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Points out many of they key issues faced by humanities and social science scholars as we enter the 21st century.

Web 2.0 tools have critically elevated the social networking activity and skills of individuals. Not only are young people highly active in social networks, but older individuals are also showing a huge increase in their use of these tools. The attraction of older age groups is, of course, social connection and community building among professional and casual peers and friends.

What This Blog is About In one phrase: Building Engaging Learning Experiences through Instructional Design and E-Learning I'm an instructional designer developing online learning, so that's primarily what I write about. * Instructional Design: This is what I do all day, and I'm always trying to learn how to do it better. * Higher Ed: The courses I create are graduate courses, so I'm interested in higher education. * K-12 Education: The participants in those courses are mostly K-12 educators, so I'm interested in what's important to my audience too. * Corporate E-Learning: Even though I'm in education, I know I can learn a lot from corporate e-learning. Besides, I'm employed by a for-profit company. * Lifelong Learning: It didn't start out to be a goal for my blog, but I've discovered that these tools help my own lifelong learning. I write about my discoveries: what works, what doesn't, what I'm thinking. * Technology: I write about technology, especially as it overlaps with any of the above areas. * Bookmarks: The Daily Bookmarks Posts are resources I find interesting or useful. You can view and search the complete list of bookmarks on Diigo or del.icio.us. On my Post Series and Recurring Themes page, I've collected some popular topics. This includes my liveblogged posts from the TCC 2008 conference and my series on instructional design careers. The top posts in the sidebar to the right are another great place to start reading.

Digital Relearning: Professor Cathy N. Davidson (Duke) describes teaching and learning in a digital age

A Public (invitation/application) group for collecting references and resources about Web 2.0 use in Academia--for teaching, for learning, for scholarly practice; 21st Century higher education, social networking, social media, and social knowledge creation in general.

Gates: U.S. ed has no choice but to improve Microsoft co-founder said education is the field that has changed the least with technology

Discussion of what the new form of expertise might need to look like in college classrooms.

A course aimed at defining the rhetoric of personal agency.

Sciweavers is a free bookmark academic social network for researchers. It hosts URL links to the most significant and effective research tools and materials on the web such as publications, source code, presentations, tutorials, lecture notes, books, data

Video describes how education is changing.

investigated student perceptions of factors influencing participation in an online computer science ethics course and developed a conceptual framework with four categories: attributes of the medium, design of the learning activities, student dispositional factors, and student situational factors. Bullen identified many potential obstacles to online participation in each of these

A presentation on Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom with ideas for using different tools in the classroom.

A presentation on the use of Twitter within academia and its benefits.

A commentary by the Technology Enhanced Learning Phase for the University of London, London Knowledge Lab.

This paper explores the potential of artificial intelligent (AI) systems in the university's core functions of teaching, learning and knowledge nexus, against the background of rapid technological change, globalisation and challenges facing universities to respond to societies' needs in the knowledge age. As knowledge and innovation will drive competitive economic advantage in increasingly Internet defined infrastructures, a new university paradigm is needed where telecommunications and computers replace roads, buildings and transport technology that underpinned the industrial university that operated in the industrial age. As the Internet a global communication tool continues to impact on all human activities and enterprise changing the way we shop, bank, do business, entertain ourselves, communicate and think, it is radically changing how, when and what we learn. This paper introduces the idea of a HyperClass based on HyperReality, an advanced form of distributed virtual reality where physical reality and virtual reality, and human intelligence and artificial intelligence intermesh and interact to provide anyone, anywhere, anytime learning, in which teaching could be done by Just in Time Artificially Intelligent Tutors (JITAITs) that will pop up when needed, whilst students use avatars -online simulacra of themselves - to interact as telepresences in classes from different countries and locations.

As schools shift to 21st century learning in a time of budget crunches, digital textbooks in classrooms are on the rise. To help educators and administrators efficiently implement digital texts, two diverse districts share their motivations, tactics, and goals for their textbook programs.