eLearning Research Seminar on evaluating elearning CPD practice in Irish third-level institutions

Thanks to everyone who attended our first elearning research seminar on Thursday 1st February. The event proved to be highly enjoyable and there was much fruitful discussion! We look forward to the next seminar (onThursday 8th March) and hope it will be just as successful.

As a follow up to this seminar, here are a couple of articles and links that may be of interest.

2007 HORIZON REPORT ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
The 2007 Horizon Report is a collaboration between the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative that "seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education."

Some key trends that the report calls attention to include:
- Increasing globalization is changing the way we work, collaborate, and communicate.
- Information literacy increasingly should not be considered a given.
- Academic review and faculty rewards are increasingly out of sync with new forms of scholarship.
- The notions of collective intelligence and mass amateurization are pushing the boundaries of scholarship.
- Students' views of what is and what is not technology are increasingly different from those of faculty.

The complete report is available at http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2007_Horizon_Report.pdf

"e-learning: a fresh look" by Connolly et al in 'Higher Education Management and Policy' vol.18, no.3, pp.135-46. You can get the hardcopy in Mount Street Library or online via http://library.dit.ie/search/ .