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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.

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:

sowebedu is the short form of "Social Web in Education" and refers to the usage of Social Software and Web2.0 for teaching and learning. This wiki is created for the Share.TEC pilot Social Software and Web2.0 in Teacher Education and Teacher Training. It provides a platform for a community of practice for exploring and analysing the usage of Social Software and Web2.0 tools and services under real educational conditions

Theories and Models of Learning for Educational Research and Practice. This knowledge base features learning theories that address how people learn. A resource useful for scholars of various fields such as educational psychology, instructional design, and

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.

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.

significant 'mobile learning' projects currently underway in the UK and tries to draw out their significance specifically for the education community.The introduction provides a working definition of mobile learning and then tries to identify the meaning and the limitations of the projects described specifically for a readership working in education.

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

Resources for those educators wishing to learn more about blogging Rubrics

CMS used by Nortwestern University is Blackboard with collaboration services powered by Google Apps for Education. This web page contains information of : Archiving Tools: Archive a Course Exempt a Course from Archive Restore an Archived Course View and Modify Course Status