The Open University has released the 2014 edition of its ‘Innovating Pedagogy‘ report, the third edition of an annual educational technology trend report. While the timelines may remind you of  the Horizon Report, the methodology for gathering the trends is … Read more

From  October 27-30, I attended the 19th annual, international conference AACE E-Learn in New Orleans. Here are the slides for my talks:  

This is definetely on my reading list. http://jolt.merlot.org/currentissue.html Foreword to the Special Section: MOOCs – Evolution or Revolution? Sir John Daniel i-iv * Research Papers * Challenges to Research in MOOCs Helene Fournier, Rita Kop, and Guillaume Durand 1-15 Participants’ … Read more

The White House has just released a report on “Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values” (85 pages, PDF) along with a collection of supporting documents. The report is the culmination of a 90-day review by the Administration, spearheaded by Counselor … Read more

See more at: http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/02/18/my-vision-for-an-open-textbook/ and here: http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/03/03/getting-started-in-writing-an-open-textbook/ What Tony Bates describes sounds like an exciting project and an English counterpart to the open textbook initiative L3T in the German speaking areas. This collaborative textbook on learning and teaching with technology is … Read more

ADD E-Learn: AACE E-Learn Special Interest Group on Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning – Member Survey Results and Plans for 2014 from Stefanie Panke Making the complex clear, turning difficult into intriguing, raising intellectual curiosity, supporting creative problem solving, posing … Read more

“Over the past decade, social media has evolved from being an esoteric jumble of technologies to a set of sites and services that are at the heart of contemporary culture.” In her new book ‘It’s complicated‘ danah boyd, a researcher … Read more

Source: Pew Internet Research Center (2014). E-Reading Rises as Device Ownership Jumps. (PDF, online). Quick Facts at a glance: Rising level of familiarity with e-books: The percentage of US-American adults who read an e-book in the past year has risen … Read more

I just came across an interesting article from the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, a great resource for people interested in digital literacy, information design and the social practices surrounding these fields. Rude, C. D. (2009). Mapping the research … Read more

Competence Assessment Carolina MPA Program from Stefanie Panke PosterISSOTL