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Digital media and the Internet are transforming how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. A newly-created Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the University of California-Irvine will provide an international center to nurture exploration of and build evidence around the impact of digital media on young people's learning and its potential for transforming education. Funded through a $2.97 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Center was announced today at a national forum at Google headquarters that brought together leading thinkers around the challenge of reasserting American global leadership in education.

"Digital Media and Learning Competition 4: Badges for Lifelong Learning" supported by the MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with Mozilla and HASTAC, simultaneously in person and online 9/15/11

Digital Media and Learning Conference, March 1-3, 2012, San Francisco, sponsored by MacArthur Foundation, theme "Beyond Educational Technology: Learning Innovations in a Connected World"

The portability of a complete course on a mobile device enables students to learn in the classroom, on the bus, or at home-anytime, anywhere. With the new HMH Fuse: Algebra 1, students will have access to all the resources they need on one device

MIT Launches New Center for Mobile Learning Receives Initial Funding from Google Education.

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

"Do we have the generosity to collaborate? Can we build legal, organizational, and financial structures that will preserve and order-but also share and disseminate the learning of the world? Scholars have traditionally gated and protected knowledge, yet also shared and distributed it in libraries, schools, and universities. We have stood for a republic of learning that is wider than the ivory tower, and now is the time to do so again. We must stand up, as the Swedes say, for folkbildningsidealet, that profoundly democratic vision of universal learning and education."

A 15-chapter open access book published by de Gruyter focusing on knowledge access efforts by libraries worldwide, with considerations given to libraries furthering lifelong learning and library spaces.

March 1-3, 2012, San Francisco, UC Humanities Research Institute, UC Irvine, supported by MacArthur Foundation

provides access to a comprehehsive set of software packages easing the exploration, modification, comparison, and extension of data mining and information visualization algorithms. Diverse software packages were bundled into learning modules. Access to a large-scale data repository, extensive compute resources, and a growing set of references are provided as well. It is our hope that the community will adopt this resource to foster Information Visualization education and research.

From the Aspen Ideas Festival, a panel discussion on how to use digital media to lower barriers to education, identifying the types of teaching processes that lend themselves best to such media and other opportunities at the crossroad of technologies and

Collaboration between The New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (via @oatp) offers technology predictions for one to five years

The OSG/CMU Scientific Software Ecosystem Workshop was held February 16 & 17, 2010 in Los Angeles, supported by the National Science Foundation through grant #0943168. It was an invitation workshop on scientific software development ecosystems, organized by the SciSoft research team at CMU (Jim Herbsleb and James Howison) and the Open Science Grid, hosted by LIGO at CalTech (special thanks to Kent Blackburn). The purpose of the workshop was to learn from each other in order to improve how we produce, share and sustain scientific software in our various fields and to develop positions regarding possible scientific research funding agency policies on software practices.

What are new pedagogic approaches for learning with mobile platforms? What are the limitations of the "digital literacies" paradigm and its first world/third world assumptions?

professional learning network for teachers and educators

." I'd suggest we can learn a lesson from that story as we 'build' the DPLA: we should work with familiar mental models of the library, for both browsers and searchers. Let's make this easy for our users." (Nate Hill)

From the abstract:" This article examines the MOOC phenomenon, identifying aspects that academic librarians should consider in the coming years, including how these courses interact with scholarly resources and library services. Methods for integrating library services in these courses are evaluated, with recommendations for the best course of action. "