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The survival of Higher Education (4): 5 key objectives

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The novelty value and opacity of technologies often prevent users from ‘seeing through them’, beyond the shiny toy with the buttons and lights, to a tool that is useful because it does something previous tools could not do (John and Wheeler, 2008). Universities must offer better and more sustainable support to academics. Unported License.

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Five things

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The novelty value and opacity of technologies often prevent users from ‘seeing through them’, beyond the shiny toy with the buttons and lights, to a tool that is useful because it does something previous tools could not do. Image by Freefoto Five things by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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Teacher Voices: Hannah Shelton

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Looking back, she must have also been in her first year or two of teaching but it was the first real instance of my school life where I really wanted to please, and I remember loving all of her positive praise rewards with cuddly toys sat on the winning table and lovely laminated certificates. Unported License.

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Teacher Voices: Naomi Hancock

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I had no idea what I wanted to do for a living until my mid twenties. I love interacting with the children and showing them new tools, tricks and toys. Here's an interview with Naomi Hancock (@Hancock_Naomi on Twitter), who graduated from Plymouth University in 2014. 1) What made you decide to become a teacher? What/who inspired you?

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Open all OERs

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IPR and Creative Commons were discussed. tools and OERs which both espouse openness, and concluded with some ideas about how OERs could benefit higher education in the future. He concluded with a reference to Apple's new toy, suggesting that the iPad will do to educational resources what the iPod did to popular music.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Learning to Work, Working to Learn

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Photo credits: Oh boy tinker toys! Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Have any to add? Revisiting Things dont seem to stick in my brain the way they used to. Check out eQuixotics award winning Articulate piece for a nice view of Evernotes capabilities.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace

Learning Visions

Ive been asking various questions about technology and tools in order to get a sense of where people are at, while also soliciting ideas and input for improving the use of technology to support learning throughout their member organization. However, ideas taken from Second Life, minus the cultural trappings, could be effective.

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