QUT Learning Design

An excellent online resource (with tipsheets, tutorials etc.) that focuses on finding, creating, managing, delivering and using digital resources.

The presenters will describe their work over the past two years with 53 researchers in blended learning from all over the world. The result of the project was the book Blended Learning Research Perspectives: Volume II.

Will produce 5 five stand-alone reports focusing on: part-time learners and learning; employer engagement and work-based learning; new pedagogical ideas; technology-enhanced learning; institutional systems and infrastructures.

Link: Beyond MOOCs Sustainable Online Learning in Institutions (PDF) Link: Beyond MOOCs Sustainable Online Learning in Institutions (MS Word .docx) Executive Summary The key opportunity for institutions is to take the concepts developed by the MOOC experiment to date and use them to improve the quality of their face-to-face and online provision, and to open up access to higher education.

Grade Change - Tracking Online Education in the United State is the eleventh annual report on the state of online learning in U.S. higher education. The survey is designed, administered and analyzed by the Babson Survey Research Group, with data collection conducted in partnership with the College Board. Using responses from more than 2,800 colleges and universities, this study is aimed at answering fundamental questions about the nature and extent of online education.

12 Jan 2014 - A very interesting (and believable) take on the future of online learning in the next 5 - 10 years. Check out the list of future choices for: Students and learners; Faculty and instructors; Institutions; and Government.

Cathy Moore runs a well-received blog on elearning. In this post she offers both tips (nothing too revelatory) & gotchas (where she has decided NOT to use certain tools, eg public chat, 'meaningless' polls & breakout rooms). She discusses webinars in general, not Collaborate specifically.

July 30-August 1 = a free, online program of webinars, activities, resources, and discussions focused on the transformative elements of MOOCs-connectedness, scale, data, and new models-and IT's role.

Student groups can work together to annotate the same Google Map! A Google account is needed and sharing is done in a similar way as other Google Drive tools (e.g. Docs, Sheets, Slides etc).

A great way to build visual representations for events from Twitter hashtags - and it's free!

The start of an interesting four-part series about how teachers can take students on a journey from consumption of media to curation, creation, and connection.

Excellent exa,mple of game theory, or indeed problem based learning in a university course.

A linguist's perspective on the evolution of language and using texting to replicate spoken language. Useful for our consideration of chat functionalities and the appearance of texting language in unexpected arenas.

2 lessons about how to improve student engagement in flipped classrooms

Data is from US schools, but still useful to see the bigger trends emerge...

"It's Big Brother, sort of, but with a good intent," said Tracy Hurley, the dean of the school of business. ... Hmmm???

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