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2009 Anne Scrivener Agee, Catherine Yang, and the 2009 EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee.

August 11 2009 California State University

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Blended Learning is learning which combines online and face-to-face approaches. The following material resulted from an ANTA-funded project which set out to investigate blended learning through a series of interviews with teachers.

Blended Learning is learning which combines online and face-to-face approaches. The following material resulted from an ANTA-funded project which set out to investigate blended learning through a series of interviews with teachers.

This article explores the different learning 'styles' and 'needs' addressed by OTEN when designing online course material.

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Examples of the kinds of new technologies that we think may benefit learners and teachers

Photostory3 is a free Windows download that allows you to build simple digital stories using still images

This book chapter was originally published as Onley, I, Herrington, J and Verenikina, I, Digital story telling using iPods, in Herrington, J, Herrington, A, Mantei, J, Olney, I and Ferry, B (editors), New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, 2009, 138p.

A paper discussing recent trends in public funding for VET and TAFE and the implications for future funding of government targets to improve the skills of the Australian population Prepared by Michael Long Monash University -ACER Centre for the Economics of Education and Training for The Australian Education Union

Famous blogger Robin Good has just interviewed George Siemens for Robin Good TV in order to put things clear: What is conectivism?

Conversation with Vicki Marchant around the concept of the person as a learning object and the systemisation of learning, top down management that enables rather than controls, a bottom up 'People Learning Management System' that aggregates people to come together around a particular subject, task, problem...when needed. I'm lucky enough to be going to the ILTA Edtech conference in Dublin! this week. Looking forward to Don Dron's discussion on Designing the undesignable around the systemisation of social software where he'll be presenting on:Conversation with Vicki Marchant around the concept of the person as a learning object and the systemisation of learning, top down management that enables rather than controls, a bottom up 'People Learning Management System' that aggregates people to come together around a particular subject, task, problem...when needed.

Useful reflective blog post from an educator who uses Roxio PhotoShow in educational contexts for student assessment etc

This is cool! Will use in PIE - Converting bookmarks & RSS feeds to slideshow in minutes! More powerful and easy to use functions! Check it out! Converting bookmarks & RSS feeds to slideshow in minutes! More powerful and easy to use functions! Check it out!

Time and services network/ community currency, I wopnder whetehr this could be applied in large organisations

A tool for checking foreground & background colour combinations to determine if they provide good colour visibility. Determining "colour visibility" is based on algorithms suggested by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): "Two colours are considered to provide good colour visibility if the brightness difference and the colour difference between the two colours are greater than a set range." The range suggested by the W3C is > 125 for colour brightness and > 500 for colour difference.

Live blogging the South Western Sydney Innovation day held 20 May 2010

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