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White paper from the New Media Consortium, produced in conjunction with the Economist Magazine and in collaboration with Apple, Inc. The paper, entitled "The Future of Higher Education: How Technology will Shape Learning " reports the results of a study of nearly 300 CIOs and technology leaders inside and outside of education.

Welcome to Yale Books Unbound 1 This project is part of the Institute for the Future of the Book's CommentPress experiment. 2 It's a way of sharing books and the ideas within them, as well as facilitating some of our works in progress. 3 Yale University Press is pleased to participate in this initiative since we see it as a very promising way of fulfilling our main objective of disseminating art and knowledge to the widest possible audience and facilitating on-going and all-important dialogues about ideas and issues that shape our world. 4 Up until now, very few book publishers have leveraged new technologies to add any additional value beyond basic Search functionality to their content. We agree with the Institute for the Future of the Book that a broad rethinking of books-and particularly scholarly monographs-needs to take place.

Itoh, R. (2006). Handwriting Technology and Future of Writing Instruction for Japanese Language. In T. Reeves & S. Yamashita (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (pp. 609-612). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

With their ideas as a guide, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative is embarking on a collaborative project to create a blueprint for the "classroom" of the future -- realizing, of course, that it may not be a classroom at all. With wikis as our workplace, we're asking the EDUCAUSE community to share their ideas and expertise to help us, as a community, a vision of what the ideal learning environment might look like. Comments will be used to construct simulated course environments, starting with easy-to-implement solutions for rethinking the traditional lecture format and scaling to "blue sky" initiatives that include global collaboration and opportunities to "learn by doing." We hope you'll also take this opportunity to share the unique and innovative ways that your campus is already transforming learning in the classroom, on campus, and in virtual worlds.

We're a small think-and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens. We are funded generously by the MacArthur Foundation, and affiliated with the University of Southern California. We are located in Brooklyn, NY and London, UK.

New MIT Center Will Explore New Forms of Storytelling (Including Holographic Ones). The Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced yesterday that it had signed a contract with a budding film-and-television studio to create the Center for Future Storytelling.

In the next five years, Web-based computing will likely bring important changes in how students study, how scholars do research, and how college information-technology departments operate.

Welcome to The Golden Notebook Project. Start reading the book online → Here are answers to some common questions: What is this? It's an experiment in close-reading in which seven women are reading the book and conducting a conversation in the margins. The project went live on Monday 10 November 2008. Why are you doing it? It's part of a long-term effort to encourage and enable a culture of collaborative learning. What do you hope to learn? We don't yet understand how to model a complex conversation in the web's two-dimensional environment and we're hoping this experiment will help us learn some of what we need to do to make this sort of collaboration as successful as possible.

Video from digital ethnographer showing how the web has evolved into Web 2.0 and some of its implications.

A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves. They disagree about whether this will lead to more social tolerance, more forgiving human relations, or better home lives.