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.

"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...".

The aim of Digital Learning Technologies is to provide the students with knowledge and practical experience in the digital technologies in the educational and training environment. This course will: Investigate technological developments influencing education and training; Investigate Online Pedagogy and Tools; Examine Digital Literacy and Networking Technologies; Analyse Social and Ethical Issues.

Came across this on a blog for OER

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.

What do we know about how people learn? How do young people's motivations and emotions influence their learning? What does research show to be the benefits of group work, formative assessments, technology applications, or project-based learning and when are they most effective? How is learning affected by family background? These are among the questions addressed for the OECD by leading researchers from North America and Europe. This book brings together the lessons of research on both the nature of learning and different educational applications, and it summarises these as seven key concluding principles.

George Seimens blog on elearning resources and news