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Moocs as capitalist ventures which will parasitically destroy academia and also produce poor returns for learners. This is an economic landgrab of huge proportions.

Posters with useful strategies for learners.

Short post on using social media with learners.

Site on Open Educational Practice - OEP. P{erhaps a more embracing term than OER.

Wonderful example of giving learners agency. Intermediate age kids on an induction day. 180 kids, no teachers!

"MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses for free to a virtual community of learners around the world. It will also enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences. The first MITx course, 6.002x (Circuits and Electronics), will be launched in an experimental prototype form. Watch this space for further upcoming courses, which will become available in Fall 2012."

Universal Design for Learning. For ALL learners rather than retro fitting for accessibility, different abilities, special needs.

A few months ago, I discovered MentorMob (MM), which allows any user to create "learning playlists" to share or open up to other fellow learners who might want to add or edit the content in the playlist. The end product is the ultimate learning tool for students, especially when the playlist is populated with high-quality content, including visual, audio and interactive elements. MM playlists make sense because they "scaffold" learning in a very visual and intuitive way. The lists are simple to make, follow, edit, co-author and collaborate. "

Interesting search engine that searches in 2 languages side by side. Useful for language learners.

"Howard Rheingold offers a glimpse of the future of high-end online learning in which motivated self-learners collaborate via a variety of social media to create, deliver, and learn an agreed curriculum: a mutant variety of pedagogy that more closely resembles a peer-agogy."

Streaming media service. A youTube for schools.  Based in UK. Guessing most things might be levelled too low for us but maybe stuff for ESOL learners?

The core proposition is that with the unprecedented amounts of digital data now becoming  available about learners' activities and interests, from educational institutions and elsewhere online, there is significant potential to make better use of this data to improve learning  outcomes.

More than a decade into the 21st century and we are still keeping learners and teachers prisoners of the analog past by enforcing outdated mandates that ban and block them from using the digital resources of their world. 

"This research report draws together findings from new data and more than 10 years of research on current practice and futures-thinking in education. It was commissioned by the Ministry of Education to support its programme of work to develop a vision of what future-oriented education could look like for New Zealand learners"

Why lecture capture should be a given. Great learner viewpoint on their value.

Project to make lab sessions more useful for learners.  Builds on Moodle 2 with some custom PHP. Still a development project - see the docs at the bottom of the page for better detail.

Some staff resources on using Tii formatively with learners.

Looks like a useful set of papers on learning and teaching online - design, tutoring, mobile, communities, assessment, social, etc

Nine evidence-based elearning guides:Tutoring on-line; Web-based course design; Learner acceptance of on-line learning and e-learning; Learning objects and repositories; Learning using mobile and hand-held devices; On-line communities; Technology-supported assessment; Learning environments; Using social software in learning.