Two Potential Futures Our forecast suggests that the learning ecosystem is going to diversify, and indeed has already started to do so. At the American Alliance of Museums' convening on the future of education Glimpses of the Future of Education By Katherine Prince, Senior Director, Strategic Foresight, KnowledgeWorks A detail of a KnowledgeWorks infographic on the future of learning. For the complete infographic go to knowledgeworks. org/strategic-foresight. 1 ® Glimpses of Future Educationin September, I had the pleasure of sharing two plausible scenarios for how the future may take shape. We could find ourselves living in: * a vibrant learning grid in which all of us who care about learning create a flexible and radically personalized learning ecosystem that meets the needs of all learners, or * a fractured landscape in which only those whose families have the time, money and resources to customize or supplement their learning journeys have access to learning that adapts to and meets their needs.

Plugins to support text book authoring. Designed for the open textbook project.

Tii buys up an automated lesson scoring / writing assessment tool.

The hidden side of discrimination in HE.

Examples of scripting. "The aim of Desktop Liberation  and its related blog is to encourage you to take advantage of web capabilities without being constrained by your desktop software. You'll see a few techniques, tips and tricks for sure, as well as fully functional sample applications in various languages and frameworks, with a particular emphasis on Google Technology.   All code is of course unprotected and free to re-use. For more details see Reusing code from this site. Examples are downloadable here and throughout the site."

Commercial video for class tool.

How advertising told females that computing was nothing to do with them. Discrimination 101.

Allows a live translated chat using Google Sheets and a script

Serious games / gamification. This is an interesting model built around personal health. The 'See how it works' link gives a handy diagram to visualise the structure in applying game theory.

"To save everything, click here' - a review of Morozov's book which sounds interesting enough to read ... if I can just get off the Internet.

An attempt to integrate xMooc and cMooc ideas in an upcoming Mooc. The description eventually sounds horrendously complicated - but then so can describing making a cup of tea so let's see what it turns out like.

Do/might PLPs allow learners to identify their route through learning (especially on open courses)?

Neat article on common mistakes made when interpreting research.

Alan's resources from his 2014 NZ tour including a stop at Waikato.