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These Guidelines outline key issues and make suggestions for integrating OER into higher education. (Commonwealth of Learning)

Seems to mirror the approach LDs take to academic development. Steel, Caroline and Andrews, Trish (2012). Re-imagining teaching for technology - Enriched learning spaces: An academic development model. In Mike Keppell, Kay Souter and Matthew Riddle (Ed.), Physical and Virtual Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Concepts for the Modern Learning Environment (pp. 242-265) Hershey, PA, U.S.A.: Information Science Reference.

This article is useful in considering the future of higher ed within the broader context of economic change brought on by digital technologies.

"A growing appreciation for the porous boundaries between the classroom and life experience, along with the power of social learning, authentic audiences, and integrative contexts, has created not only promising changes in learning but also disruptive moments in teaching." (Randy Bass (bassr@georgetown.edu) is Associate Provost and Executive Director of the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown University. )

This site serves as a central hub to facilitate and support the research and dissemination of best practices in distance education in the Australian higher education sector. Check out links on http://delicious.com/dehub

Seems like a new tool from AFLF that may have some application to higher ed and summarise some important LD ideas. A PDF Guide is also available: http://ldt.eworks.edu.au/documents/Learning%20Design%20Tool_Paper%20Guide.pdf

EDUCAUSE announced today a new initiative to advance analytics at U.S. colleges and universities. EDUCAUSE will work with the higher education community to provide thought leadership and education to develop institutional capability for analytics.

Most of the tips are relevant to higher ed, and each contains a decent paragraph description.

"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...".

"Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies is a collection of chapters and case studies contributed by college and university presidents, provosts, faculty, and other stakeholders. Institutions are finding new ways of achieving higher education's mission without being crippled by constraints or overpowered by greater expectations."

Link: Beyond MOOCs Sustainable Online Learning in Institutions (PDF) Link: Beyond MOOCs Sustainable Online Learning in Institutions (MS Word .docx) Executive Summary The key opportunity for institutions is to take the concepts developed by the MOOC experiment to date and use them to improve the quality of their face-to-face and online provision, and to open up access to higher education.

Grade Change - Tracking Online Education in the United State is the eleventh annual report on the state of online learning in U.S. higher education. The survey is designed, administered and analyzed by the Babson Survey Research Group, with data collection conducted in partnership with the College Board. Using responses from more than 2,800 colleges and universities, this study is aimed at answering fundamental questions about the nature and extent of online education.

Will produce 5 five stand-alone reports focusing on: part-time learners and learning; employer engagement and work-based learning; new pedagogical ideas; technology-enhanced learning; institutional systems and infrastructures.