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Theories and Models of Learning for Educational Research and Practice. This knowledge base features learning theories that address how people learn. A resource useful for scholars of various fields such as educational psychology, instructional design, and human-computer interaction.

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.

Get SMART!\nWhat is SMART?\nSMART (Skills Mapping and Reflection Tool) relates to the HE Academy's professional standards framework and the University's professional development framework that all staff involved in teaching and student support should satisfy.\nIt offers a series of statements based on the frameworks and gives you the opportunity to reflect on your teaching practice and judge your level of confidence. Having identified your strengths and areas for improvement, you can then use SMART to focus, plan and record your development.

The Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment (JTLA) is a peer-reviewed, scholarly on-line journal addressing the intersection of computer-based technology, learning, and assessment.

This is a leading international journal in the field of open, flexible and distance learning. Open Learning is widely subscribed to and read throughout the world by those in specialist distance education institutions, and also by those using distance, flexible and technology based forms of learning in conventional education and training contexts. Readers are drawn from all levels of education and training both in the private and public sectors and from academic, administrative and technical functions.

We are a 'Special Interest Group' and centre of expertise in social media/online worlds, based in the Department of Media Arts and Communication and the Faculty of Aces, Sheffield Hallam University. Members come from teaching and learning, research, business development and social inclusivity perspectives to collaborate in experimental and innovatory developments in and through social media.

This web-based resource aims to enable teachers and trainers to ensure that disabled learners are fully integrated into adult education by advising teachers/trainers and quality assurance staff on inclusive teaching/training and assessment strategies.

This single Journal provides an international forum for interdisciplinary communication on an increasingly significant subject: research into the applications, effects, and implications of computer-based education.

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.

The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC) is a web-based, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Its focus is social science research on computer-mediated communication via the Internet, the World Wide Web, and wireless technologies. Within that general purview, the journal is broadly interdisciplinary, publishing work by scholars in communication, business, education, political science, sociology, media studies, information science, and other disciplines. Acceptable formats for submission include original research articles, meta-analyses of prior research, synthesizing literature surveys, and proposals for special issues.

Community news for rthe digital age

This is a leading international journal in the field of open, flexible and distance learning. Open Learning is widely subscribed to and read throughout the world by those in specialist distance education institutions, and also by those using distance, flexible and technology based forms of learning in conventional education and training contexts. Readers are drawn from all levels of education and training both in the private and public sectors and from academic, administrative and technical functions.

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.

Insights and conversations on the next wave of technology

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.

This paper delivers a new Twitter content classification framework based 16 existing Twitter studies and a grounded theory analysis of a personal Twitter history. It expands the existing understanding of Twitter as a multifunction tool for personal, profession, commercial and phatic communications with a split level classification scheme that offers broad categorization and specific sub categories for deeper insight into the real world application of the service.

Using games to motivate students to take ownership of own learning. Derek Bok, a former president of Harvard, has promoted a shift from "a teacher-oriented system featuring lectures delivered to passive audiences" to a "learner-centered process in which students become more actively involved in their own education."