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The Virtual Learning Commons (VLC) is a project initiated by the Learning Technologies Centre at the University of Manitoba, in response to the changing interests and needs of learners entering higher education. Learning, conceived as a social...

Ours is an era of active involvement and participation. Technically, tools are now readily available for increased engagement in media and learning. Participation opportunities allow for greater closeness: readers to authors, gamers to game creators,...

The first session of Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning explored research publications and projects related to teaching and learning with technology. Specific topics:<ol><li>Social networking: affordances and accessibility</li><li...

<p>The second Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning Seminar explored the following topics:</p> <ul> <li>Quality of educational technology research</li> <li>Web 2.0 research examples UStream</li> <li>Clickers in the classroom</li> <...

<p>The third Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning Seminar focuses on openness in education. The recent closure of Utah State's OpenCourseWare project, Creative Commons as a licensing scheme, OpenEducation 2009, and numerous open...

In this paper, the authors analyze online communities and the recent development of open online courses (OOC) offered by traditional universities. Using the community of inquiry framework, the roles of educators and learners/participants are...

<p>The fourth Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning Seminar</p>

The fifth Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning Seminar.

<p>The sixth Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning Seminar.</p> <p>This session of Social Media: Trends and Innovations addressed the following topics:</p> <ul> <li>The future of education and the Internet</li> <li>Activity...

<p>The seventh Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning Seminar.</p>

<p>The eighth Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning Seminar.</p> <p>This session of Social Media: Trends and Implications included the following topics: Google Buzz, growth of social networking, educational research, enterprise-level...

Open Educational Resources (OER) are curriculum resources that have been purposely made available for free use in other educational contexts. While the concept of OER is attractive and has generated much enthusiasm especially for education in...

This house believes that in the next decade, digital scholarship (in open journals, blogs, and social media) will achieve the same status in academic settings as traditional scholarship.

Increased openness, two-way dialogue, and blurred distinctions between experts and amateurs have combined with numerous technology tools for dialogue, personal expression, networking, and community formation to "remake" conferences, influencing not...

Attempts to imagine the future of education often emphasize new technologies--ubiquitous computing devices, flexible classroom designs, and innovative visual displays. But the most dramatic factor shaping the future of higher education is something...

Over the last decade, as educators have increasingly experimented with social technologies and interactive pedagogies, the concept of a "course" has been significantly challenged. In particular, questions have arisen as to the key value of the...