisation... It succeeds on many levels..." There are 22 contributors in the book, all experts in their fields. The book is divided into six parts: Part 1: 'Background and Overview to Digitisation and Digital Libraries' Part 2: 'Digitisation and Higher Education' Part 3: 'Digitisation and Inequalities' Part 4: 'Digital Libraries, Reference Services and Citation Indexing' Part 5: 'Digitisation of Rare, Valued and Scholarly Works' Part 6: 'Futuristic Developments of Digitisation' Topics covered include electronic theses, search engine technology, digitisation in Africa, citation indexing, reference services, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, new media and scholarly publishing. The final chapter explores virtual libraries, and poses some interesting questions for possible futures. The book will be of particular interest to information professionals, educators, librarians, academics and I.T. and knowledge experts. Ruth Rikowski concludes by indicating that: "...hopefully, the book will provide a source of inspiration for further research, leading to some more effective ways to proceed with the digitisation process. Also, that it will be possible to do this within a framework that can be used for good rather than ill, and for the benefit of many." Reviewer: Eric Jukes (Formerly of College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London) Book Rating: 5/5 Buy this book from Amazon  Review Summary

" special education, Florida Department of Education, Universal Design for Learning, Assistive Tech, Simple Tech, Reading, Writing, Math, Science, Creativity"

Class on Mobile is a solution, which is designed specifically to access the learning content of any type (device compatible) via tablets and smartphones such as iPad, iPhone, Android tablets, etc. This solutions includes two different interfaces, one for Mobile Devices and another for PCs. This model provides the flexibility for the users to access their data and learning content from not just anywhere, anytime but from any device.

Awesome Free Facebook Covers Photos for eLearning Professionals Facebook cover photo give a high flexibility in how we present ourselves. If you are looking ways to capture the attention of your friends, colleagues, and your online students feel free to use at your Facebook Timeline the following list of Free Facebook Covers Photos for Teachers, Educators, Learning and Development Professionals, Instructional Designers and in general professional involved in the eLearning Industry. http://elearningindustry.com/awesome-free-facebook-covers-photos-for-elearning-professionals

SOLSTICE involves the use of supported online learning or blended learning designed on sound pedagogic principles and developed as a result of ongoing evaluative research

SOLSTICE involves the use of supported online learning or blended learning designed on sound pedagogic principles and developed as a result of ongoing evaluative research

The Open University's SocialLearn Project is investigating what it means to tune social media spaces for learning. This work covers: * conceptual foundations for social learning and sensemaking * human-centred design perspectives on open, social systems * prototyping and evaluation

This is a potentially huge boost to any e-learning program that relies heavily on video lecture content.  We know that just watching a lecture is a dull chore (unless the lecturer is a master broadcaster).  We also know that shorter, on point clips from a lecture would be highly effective when presented in the context of meaningful response activities.  This is where reelsurfer might fit.  They promise to make your video library searchable and provide the tech to clip the elements you want to promote for study or for marketing.  Lots of built in links to social media make this easy.  30- Day free trial.  Could be a way to leverage a large archive of lecture tapes into something suitable for finely designed online learning. 

This free eBook, eLearning Trends in 2019, the fourth one in this series, has been designed to be your guide to enhance, measure, and maximize the impact and returns on your learning strategies in 2019.

Managed Learning Services providers facilitate organizational development with outsourcing, design and delivery of effective training programs.

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Become an Expert Game Developer with this complete E-Degree Program. Learn how to create Game Clones like Angry Bird, PokemonGo, Zelda, or Porta and many more!

The top five search tools for finding Flickr images are designed to help teachers and students locate just the right image for use in any subject area and project. Without these tools finding the right image on this image hosting site is often an impossible, or at least a tedious, task. The value of this site is its ability to provide digital pictures which are often impossible for a teacher to obtain any other way. Like everything else on the internet, trying to find something is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. This where the top five search tools become valuable resources for teachers and students trying to find images comes into play. These search engines are specifically designed to search the more than three billion pictures on the Flickr hosting site.

"An interesting 3D design platform with challenges to aid learning and a variety of options. Free version has limited shapes library."

Behind the rhetoric and politics, education is about the outcomes it achieves for its learners. More than being about the nuances of technology, learning space design, curriculum structures and pedagogical practices schools should have effective answers to questions that focus on what they hope to achieve for their learners. How we answer this question should then dictate the measures we utilise to achieve these goals and it is to these ends that we must apply our efforts.