Google have announced that the media you upload to your Google Drive account from whatever source you've got - be it your smartphone, your tablet, your Chromebook, or your desktop computer - can now be viewed from Google+ and shared directly as well.
At the core of connected learning are three values:
1. Equity -- when educational opportunity is available and accessible to all young people, it elevates the world we all live in.
2. Full Participation -- learning environments, communities, and civic life thrive when all members actively engage and contribute.
3. Social connection -- learning is meaningful when it is part of valued social relationships and shared practice, culture, and identity.
Also see videos at http://connectedlearning.tv/what-is-connected-learning
"University of the Future", an Ernst & Young report released a week ago is a six month study on the changes in Australian and international universities. According to the study Higher education institutions will need to fundamentally transform their business models to survive; "Over the next 10-15 years, the current public university model in Australia will prove unviable in all but a few cases...".
April 3-4 2013: ...we will engage the teaching and learning community in exploring this new online course model. Tour institutional examples of MOOCs, various instructional designs and delivery models, processes, methodologies for setting up and evaluating the model, and implications for teaching and learning.