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"Australia went from lagging to leading the worldwide smartphone revolution in just one year, a major study by Google has revealed. Mobile internet usage by Australians now rivals that of PCs for activities like social networking and, soon, shopping, Google found."

Interesting PDF linking pedagogical activities to learning space deisgn

The Action Mapping diagram could be a useful way to visualise learning design and move the focus to activity and situate content on the periphery.

Student as Producer is a development of the University of Lincoln's policy of research-informed teaching to research-engaged teaching. Research-engaged teaching involves more research and research-like activities at the core of the undergraduate curriculum

"All students today are increasingly expected to develop technological fluency, digital citizenship, and other twenty-first century competencies despite wide variability in the quality of learning opportunities schools provide. Social network sites (SNSs) available via the internet may provide promising contexts for learning to supplement school-based experiences. This qualitative study examines how high school students from low-income families in the USA use the SNS, MySpace, for identity formation and informal learning. The analysis revealed that SNSs used outside of school allowed students to formulate and explore various dimensions of their identity and demonstrate twenty-first century skills; however, students did not perceive a connection between their online activities and learning in classrooms. We discuss how learning with such technologies might be incorporated into the students overall learning ecology to reduce educational inequities and how current institutionalized approaches might shift to accommodate such change."

Facilitating Online is a course intended for training educators as online facilitators of fully online and mixed mode courses. The Centre for Educational Technology (CET) produced a Course Leader's Guide as an Open Educational Resource to assist educators and trainers who wish to implement a course on online facilitation within their institution or across several institutions. The guide contains the course model, week-by-week learning activities, general guidance to the course leader on how to implement and customise the course and specific guidelines on each learning activity.

One of the activities we are currently all engaged with is mapping our existing curriculum design processes and developing a baseline document of curriculum design which we can use as a benchmark of progress achieved on the projects. A key issue for all of us is how to represent curriculum design - what representations might be useful, for what purposes and for whom?

Wheel of competencies, assessments and supporting technologies with a more useful table describing potential activities and fleshing out the competencies and rationale.

Useful account of social media for researchers by Cetis's Brian Kelly highlighting wide variation in use.

Details of a rating system for learning spaces to see how ell they support active learning.

A set of measurable criteria to assess how well the design of classrooms support and enable active learning

Great post exploring the fractured world of CC licensing and why this author is sticking to CC-BY (Part 1 of 2)

Great post exploring the fractured world of CC licensing and why this author is sticking to CC-BY (Part 2 of 2)

Very interesting.

"Below are my 10 top uses of Twitter for education..."

Nicky's PhD on elearning.