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Francisco Hidalgo TEXAS AEM UNIVERSITY-KINGSVILLE Rudolfo Chávez-Chávez NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY Jean C. Ramage UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. KEARNEY This chapter surveys the intellectual evolution of multicultural education and analyzes it within a naturalistic framework for understanding the cultural differences and the dynamics of culture contact in an increasingly diverse society.

DIY learning, development. Interesting graphic and organization.

An aggregator of the blog posts for a course in open education from the Open University. Anyone can join the course (started March 16, 2013): http://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/open-education/content-section-0 Or you can just read and comment on the blogs if you want.

An open course on open education from the Open University--started March 16, 2013, but anyone can join now or later (content will stay up after it's done...for how long??)

from etmooc session

University of Minnesota's Office of Information Technology produces brief synopses of recent research studies on educational technology

In case anyone is interested in research studies on edtech, I just found this website that gives synopses of selected studies. Might be helpful for some.

The academic conversation on MOOCs is starting to polarise in exactly the talking-past-one-another way that so many complex conversations evolve: with very smart points on either side, but not a lot of recognition that the validity of certain key points on one side does not undermine the validity of certain key points on the other. I regret this flattening of online learning into a simple binary of 'politically and financially motivated greed' on the one hand and 'an opportunity to find out more about learning' on the other. Some of both in different situations can be true.

"But now, there's proof that all this worry about information overload, message meltdown and attention crash is overinflated hyperventilating. A study out of Northwestern University finds that "very few Americans feel bogged down or overwhelmed by the volume of news and information at their fingertips and on their screens.""

As the population of the United States becomes more diverse and globally more interdependent, it is critical that universities prepare students to become engaged multicultural global citizens and leaders. Whether it's preparing students on essential job skills, the capabilities of citizenship, or the moral imperatives of the 21st century, we all agree on the importance of understanding differences.

"Coding as a Liberal Art"

Report on future of learning from the Open University. "The future of learning lies in a student-centered, web 2.0 empowered, networked connectivism. This is the New Culture of Learning, and we owe it to our own life-long learning and to our students to study this mode closely and exploit every opportunity to advance it."