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"The series of reports explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation." The ten innovations are: Assessment for learning Badges to accredit learning Learning analytics MOOCs New pedagogy for e-books Personal inquiry learning Publisher led mini-courses Rebirth of academic publishing Rhizomatic learning Seamless learning

Emerging Practice in a Digital Age draws on recent JISC reports and case studies and looks at how colleges and universities are continuing to embrace innovation and respond to changes in economic, social and technological circumstances in a fastchanging world. The focus of this guide is on emerging practice rather than emerging technology.

The Innovative Teaching for Effective Learning ITEL project is conceived as a future-oriented and innovation-focused contribution to OECD's work on teachers and teaching. It focuses on the pedagogical knowledge base and competences of teachers and how they should be redefined to be in line with recent developments in understanding effective learning, as for example as hightlighted in publication: The Nature of Learning: Using Research to Inspire Practice.

A practical resource demonstrating the benefits of a more progressive and less proprietorial approach to knowledge transfer, and makes a strong case for a new, open, technology-enabled approach: - achieving more with less - the importance of a team rather than individualist approach to KT - the benefits of an open innovation approach, for example accessing new knowledge and perspectives through crowd-sourcing (for more see http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/kt/about)

"THE SIXTH WAVE is a business book, a motivational book, a bold prediction and a roadmap to the future. It is for anyone interested in understanding how the next wave of innovation will change our lives, and how to succeed in a resource-limited world. "

Listing with a brief description of smart phone use in the classroom. Some well known; some lesser known ideas.

MOOCs were a major discussion item at the ascilite 2012 conference - http://www.ascilite2012.org/home

Data is from US schools, but still useful to see the bigger trends emerge...

A linguist's perspective on the evolution of language and using texting to replicate spoken language. Useful for our consideration of chat functionalities and the appearance of texting language in unexpected arenas.

Here's the link to the report on which the 'Online teaching and workload' seminar (02/11/12) was based. No real surprises, but it is nice to have a report that confirms a lot of what we preach.

Online pinboard - some good ideas for using it here.

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

I note particularly the planed "engaging ed" competition. QUT staff could be part of this...

A QUT library database which focuses on national and international trends of all kinds, including technology and education. Well worth a look!

(View webinar archive and support resources) - Next Generation Learning Challenges has identified six essential dimensions of next-generation learning: - learning goals focused on deeper, more comprehensive outcomes - measurement of progress through embedded and adaptive assessment - learning designs that are personalized, competency-based, and supportive - blended and open-source implementation and change management - conditions that enable "breakthrough models" to succeed - broad and rapid scaling to match the widespread need