A research brief issued for public comment by the US Department of Education which discusses a research agenda for how dating mining can inform educational decision making and outcomes
Computers and the web have transformed homes and businesses, and could do the same for education and training. Known as "eLearning," this can be as simple as accessing a school timetable online, or as complex as running virtual communities for sharing and creating knowledge.
Abstrat: "Higher education institutions face a number of opportunities and challenges as the result of the digital revolution. The institutions perform a number of scholarship functions which can be affected by new technologies, and the desire is to retain these functions where appropriate, whilst the form they take may change. Much of the reaction to technological change comes from those with a vested interest in either wholesale change or maintaining the status quo. Taking the resilience metaphor from ecology, the authors propose a framework for analysing an institution's ability to adapt to digital challenges. This framework is examined at two institutions (the UK Open University and Canada's Athabasca University) using two current digital challenges, namely Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Open Access publishing."
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A new publishing platform to showcase the best of that online work. It's called PressForward. And its creators-the same people who developed the academic-research platforms Zotero and Omeka-hope to take advantage of the interactive Web but preserve elements of scholarly review.