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Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. Wikiversity has over ten thousand learning resources, many of which are of the highest repute, and it is rapidly growing.

The Emerging List of Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 from the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies

The Emerging List of Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 from the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies

Composica 4.0 is a social e‑learning authoring system that offers real-time collaboration among team members and provides a powerful programming- free WYSIWYG environment to create and deliver high-quality interactive e‑learning 2.0 content with embedded social media.

Composica 4.0 is a social e‑learning authoring system that offers real-time collaboration among team members and provides a powerful programming- free WYSIWYG environment to create and deliver high-quality interactive e‑learning 2.0 content with embedded social media.

The Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) describe what is essential for Victorian students to achieve from Prep to Year 10. They provide a whole school curriculum planning framework that sets out learning standards for schools to use to plan their teaching and learning programs, including assessment and reporting of student achievement and progress.

Jane Hart's 5th annual survey of learning tools that we have built based on the contributions of learning professionals worldwide. The 2011 list will be finalised on 13 November 2011.

TIP is a tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators. The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.

Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) are all about using web tools such as blogs, wiki, twitter, facebook to create connects with others which extend our learning, increases our reflection while enabling us to learn together as part of a global community. PLNs increase our opportunities to ask questions and receive help compared to our normal daily face-to-face interactions.

The Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC) was today advised by an Expert Working Group that breakthroughs in the science of learning, including brain function, motivation and the practice of teaching, have the potential to transform how individual Australians acquire and retain knowledge throughout their lives.

The Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC) was today advised by an Expert Working Group that breakthroughs in the science of learning, including brain function, motivation and the practice of teaching, have the potential to transform how individual Australians acquire and retain knowledge throughout their lives.

Dr Julia Atkins work on Learning By Design. Looks good.

An online writing scaffold that provides frameworks for young people to learn about different text types and examples of student works - helpful for supporting the learning of English

An online writing scaffold that provides frameworks for young people to learn about different text types and examples of student works - helpful for supporting the learning of English

"In Project Based Learning (PBL), students go through an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge. While allowing for some degree of student "voice and choice," rigorous projects are carefully planned, managed, and assessed to help students learn key academic content, practice 21st Century Skills (such as collaboration, communication & critical thinking)"

Sugar reinvents how computers can be used for education. Sugar provides a simple yet powerful means of engaging young children in the world of learning that is opened up by computing and the Internet. Sugar promotes sharing, collaborative learning, and reflection. Through Sugar's clarity of design, children and their teachers use computation on their own terms; they are free to reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content into powerful learning activities. Sugar is a community project.

Online journal looking at Reusable Learning Objects in Education

This is a ning site dedicated to the support of a Personal Learning Network for Educators

This is a ning site dedicated to the support of a Personal Learning Network for Educators

Welcome to the AVALON project website, your route into virtual worlds for language education! The information presented in this website (click on the right-hand menu for specific topics) is addressed to anyone interested in virtual worlds for educational purposes and in particular to: * Language teachers * Language learners * Teacher trainers * Learning technologists * Decision makers in the field of education The AVALON website provides you with access to: * Information about the use of virtual worlds for language education * Information on how to Get Started in the virtual world of Second Life® * An Online Community of educational experts and language teaching practitioners who are using virtual worlds for language education * Guidelines for teaching in virtual worlds * Resources for Teachers * Resources for Teacher Trainers * Resources for learning technologists * Tested Course Scenarios for use in virtual world environments * An Open-source archive with selected 2D and 3D content from the project

Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences From the University of Sheffield, ref Philipa Levy

The teacher work sample focuses on the assessment of student learning and adapting assessment and instructional strategies to meet student needs. Methods, data, and lessons learned will be shared.

Learning design website

"Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The areas of emerging technology cited for 2011 are: Time to adoption: One Year or Less * Electronic Books * Mobiles Time to adoption: Two to Three Years * Augmented Reality * Game-based Learning Time to adoption: Four to Five Years * Gesture-based Computing * Learning Analytics"