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An excellent online resource (with tipsheets, tutorials etc.) that focuses on finding, creating, managing, delivering and using digital resources.

From Jenny Gilbert in the OZ?NZ Educators Diigo Group: This is a must for those teachers looking for support and resources via online networks in twitter and Google Plus. Is this also a useful resource for Fac of Ed Academics?

A new resource about blended learning. See project website - https://akoaotearoa.ac.nz/blended-approaches-learner-engagement

July 30-August 1 = a free, online program of webinars, activities, resources, and discussions focused on the transformative elements of MOOCs-connectedness, scale, data, and new models-and IT's role.

From Commonwealth of Learning - July 2011

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

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)

This blog follows CSU's investigation into mobile learning including iPad trials. Also see http://www.csu.edu.au/division/landt/resources/mobilelearning

The Mobile Learning infoKit is a developing resource from JISC infoNet launched at ALT-C 2011 alongside the new JISC publication Emerging Practice in a Digital Age (September 2011). Sections = Introduction; Strategy; Pedagogy; Implementation; Snapshots; Case Studies

= 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)

A fantastic resource for lecturers that introduces a range of educational technologies - supported by examples, activities, references, videos etc

Video interviews and resources

Also has PDF handouts in Resources: http://facebookforeducators.org/handouts

"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. "

PLNs were discussed quite a bit at the 2012 ascilite conference. Interesting to think of own PLN as a 'space' for learning.

Seems to be an extension of the flipped classroom idea.

Alternative classroom designs have emerged that support collaborative learning and shift the focus away from lecture-based formats.