My early thoughts on the book Flash Foresight: How to see the invisible and do the impossible. There's a lot in here for edutech.

Quick post on the similarities between game-based learning and PBL. Features brilliant Commoncraft video on PBL.

site has set up as fast as possible to contain a one place resource for people to access news, emergency services, contact numbers, references, news feeds and so on.There will be a number of Drupal people working on this brand new Drupal 7 website to respond to the terrible emergency befallen Queensland in January 2011.

Tourism is a people industry worth $6billion annually to Australia's economy. Rather than ask distance education students to write essays and forum posts, Robyn Alderton and her team at NSW TAFE WIT decided to create real opportunities for students to role play in a virtual resort. Here is her video report on her Australian Flexible Learning Framework Project.

Windows and IE Applications compatibility blog.

This site has been conceived and is being composed to support the activities of our staff and students, encouraging them to publish content digitally and take time to reflect upon their learning activities. We hope that other interested academics, learners or curriculum support staff will contribute to the content found here. If you fall into one of these groups, please get in touch and let us know how you might be able to contribute. We look forward to sharing the Mahara experience with you.

On this site you will be able to plant a poppy (one symbol of remembrance) in a field to commemorate those who have been affected by war. Between November 11, 2010 and April 25, 2011, we hope that we will have 1000 commemorative messages 'planted' by students from across the globe.

This paper describes the findings of an exploratory, qualitative case study and examines problems and impediments faculty members encountered in blended learning environments in Turkish Higher Education system. A total of 117 faculty members from 4 universities responded to 8 interview questions. Findings were based on content analyses of interview transcripts. The results show that faculty members' problems with blended teaching resulted in the identification of three inductive categories: instructional processes, community concerns and technical issues. The eight themes emerged from these three categories include the following: (1) complexity of the instruction, (2) lack of planning and organization, (3) lack of effective communication, (4) need for more time, (5) lack of institutional support, (6) changing roles, (7) difficulty of adoption to new technologies and (8) lack of electronic means. This study indicates that teaching blended courses can be highly complex and have different teaching patterns, which, in turn, impacts successful implementation of the blended college courses.

A fantastic web site for adult technology n00bies! Simple explanations that don't talk down to adult learners on a wide range of IT-related topics.

Full moons are often associated with tides, insanity and creatures like werewolves, but it turns out they're also good for brewing beer. The full moon speeds up the fermentation process, shortening it to five days from seven, which adds extra punch to the beer without making it harsh, according to connoisseurs.

From my presentation due to start at 11am ACST for Sarah Stewart of Otaga Polytech in New Zealand - come one, come all! http://tinyurl.com/2u7h9pe

This review provides a rich vision ofthe current and potential futuredevelopments in this area. It movesaway from the dominant view of mobilelearning as an isolated activity to exploremobile learning as a rich, collaborativeand conversational experience, whetherin classrooms, homes or the streets ofa city. It asks how we might draw onexisting theories of learning to help usevaluate the most relevant applicationsof mobile technologies in education. Itdescribes outstanding projects currentlyunder development in the UK and aroundthe world and it explores what the futuremight hold for learning with mobiletechnologies.

1GOAL is a campaign seizing the power of football to ensure that education for all is a lasting impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Raising our voices all over the world we believe that, together, we can make education a reality for the millions of boys and girls who remain out of school.

What do you get when you cross Moodle with Mahara and Google Apps? An e-learning ecosystem that supports learning, creating, collaborating and active reflection. This presentation from Leo Gaggl of Bright Cookie given at the SA Moodle Meetup will expand your vocabulary and possibly the way you use Moodle.

Google Docs is more than just creating online documents, spreadsheets and presentations. With Google Docs, you can access your files from anywhere, share them with the people you choose, and work together in real time. To help those of you just getting started with Google Docs we have created a new series of videos. These videos give a high level overview and steps to get started. And since each video is focused on one feature, its easy to only learn about the ones that matter most to you:

Framework funding closing early this year for RTOs - deadline for apps with CEO sign-offs is 22 September.