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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

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It is literally the ‘ architecture of participation ’ (O''Reilly, 2004; Barsky and Purdon, 2006) and demands active engagement as a natural facet of its character (Kamel Boulos and Wheeler, 2007). A Social Web that supports learning Staff at the University of Plymouth have been using Web 2.0 Continued tomorrow References Barsky, E.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

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In October of 2006 , Gartner said that Apple’s “best bet for long-term success is to quit the hardware business and license the Mac to Dell.” ” Take “collaborative learning,” for example, which this year’s K–12 report posits as a mid-term trend. Apple sold just 50 million iPads.

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10Q: Cathy N. Davidson

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For eight years (1998-2006) I was essentially the R and D person for the university, Duke's first full-time Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies (the first anywhere in the US in fact), charged with innovation across all eight schools of the university, and with the delicious mandate to "break things and make things."

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What's on the Horizon (Still, Again, Always) for Ed-Tech

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The topic names have been modified “for consistency,” the report’s authors say (although I’m a little unclear about some of these choices – how are “mobile learning,” “tablet computing,” and “bring your own device” separate technological developments? Mobile Learning.