U. of Manitoba Researchers Publish Open-Source Handbook on Educational Technology

Chronicle: To help get colleges thinking about how they might adapt their teaching styles to the new ways students absorb and process information, Mr. Siemens and Peter Tittenberger, director of the center, have created a Web-based guide, called the Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning.

In case you didn’t see this recent Campus Computing Survey: “Community Colleges and the Economy”

“…survey of 120 community college presidents about the impact of the economic downturn on enrollments, hiring, budgets, and program development.”

Inside Higher Ed article.

Response to Nicholas Carr's 'Is Google Making Us Stupid?'

Worth a read:

"What Carr describes and is most worried about, how we"skim" and "bounce" around in our reading, is actually akind of new orality: We are reading as we speak when we are in a group. We "listen" to one statement, then another and another in quick succession: Our reading on the Web is like listening to a bunch of people talking. It's hybrid orality. We find ourselves once again the naturally gregarious humans we always were. We find ourselves creating knowledge continually and rapidly as our social contacts on the Web expand. We have re-discovered new ways to enjoy learning in a social setting." - Trent Batson

New Media Technologies and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

How might we merge a culture of inquiry into teaching and learning with a culture of experimentation around new media technologies? In this issue of Academic Commons we look at the possibilities for building knowledge around teaching and learning in a rapidly changing technological landscape. We take these questions up in the context of a dual challenge: to understand better the changing nature of learning with new media, and the potential of new media environments to make learning--and faculty insights into teaching--visible and usable.

Forget iTunes U: Students Now Getting College Credit via YouTube

A computer science professor at an Australian University is doing something revolutionary with YouTube - he's offering students who can't attend his classes college credit for watching his videos.

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