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Five stages of Twitter - a funny but perceptive overview of Twitter user stages based on Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief

I think that this is useful to help inform senior leadership. We might 'know' or agree with a lot of this stuff but getting engagement at higher levels may well be helped by Tony's well laid out post.

Tony Bates gives his preliminary conclusions of the important things in strategic planning for integrating technology use in HE. Some good statements around what can make integration successful.

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"The report highlights a number of recurring issues surrounding the potential benefit of information and communications technology (ICT) to learning and teaching in post-compulsory education."

"This knowledge base features learning theories that address how people learn. A resource useful for scholars of various fields such as educational psychology, instructional design, and human-computer interaction. Below is the index of learning theories, grouped in somewhat arbitrary categories. Note that this website is an iterative project and these entries are a work in progress; please leave comments with suggestions, corrections, and additional references."

"'We found no evidence for any discontinuity in technology use around the age of 30 as would be predicted by the Net Generation and Digital Natives hypothesis,' says the report. What the reseachers do find interesting and worthy of further study is the correlation--which is independent of age--between attitudes to technology and approaches to studying. In short, students who more readily use technology for their studies are more likely than others to be deeply engaged with their work."

That last point is pretty powerful. Need to get the data replicated elsewhere as next stage. But as always, different people are different!

A starting (and end?) point for our OER workshop later this month?

A list.

Comments on flaws in the 'instructional design' model of development. From CQU.

"Brown University announced Monday that it had 'Gone Google'... tools like Google Apps, ... could, in some cases, mitigate the need for a full-fledged LMS."

Latest report. Mobile and open - 1 year; eBook and Augmented reality - 3years.

Lots and lots of short slides or vids on doing things with Google tools.

Opinion piece on the place of online lectures in the future of education.  Get your world class expert via YouTube, MIT, etc and use your time with students to really interact with them and the material.

Anything that has been bookmarked in Diigo with www.waikato.ac.nz in the URL

Some fantastic films available here as well as ebooks and lists of other sites.

Doug Belshaw posts about "Attendance" and what that means at University. Some good slides to accompany on using digital media to improve L&T. "Embracing OERs, mobile learning and digital literacies looks to me like the mark of a forward-thinking learning organization."

I like the way he brings in Hattie's research--great minds think alike ;-)

Unfortunately this is stuff we need to keep aware of. Do we push RSS as a channel or not? Still can for a while certainly - news etc, will need to see where it goes.

"...the average user has no way of pulling that data out of Twitter or Facebook."