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This volume of the Schooling for Tomorrow series goes beyond the OECD's own set of educational futures already published. It discusses how to develop scenarios and use them to address the challenges confronting policy and practice. Its chapters give both authoritative scholarly overviews and very practical lessons to be applied, including from Jay Ogilvy, a prominent exponent of scenario thinking for the business world, and school change expert Michael Fullan. This book is relevant for the many - policy makers, school leaders and teachers - concerned with the long-term future of education.

The Social Media Classroom (we'll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes-integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools.

The term has been bandied about for years now. Mobile learning, aka m-learning, seems to be on everyone's lips but few people's mobile devices. Learning Circuits's associate editor Eva Kaplan-Leiserson talks to two of the field's foremost experts to sort the reality from the hype. What's currently working in m-learning, and why? What's been stopping its widespread adoption? And what's necessary to make it more pervasive?

The Web is no longer a collection of static pages of HTML that describe something in the world. Increasingly, the Web is the world - everything and everyone in the world casts an "information shadow," an aura of data which, when captured and processed intelligently, offers extraordinary opportunity and mind bending implications. Web Squared is our way of exploring this phenomenon and giving it a name.

"The Accessibility Imperative" is the first attempt made to present in one comprehensive volume the challenges and opportunities of implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in matters of accessibility to Information and Communication Technologies. The Convention at large - and more specifically its Article 9 - creates the first universal framework specifically addressing these issues which affect over 600,000,000 persons living with disabilities worldwide

What does it mean to you, when Google says 'Mobile First' ?

"Google is working on Google Visual Search, a mobile application that lets users take a picture of a location from their Android-powered smartphone and trigger a Google search that pulls up information associated with the image. The search engine revealed its plans on CNBC's "Inside the Mind of Google," segment Dec. 3. Pairing digital ads, possibly from Google's AdMob acquisition, is a natural way to make money from visual mobile searches. Many people take pictures from their increasingly improving smartphone cameras daily, but imagine if those users could leverage the images as search tools instead of simply fun pictures to look at."

In the process of our recent research and planning for the Horizon Project, it became useful to combine the previous reports from 2004-2009 into a single PDF. The past reports are available individually for free under Creative Commons licensing from the Horizon web site and our NMC publications page), but as a single "boxed set" you can do keyword searches across all of the titles.

"Auf den Lernenden und seine Lernmethode maßgeschneiderte Lehrinhalte über das Netz zu vermitteln klingt phänomenal. Bloß haben die Verkünder des E-Learnings nicht bedacht, dass Lernende nicht immer zu den "early adoptern" der IT-Szene zählen"

Maps on a Stick fills a strategic void for our partners who are working on the ground abroad. With it organizations can distribute custom baselayer maps to their teams in places that don't have internet access and therefore traditionally could only use static maps.

PISA provides a goldmine of data for researchers interested in many topics, and the OECD has just its analysis of Technology Use and Educational Performance in PISA, which notes that "OECD countries [here's the list of them] have undertaken significant investments to enhance the role of technology in education. What are the results of these investments? Are they fulfilling expectations? PISA 2006 provides a wealth of comparative data to begin answering these questions ..."

In March 2010 the report Mobile Augmented Reality voor het onderwijs has been published. CELSTEC researchers wrote this report (in Dutch) for SURFnet/Kennisnet. It's a technology survey of augmented reality on smartphones and its possibilities for education.

Google Maps Navigation is an internet-connected GPS navigation system with voice guidance. It is part of Google Maps for mobile and is available for phones with Android 2.0.

"Theodor W. Adorno and Jürgen Habermas both champion the goal of a rational society. However, they differ significantly about what this society should look like and how best to achieve it. "

Proceedings of the 4th conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques