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Paper presented at 2013 Moodle Research conference - part of final year undergraduate research at Cass. I think it's important to look at data directly from students. Can we make them real partners in the design and experience of courses?

Highlights * We explore factors affecting students' engagement with Moodle and Facebook. * Students were not interested in using Moodle, yet active on Facebook. * We use Activity Theory as a lens for data interpretation. * Factors are categorized as technological, individual, and community levels.

Hello there, Thanks for sharing this Ivan - good one I hope I can effectively operationalize some ideas. Thanks Z

Interesting! As are a number of the papers suggested afterwards which I will bookmark too! As an aside you may be interested in the paper Cass Business School students present to the Moodle Research Conference last year: http://research.moodle.net/mod/data/view.php?d=7&rid=124 One point of interest I'm keen to follow is the possible rise in more student-led studies (at City?) - in this case, both surveying students and by students. I'm also interested in how we could look more at involving learners in the design process.

This report has been developed as part of our research project Flexible Pedagogies: preparing for the future. Technology-enhanced learning is one of five main focus strands embedded within the theme of flexible learning. It offers a summary and analysis of the current state of play, as well as recommendations for developing robust and appropriate flexible pedagogies with a view to influencing policy, future thinking and change within the rapidly-shifting landscape of learning and teaching in HE.

Sandra, thank you for sharing this report. I hope to find some good insights for our "new" topic, final project and life in HE!

This study produced a number of papers, of which the most widely referenced in Mayes and de Freitas' study of relevant theories, frameworks and models. This concluded that existing models can be broadly classified as associative, constructive, or situative; that underlying principles of learning remain much the same regardless of the technologies incorporated into the learning situation; but that cosideration of the technologies available for use is now an essential aspect of educational planning, and constructively aligning the learning situation with the desired outcomes.

I am not sure how is this going to help but have a look. I found ideas of using technology in Learning very usefull and in line with our current topic.

I can see ideas for good Online Community practice here!

The highly regarded Wellcome Library in the United Kingdom has released a new web site with over 100,000 digital images for viewing, and in some cases, downloading. The images include "manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and advertisements," as well as contemporary images. Available art images include etchings by Vincent Van Gogh and Francisco Goya. Eadweard Muybridge's studies of motion are there as well, as are photographs covering a wide array of topics. This new trove of online images is clearly a treasure.

Pinterest might be another way to promote the sense of online community. Would you agree?

Annual report on education technology developments

Neil, thank you for sharing this resource. I am sure that other participants will find it useful in their studies. For me and having in mind my background I can see movement to "Data-Driven Learning and Assessment" and "Learning Analytics" as something happening in Aviation Safety already. There the intention is to be as proactive and hopefully predictive as possible. How about here?

A new report fropm the Higher Education Academy

New models of HE

Insight in how the knowledge is former through interraction and added value from number of users. Rhizomatic learning which is "...[k]nowledge constructed by self-aware communities adapting to environmental conditions."

A blog I found very informative. After all if your blog doesn't get red it is not 100% useful!

Hello Ivan, liked this. Easy to read and good follow up links. Thanks

A key journal in the uses of leaning technologies in Higher and further education

Different elements of good communication nowadays and before. Do they apply the same way to onlinc communications as well?

I have had Twitter account for some time but this is my first encounter with its potential application in Research.

Would a certain stage of online communities building allow us to use Instagram? Having in mind that we are all different some of us who are visual types might even like a photo from time to time instead of several dozen lines of text.

Entrepreneurship of Ideas is another form of Entrepreneurship. How to facilitate it using online communities!?