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"Learning analytics is the "measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs," according to the 1st International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge.1 The NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition notes that this promising set of practices and tools aims to "harness the power of advances in data mining, interpretation, and modeling to improve understandings of teaching and learning, and to tailor education to individual students more effectively."2 Finally, George Siemens and Phil Long have even proposed that learning analytics should ultimately be focused on disruption and transformation in education, changing the very nature of teaching, learning, and assessment as we know it.3"

"Description The Learning to Teach Online project has been developed by COFA Online, an academic unit at the College of Fine Arts, the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. It is designed to be practical and easy to access for time-poor teachers. The video and PDF based episodes each examine specific successful online teaching strategies from many different disciplines, offering tips, guidance and pointing out the potential pitfalls to both novice and experienced online teachers. Support for the COFA Online Learning to Teach Online program has been provided by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Ltd, an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The views expressed in this activity do not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. For more information and access to a global online supportive community, please visit the Learning to Teach Online website www.online.cofa.unsw.edu.au"

Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories.

"§ What is Teach Less, Learn More? § Resource Materials for Teach Less, Learn More § The Teach Less, Learn More Logo § Teach Less, Learn More Ignite!"

"Getting Started in the 1:1 Classroom (e-Learning for Educators) This course is offered as a part of the e-Learning for Educators project, a partnership between LEARN NC, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University College of Education, UNC-TV, DPI, and the North Carolina Virtual Public School. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Education under Grant No. U286A050018."

"I'm so tired of having the integration of technology into learning overlooked because it's "too hard". As educators - actual professional educators , who actually go into classrooms every day and teach for a living - we do NOT have the luxury of choosing whether we should be integrating technology, or whether we want to learn more about it, or whether we think it's relevant to the learning process. It is , it's part of the job and if people don't think so, then they ought to be getting a copy of the Saturday paper and looking for a something else to do where they CAN be selective about what part of the job they are willing to take seriously without it impacting on our future generations."

"Learning 2.0 is Dumb: Use 'Connected Learning' Instead"

"Quest to Learn "builds on the best of what we know about how kids learn but does it with a 21st-century twist,"

"JE: But you're not saying that technology is a bad thing, to have it there is a good thing, isn't it? AS: Well, absolutely. I think technology is there to stay. Technology has huge potential to transform, to fundamentally transform, learning processes. You know it can create a much more open pedagogical environment, it can connect the home environment and the school environment, it can give students access to the most advanced knowledge, anywhere, anytime, rather than giving them a textbook that was printed last year and maybe designed five years ago.  So, there's huge potential for technology to transform learning, but what our report clearly shows is that's not what's happening today."

"Learning Management Systems (LMS) are walled gardens. They provide substantial control over the environment in which learning activities take place, and at first glance this appears to be a good thing. For this reason they are often relatively appealing to faculty members beginning to make the transition from fully traditional classroom instruction. The level of control is familiar… but it is also misleading when taken in the context of the full learning process (see "Hack the LMS: Getting Progressive" for more on this)."

"Students today have instant access to information through technology and the web, manage their own acquisition of knowledge through informal learning, and have progressed beyond consumers of content to become producers and publishers. As a result, traditional teaching and learning methods are becoming less effective at engaging students and motivating them to achieve."

changing the nature of learning

The presentation which Matt passed on to me looks at the response to this through the creation of Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. This identifies the nature of the learning which can take place within our digital environments and classifies this into levels. Well worth 5 minutes of your time and really made me reflect all over again on how important collaboration is within our 21st Century learning environments.

"How Might Our Students Benefit from a Flipped Classroom? Harvard Physics Professor, Eric Mazur, uses peer instruction and just-in-time teaching to promote better learning. In the details of his strategy, students use class time to grapple with, discuss and find solutions to problems that have traditionally been given as homework assignments. Mazur believes this collaborative deconstruction and application leads to deeper discussions and better learning."

Teaching Lifelong Learning Skills with Twitter: A Lesson for Leaders

"Knewton's adaptive technology continuously personalizes online learning content for each individual student."

"Characteristics of Constructivist Learning & Teaching"

We need a new pedagogy for 21st century teaching & learning video

Tammy is delivering a one-hour session on her grade 4-6 football unit, in which she strives to incorporate both inquiry-based learning and technology.

Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning 7/15/2008 05:48:00 PM Management guru Peter Drucker noted that companies attracting the best knowledge workers will "secure the single biggest factor for competitive advantage." We and other forward-looking companies put a lot of effort into hiring such people. What are we looking for?