The presenters will describe their work over the past two years with 53 researchers in blended learning from all over the world. The result of the project was the book Blended Learning Research Perspectives: Volume II.
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.
12 Jan 2014 - A very interesting (and believable) take on the future of online learning in the next 5 - 10 years. Check out the list of future choices for: Students and learners; Faculty and instructors; Institutions; and Government.
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.
Student groups can work together to annotate the same Google Map! A Google account is needed and sharing is done in a similar way as other Google Drive tools (e.g. Docs, Sheets, Slides etc).
The start of an interesting four-part series about how teachers can take students on a journey from consumption of media to curation, creation, and connection.
April 3-4 2013: ...we will engage the teaching and learning community in exploring this new online course model. Tour institutional examples of MOOCs, various instructional designs and delivery models, processes, methodologies for setting up and evaluating the model, and implications for teaching and learning.
At the core of connected learning are three values:
1. Equity -- when educational opportunity is available and accessible to all young people, it elevates the world we all live in.
2. Full Participation -- learning environments, communities, and civic life thrive when all members actively engage and contribute.
3. Social connection -- learning is meaningful when it is part of valued social relationships and shared practice, culture, and identity.
Also see videos at http://connectedlearning.tv/what-is-connected-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.