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an institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating online education into the mainstream of higher education, helping institutions and individual educators improve the quality, scale, and breadth of education. Membership in the Sloan Consortium provides knowledge, practice, community, and direction for educators.

Key Points: * Higher education historically has focused on instructors teaching rather than students learning, an ineffective approach that could seriously hamper the promise of mobile learning. * Successful student learning emerges from active engagement, connection to the students' prior knowledge, and simulation of real world experiences - all facilitated by engaging learners' senses through multimedia. * Higher education should stop thinking about these powerful mobile multimedia devices as only consumption devices - to live up to the promise of mobile learning, students should use them as production devices.

A Solution Approach: Harden's Taxonomy of Curriculum Integration Building upon various earlier works on curriculum integration with more specific focus on school education, in 2000, Harden [4] proposed a taxonomy of curriculum integration wrt medical education. In my view, it is good model that can be used by all programs of higher education.  Harden has structured this taxonomy as an eleven stage ladder given below:

EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

A trade group that represents 16 educational media companies, objected to UCLA's practice of allowing students to stream copyrighted videos on their course websites. Since course websites are not classrooms, the group said, the "fair use" exemptions for educational use do not apply.

This is a power point presentation Brian gave in 2013.

graphic displays the learning objectives for the course, and connects the course assignments to the learning objectives.  Students can see-at a glance-that work none of course assignments are random or arbitrary (an occasional student complaint), but that each assignment links directly to a course learning objective.