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Great resource for students to test their academic writing?

This is a good 3D model showing the knowledge dimension and the cognitive process diemtion

"Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment."

As a longtime faculty member at a major research institution and now an executive academic officer at an OPM, I believe faculty are the richest resource for preserving an institution's core values, especially in times of intense change.

The concept of the hidden curriculum rarely has been applied to distance education, though the related discipline of educational technology frequently has been accused of hiding a multitude of agendas.

Horizon thinking from 2012, useful from a strategy and policy perspective.

Western universities receive strong scores on student-staff interaction, while those in Japan are rated highly on applying students' learning to the 'real world'

'Openness' is a central contested value of modern liberalism that falls under different political, epistemological and ethical descriptions. In this chapter, we employ 'openness' to analyze the spatialization of learning and education. We discuss dimensions of openness and 'open education' (Peters & Britez, 2008), beginning with a brief history of openness in education that focuses on the concept of the Open University as it first developed in the United Kingdom during the 1960s, a development we dub Open University 1.0.

Computer technologies and computer-mediated information and communication are increasingly parts of curriculum-making practices in education. These technologies are often taken to be simply tools to be used to enhance teaching and learning. However, in recent years, a range of cross-disciplinary studies have started to point to the work of code, algorithms and standards in selecting and shaping the information, forms of knowledge and modes of interaction available to teachers and students. Concerns have been raised about how data is selected, shaped and represented by software in ways which are not always apparent to those using computer technologies. In this sense, software can be considered as part of the hidden curriculum of education. Drawing upon the increasing research in software studies, this article explores theoretically some of the issues raised in relation to curriculum-making practices and possible lines of empirical research to be pursued.

Gilly Salmon talks about the Carpe Diem process. University of Derby is used as one of the casestudies.