Resources

AllTop - an “online magazine rack” of popular topics. Tell them what you're interested in, and they'll bring you stories from the best websites and blogs on the topic. All the topics, all the time. CopyBlogger - all about content, social media, marketing and the like. Chris Brogan - community and social media expert. [|eLearningLearning] - an aggregate of eLearning Blogs by some of the industry's top thinkers and most prolific writers. Gdgt- Gadgets Searchblog- intersection of search, media, technology, and more. STREETtech - personal technology reviews. = = =Essential Presentations=

Origins of today's curriculum, assessment and instruction

Theory and Theorists of Distance Education by M. Moore

=Interesting Articles=

The Truth About Twitter - Dave Wilkinson: //The Social Enterprise Blog//

The Long Tail - Chris Anderson's now legendary article describing the way internet marketing works. A must-read for anyone who is involved in producing findable web content.

[|What is a PLE?]

[|Aiding Academics to move from knowledge management to knowledge creation: Conceptualisation of a Personal Academic Environment (pdf)]

[|The Theory and Practice of Online Learning]

[|Online personal learning environments: structuring electronic portfolios for lifelong and life-wide learning]

[|The 'new' connectivities of digital education]

[|Assessing Enhancement of Learning, Personal Learning Environment, and Student Eficacy: Alternatives to Traditional Faculty Evaluation in Higher Education (PDF)]

[|The Ed Techie: Using learning environments as a metaphor for educational change]

[|Vygotsky and Personal Learning Environments]

=Complementary Resources =

· //The International review of Research in Open and Distance Education// //[|http://www. irrodl.org/index]//__. php/irrodl __ The whole text can be downloaded in pdf format. · //Open Education// (The Journal for Open and Distance Education and Educational Technology) __ http ://www. e u rod l. o rg/// __ // · //American Journal of Distance Education []// · //Distance Education //(accessible via the UOC Digital library) · //Australasian Journal of Educational Technology //[] · //Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC)// [] · The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IJAIED) []
 * JOURNALS**


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 * ** Title of page ** || ** Brent Wilson ** (University of Colorado at Denver School of Education) ||
 * ** URL ** || [|http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~bwilson/]
 * ** Author ** || Brent Wilson ||
 * ** Date queried ** || 12/04/09 ||
 * ** Description ** || Web site of Dr. Brent Wilson, lecturer in educational technology of the University of Colorado; in Denver. It contains articles and bibliography of interest on instructional design, educational technology in general, Internet-based learning and learning communities. ||

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 * ** T ****itle of page** || ** Learning Circuits- ** ASTD's Online Magazine. All About E-learning ||
 * ** URL ** || []
 * ** Author ** || American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) ||
 * ** Date queried ** || 12/04/09 ||
 * **Description** || ASTD electronic journal that contains articles, columns and reference to learning based on the use of ICT. ||

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 * ** T ****itle of page** || ** Design of Constructivist Learning Environments ** ||
 * ** URL ** || [|http://tiger.coe.missouri.edu/~jonassen/courses/CLE/]
 * ** Author ** || Dr. David; Jonassen (University of Missouri) ||
 * ** Date queried ** || 12/04/09 ||
 * ** Description ** || This web page features some of the contributions by Dr. Jonassen to instructional design, on the basis of his courses. ||

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 * ** T ****itle of page** || ** MIT OpenCourseWare ** ||
 * ** URL ** || []
 * ** Author ** || Massachussets Institute of Technology, USA ||
 * ** Date queried ** || 12/04/09 ||
 * ** Description ** || A training proposal can be accessed directly here, and it permits interaction with some of its components. ||


 * ** T ****itle of page** || ** Online Learning Daily ** ||
 * ** URL ** || [] ||
 * ** Author ** || Stephen Downes, Institute for Information Technology’s e-Learning Research Group, Canada ||
 * ** Date queried ** || 04/03/09 ||
 * ** Description ** || Scads of articles about the research in the field of e-learning can be found on this site. ||


 * ** T ****itle of page** || ||
 * ** URL ** || []

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 * ** Author ** || British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, UK ||
 * ** Date queried ** || 06/03/09 ||
 * ** Description ** || Advice and resources for technology enhanced learning can be found on this website. ||


 * ** T ****itle of page** || ||
 * ** URL ** || [] ||
 * ** Author ** || Association of Learning Technology, UK

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 * ** Date queried ** || 02/03/09 ||
 * ** Description ** || ALT is a professional and scholarly association which seeks to bring together all those with an interest in the use of learning technology. ||


 * Conferences**


 * ** T ****itle** || **Open EdTech Summit** UOC 2009 ||
 * ** Website ** || Website & wiki ||
 * **Twitter stream** || Twitterstream (#oet09) ||
 * ** Date ** || 20/10/09 ||
 * ** Date ** || 20/10/09 ||