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the place and purpose of authentic assessment - based on the premise that when students leave education 'they should know what big people do'.

Another Michael Wesch presentation on youth culture and how changing media changes our engagement.

"For as long as eLearning has been around, it has been haunted by the voices of those who aim to criticize its authenticity, viability, and quality. But is it true? Do students of traditional institutions boast more success than those who've chosen distance learning? It's time for some of these myths to die."

"The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, collaborative, constructive, authentic, and goal directed (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells." Described at school level but a handy model. Perhaps we could adapt.

Technical doc on using Oauth2 with Google scripting.

Accompanying website to Jan Herrington's ASCILITE10 keynote.

"3 ways that technology and learning technologists can assist faculty who would like to experiment as Professor Davidson [http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/05/03/grading] has done with finding more authentic and effective ways to use grading to promote learning."

More stuff for the Analytics box. If this can grab authenticated data then return it through a dashboard display, it could give students a wide view of what they are doing - Moodle, library, facebook contacts with classmates etc.

"The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below."

Stefani paper on student engagement, the need for curriculum redesign and innovative and authentic assessment examples.

Using blogs as eportfolios. This is increasingly being argued as being a more authentic space than software specific eportfolios such as Mahara, Pebblepad, etc..

Yes - the problems are the same with cloud and on-premise systems i.e poor user attention to security eg weak passwords, no 2 factor authentication, etc.

"...the two main activities in a lecturer's job, research and teaching, work against each other." So why not get the students doing research too?

"To gain the full educational benefits of the major new investments in corporate technologies supporting online teaching and learning it is argued that a strategic, systems based approach to academic professional development (APD) is required. Such an approach requires a clear view of the key areas of potential and enduring teaching and learning benefit which can be realised from online developments, including an understanding of the changing role of the academic teacher in higher education, the identification of the desired professional capacities to educate online, and the implementation of a number of coordinated initiatives to develop these professional capacities in order to engage constructively with the learning and technology opportunities. Based on previous work, we propose a 6three model of Academic Professional Capacities Development for effective APD of online teaching and learning. The model can help inform the actions of policy makers, executives and practitioners in ways that promote an authentic learning organisation."

Blog post on ways to add realism to elearning situations

The purpose of this e-book is to explore the use of mobile devices in learning in higher education, and to provide examples of good pedagogy. We are sure that the rich variety of examples of mobile learning found in this book will provide the reader with the inspiration to teach their own subjects and courses in ways that employ mobile devices in authentic and creative ways. This book is made up of a collection of double blind peer-reviewed chapters written by participants in the project New technologies, new pedagogies: Using mobile technologies to develop new ways of teaching and learning.