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Interactive art has become much more common as a result of the many ways in which the computer and the Internet have facilitated it. Issues relating to human-computer interaction (HCI) are as important to interactive art making as issues relating to the colours of paint are to painting. It is not that HCI and art necessarily share goals. It is just that much of the knowledge of HCI and its methods can contribute to interactive art making. This paper reviews recent work that looks at these issues in the art context. In interactive digital art, the artist is concerned with how the artwork behaves, how the audience interacts with it and, ultimately, in participant experience and their degree of engagement. The paper looks at these issues and brings together a collection of research results and art practice experiences that together help to illuminate this significant new and expanding area. In particular, it is suggested that this work points towards a much needed critical language that can be used to describe, compare and discuss interactive digital art.

Richard has becom one of the world's most in demand speakers on topics around leadership, creativity and harnessing the potential of people. He is an author and frequent contributer to both the national and trade press. He is also a regular on the broadcast media with recent appearances on The Politics Show and on The Today Programme. His passion has and always will be the transformation of education to ensure that it helps our young meet the challenges of their future and to that end the majority of work carried out by the education starnd of IC-ED is with that aim in mind.

Called the "Pied Piper of Educational Technology" by The School Library Journal, Tim has worked in the field of education for nearly 30 years as a teacher (on the middle school, high school, and college levels) and an administrator. He served the students in the Cobb County School District for about 20 years, where, before his retirement, he was the principal of Mabry Middle School. He was named one of Georgia's High Performance Principals by Governor Sonny Purdue.
Tim has a passion for meaningful, authentic student engagement, and technology is seen as a centerpiece for irresistible academic achievement through creative, global, project-based learning activities. He has now turned his attention to supporting the profession on a national and international level by sharing his passion and practical expertise for integrating technology into the entire school plan-a proven vision that works.

What Is An Annotation? Simply, an annotation is some extra data that can be associated with each tweet - data that followers might never see. Each annotation has three fields: a namespace, key and value - and each tweet can have several annotations. The namespace explains what the annotation describes. It could be a book, a meal, a place or pretty much anything. The key and value provide data within the context of the namespace - the author of the book, price of the meal, etc.

Is social media the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Eric Qualman from Socialnomics thinks so! This is another great visualisation of the latest social media statistics that always makes for a few minutes well spent watching! It provides a range of great stats like these… By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers 96% of them have joined a social network 1 out of 8 couples married in the US last year have met via social media Facebook added 100 million users in 9 months If Facebook would be a country, it would be the world?s 4th largest 80% of companies are using LinkedIn as their primary tool to find employees 80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices. People update anywhere, anytime. Imagine what that means for bad customer experiences? In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world There are over 200.000.000 Blogs. 54% of bloggers post content or tweet daily.

Teaching is not the be-all and end-all of higher education but it does make the single biggest contribution to the student learning experience and student success. The way institutions use their resources make the biggest difference to educational outcomes. He picks out class size, the level of student effort and engagement, who does the teaching, and quality of feedback to students on their work as the significant and valid process indicators

The Journal of the Learning Sciences provides a multidisciplinary forum for the presentation of research on learning and education. The journal seeks to foster new ways of thinking about learning that will allow our understanding of cognition and social cognition to have impact in education. It publishes research articles that advance our understanding of learning in real-world situations and of promoting learning in such venues, including articles that report on the roles of technology can play in promoting deep and lasting learning. The Journal of the Learning Sciences promotes engaging and thoughtful participation in learning activities, and articles reporting on new methodologies that enable rigorous investigation of learning in real-world situations.

The American Journal of Distance Education is the internationally recognized journal of research and scholarship in the field of American distance education. Distance education explores topics central to teaching-learning relationships where the actors are geographically separated and communication takes place through technologies such as audio and video broadcasts, teleconferences and recordings, printed study guides, and multimedia systems. The principal technology of current research interest is the Internet, and subfields of distance education such as online learning, e-learning, distributed learning, asynchronous learning, and blended learning are of particular interest to the journal.

The focus of iPad Academy is the iPad in higher education. The primary audience is the professionals who work there, the faculty and staff who want to know more about using the iPad in teaching, learning and professional development. This site is for educators and trainers who want to improve their own iPad knowledge and skills, and in doing so, help colleagues, coworkers and students do the same.

The Institute of Educational Technology (IET) at the Open University connects innovation and expertise in learning and teaching and uses this collective power to change the face of education.
IET's programme of work is at the heart of the Open University's mission to be a world leader in the design, content and delivery of supported open and distance learning through the innovative use of technology.

This paper defines and examines three generations of distance education pedagogy. Unlike earlier  classifications of distance education based on the technology used, this analysis focuses on the  pedagogy that defines the learning experiences encapsulated in the learning design. The three  generations of cognitive-behaviourist, social constructivist, and connectivist pedagogy are  examined, using the familiar community of inquiry model (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2000) with its focus on social, cognitive, and teaching presences.

Auricle has existed in one form or another since the early 1980s. It first started life as a newsletter prepared on what was then the innovative Acorn/BBC microcomputer and printed using a humble dot matrix computer. This blog version of Auricle was launched in January 2004. It was one of the first UK Higher Education blogs addressing issues relating to the use (and sometimes abuse) of learning technologies. It was originally a multi-author blog and was previously hosted by the University of Bath before moving to the permanent auricle.org domain. It has been curated and contributed to since its inception by Derek Morrison.

When reality is labeled unthinkable, it creates a kind of sickness in an industry. Leadership becomes faith-based, while employees who have the temerity to suggest that what seems to be happening is in fact happening are herded into Innovation Departments, where they can be ignored en masse. This shunting aside of the realists in favor of the fabulists has different effects on different industries at different times. One of the effects on the newspapers is that many of their most passionate defenders are unable, even now, to plan for a world in which the industry they knew is visibly going away.

Research in Learning Technology is the journal of the Association for Learning Technology. It aims to raise the profile of research in learning technology, encouraging research that informs good practice and contributes to the development of policy. The journal publishes papers concerning the use of technology in learning and teaching in all sectors of education, as well as in industry.

The reconstructive nature of human memory (and what this means for research documentation. A a classic piece of psychology research that should get you thinking about the strangely malleable nature of human memory: Loftus & Palmer (1974) on the reconstructive nature of human memory 

Editor's Note: This is a milestone article that deserves careful study. Connectivism should not be con fused with constructivism. George Siemens advances a theory of learning that is consistent with the needs of the twenty first century. His theory takes into account trends in learning, the use of technology and networks, and the diminishing half-life of knowledge. It combines relevant elements of many learning theories, social structures, and technology to create a powerful theoretical construct for learning in the digital age.

Computing and communication technology continue to make an ever-increasing impact on all aspects of cognition, education and training, from primary to tertiary and in the growing open and distance learning environment. The journal is an established technically-based, interdisciplinary forum for communication in the use of all forms of computing in this socially and technologically significant area of application and will continue to publish definitive contributions to serve as a reference standard against which the current state-of-the-art can be assessed.

This is the official journal of the IFIP Technical Committee on Education. It covers the complex relationships between information and communication technologies and education. The journal provides perspectives at all levels, from the micro of specific applications or instances of use in classrooms to macro concerns of national policies and major projects; from classes of five year olds to adults in tertiary institutions; from teachers and administrators, to researchers and designers; from institutions to open, distance and lifelong learning.

Log usability tests like a proObserving a usability test seems simple but it's easy to lose focus during a session and record only the dramatic or obvious usability problems. As you watch the test, you should make minute-by-minute observations of the participant's behaviour as single letter codes. Datalogging ensures you note all behaviours, not just the ones that stand out, and provides all you need to quickly create a list of usability issues you can pass to the design team.

This paper suggests there is benefit in moving from andragogy towards truly self-determined learning. The concept of truly self-determined learning, called heutagogy, builds on humanistic theory and approaches to learning described in the 1950s. It is suggested that heutagogy is appropriate to the needs of learners in the twenty-first century, particularly in the development of individual capability. A number of implications of heutagogy for higher education and vocational education are discussed.