​15+ Awesome Google+ Tricks You Might Not Know About

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab Google is slowly but surely improving Google+ and trying to bringthe social network to the masses. Yet some of Google+’s best features are less than obvious for both avid Google Plussers…

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Who are the Learning Technologists? – Abridged Version

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The first thing you soon discover is that there are many labels or slogans for learning technology; these include educational technology, academic technology and instructional technology to name but a few. via the accidental technologist » Blog Archive…

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Promoting a Culture of Learning

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab Learning is a culture. It starts as a culture with the students as human beings needing to understand their environment. And it ends as a culture with students taking what we…

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What The Data Says About Students’ 21st Century Readiness

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab 21st century skills is a term that’s been bandied about for over a decade now.   Loosely, it refers to the creative and technology-based skills students are increasingly required to demonstrate…

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A comprehensive review of the literature on digital natives

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See on Scoop.it – Digital Fluency Patric Lougheed‘s insight: The discussion about ‘digital natives’ has gone quiet recently, and this paper might be one reason why. The authors have made a thorough review of the literature on this topic,…

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Webmaker/WebLiteracy Map

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See on Scoop.it – Digital Fluency A map of the skills and competencies people need to read, write and participate effectively on the web. See on wiki.mozilla.org

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Out With the Degree, In With the Badge: How Badges Motivate Learning And 7 Tips To Use It Right

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab “But society as a whole will benefit enormously. The store of human capital will  be more broadly and accurately represented by credentials that are useful in a  mobile, interconnected world. Separating…

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Benefits of Tin-Can API | LearnDash

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For years, any legitimate learning management system adhered to the Shareable Content Object Reference Model (or SCORM), which is a collection of standards and specifications for web-based learning. Nerd-talk aside, it was the “stuff” that recorded when someone…

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Ready or Not, Change is Coming | Inside Higher Ed

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See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab While almost every other consumer facing industry has deployed advanced social networking and personalization and anticipatory analytics capabilities in the cloud—and, as important, made these accessible on any device—higher education’s technology…

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Learning Analytics – Where’s my data?

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See on Scoop.it – Moodlicious A while ago I wrote a blog about learning analytics from different perspectives giving examples of different analytics based tools that could benefit different users. Since then I’ve had discussions with numerous people, many of…

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