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The Slow Death of the Classroom Lecture

The 25 Basic Styles of Blogging ... And When To Use Each One

Steve Wheeler, Fac of Ed, University of Plymouth

Workforce Futures - a National Workforce Development Strategy for Australia. Our vision for this strategy is that Australia has the workforce capability it requires for a productive, sustainable and inclusive future, and that Australian enterprises have the capacity to develop and use the skills of their workforce to maximum advantage for the benefit of industry and the community. Skills Australia 2010

Eastern Institute of Technology - Hawke's Bay - NZ A model of effective learning developed by the teaching staff at the Institute

A collection of Captivate movies to assist in the use of Mahara.

CompendiumLD is a software tool for designing learning activities using a flexible visual interface. It is being developed as a tool to support lecturers, teachers and others involved in education to help them articulate their ideas and map out the design or learning sequence. Feedback from users suggests the process of visualising design makes their design ideas more explicit and highlights issues that they may not have noticed otherwise. It also provides a useful means of representing their designs so that they can be shared with others.

"Can online discussion be structured to achieve a high level of effective student participation without an increase on staff workload? This resource considers structuring sustainable online discussion by applying Bill Pelz's (2004) principle to online discussion: "Get the students to do (most) of the work." "

An overview of instructional design principles that may be used to guide beginning instructors in the creation of online learning courses and materials that support learner engagement and knowledge construction.

Characteristics of High Quality Technology Teaching and Learning

NYU professor Clay Shirky gave a fantastic talk on new media during our TED@State event earlier this month. He revealed how cellphones, the web, Facebook and Twitter had changed the rules of the game, allowing ordinary citizens extraordinary new powers to impact real-world events. As protests in Iran exploded over the weekend, we decided to rush out his talk, because it could hardly be more relevant. I caught up with Clay this afternoon to get his take on the significance of what is happening. HIs excitement was palpable.

Monica Rankin, professor of History at UT Dallas, wanted to know how to reach more students and involve more people in class discussions both in and out of the classroom.

The Australian Access Federation (AAF) provides a framework and support infrastructure to facilitate trusted electronic communications and collaboration within and between universities and research institutions in Australia and overseas. The AAF uses cutting edge technologies to provide a range of automatic identification services, which will allow authentication of people (researchers, teachers and students) and resources (servers, services, networks, instruments and data). It enables resource owners to identify and authorise a researcher to access online resources, such as computer facilities, data and other research infrastructure, at their home institution, at other Australian institutions, and around the world.

moment, it resembles a junk drawer with everything crammed in wherever it will fit, devoid of logic.

"The Seven Laws of Projects, and How to Break Them"

Second Nature Excellence is pleased to announce the launch of its UK division, Second Nature Excellence (UK) Limited. This new division will deliver the full range of Natural Excellence courses, including Natural Projects, Natural Sales and Natural Quality, into the UK including the Irish market.

Twittering the student experience by Alan Cann, Jo Badge, Stuart Johnson and Alex Moseley Background Based on our personal experience of Twitter, we were interested in examining what use students would make of the service and to what extent it could be used as a support channel.

Very interesting case study of the integration of Web 2.0 tools into the Moodle LMS.