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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)

...a new open source platform that will give individual educators and universities the ability to create MOOCs of their own

"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

(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

= notetaking, sharing resources, commenting, amplifying, asking questions, helping one another, offering suggestions, building community, and opening the classroom (from Derek Bruff, the Assistant Director at the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University)

Good summary of state of tag implementations in HTML5 spec

In our new world of online plenty, "no matter what you are interested in you can go online and join a group of people attracted to something because they want to learn about it", ... "It also means education, knowledge and achievement are opening up to a much broader range of students, particularly visual learners who didn't have a chance to shine in text-based education systems, international e-learning expert Marc Prensky says. "What many educators often forget is that reading and writing, although they have enjoyed primacy for hundreds of years, are very artificial ways to communicate, store and retrieve information," he says." ... "We have to get over the myth that mobile phones have eaten the brains of our children and talk productively about using new communications tools. "There is an untapped reservoir of interest and enthusiasm, and if you can find the right tasks [that] empower students, it's like reaching a [teaching] tipping point," Allen says.

Came across this on a blog for OER

From Commonwealth of Learning - July 2011

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

Also allows for providing voice feedback for assessments using Speed Grader app.

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.