Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

Link: Beyond MOOCs Sustainable Online Learning in Institutions (PDF)

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Executive Summary:

The key opportunity for institutions is to take the concepts developed by the MOOC experiment to date and use them to improve the quality of their face-to-face and online provision, and to open up access to higher education. Most importantly, the understanding gained should be used to inform diversification strategies including the development of new business models and pedagogic approaches that take full advantage of digital technologies.

SchoolCIO Advisors Blog

By Tim Clark, CIO Advisor

Sustainability is defined as the capacity to endure. Most people agree that the natural environment has to be sustained so that we can get long-lasting and renewable benefits from its resources. Similarly, we must develop sustainable practices that continue to support digital age learning within the learning environments of today’s schools. When the initial enthusiasm for shiny new technology devices begins to pale, what will help to keep the spark alive?

In my recent interview with theAnnex PressatFilm Annex's headquarters inNew York CityI described the importance ofdigital literacyin education, and the urgency of starting early in schools empowering young adults to take charge of their lives throughdigit...