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"Meta-data contains a great deal of information, and when gathered together it forms a startlingly clear picture of the person it comes from. A point that Professor César Hidalgo and graduate students Daniel Smilkov and Deepak Jagdish of MIT are trying to get across. They have created a new program called Immersion. It works by signing you into your Gmail account and collecting only the meta-data from your account usage history. From there you can get a picture of your emailing habits from that single account, and you will be shocked at what you see."

"...we should expand what we think of as digital literacy to include a broader, meta-understanding of the context and history of the digital tools and media..."

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Excellent piece on the meta-rhetoric surrounding the demise of (Thrun's) Moocs.

"Optimal learning occurs when students are active participants in their own learning, rather than passive recipients of teacher-delivered content. For this to be effective, students really need to think about their learning. I worked with a group of teachers recently who felt their young students were not capable of writing meaningful reflections for their end of semester reports. That might be true. But only if reflection and meta-cognition are not integral parts of the learning in their classes."

Minocha search on OU research repository. Has written a lot on effectiveness etc of blogs, wikis and social software for learning.

"If you are asking this question, you should probably continue teaching f2f.  However, you might not be able to teach f2f,"