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The 21st Learning Initiative investigates the nature of human learning and examines implications for education, work and community development.

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Sponsored by the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College, to share knowledge, develop collaborations, and evaluate and disseminate digital tools and innovative practices for teaching and learning with technology.

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The Academic Consortium (AC21) is an international network comprised of educational, research and industrial organizations throughout the world. The Consortium has been established to encourage the further advancement of global cooperation to the benefit of higher education and to contribute to world and regional society. AC21 plans active exchanges of students, faculty members and administrative staff, provides shared access to information on research interests and academic activities, develops cooperative education programs and supports international exchange of culture between local communities.

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The Higher Education Academy's database of Case Studies is intended to signpost users to useful and significant examples of practice taking place in UK higher education. It can be freely searched and browsed. It includes such case studies as: Achieving Accessible Assessment, at Nottingham Trent University; Allocation of Students to Groups for Assessed Coursework; An Approach to Seminar Teaching; An inquiry-based approach to academic study support: an evaluation of student and staff experiences from Sheffield Hallam University; Assessment audit tool; Assessment of the 'Vertical Project': Integrated Peer Assessment of a Group Project to Provide an Individual Grade for Students from Glasgow Caledonian University.

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The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years -- from 8% in 2005 to 35% now, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project's December 2008 tracking survey. While media coverage and policy attention focus heavily on how children and young adults use social network sites, adults still make up the bulk of the users of these websites.

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The USA Department of Defense and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) launched the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative in November 1997. The ADL will leverage ongoing work by related groups through partnership arrangements in academia, the commercial sector, and government. ADLNet is the virtual forum for collaboration, with tools like discussion forums, calendars, document repositories, and more. The ADL Strategy: to Promote widespread collaboration; Exploit Internet technologies; Develop next generation learning technologies; Create reusable content, and lower costs, with object-based tools. The purpose of the ADL initiative is to ensure access to high-quality education and training materials that can be tailored to individual learner needs and can be made available whenever and wherever they are required. This initiative is designed to accelerate large-scale development of dynamic and cost-effective learning software and to stimulate an efficient market for these products in order to meet the education and training needs of the military and the nation's workforce in the 21st century. It will do this through the development of a common technical framework for computer and net-based learning that will foster the creation of re-usable learning content as

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ALISON is a free interactive learning centre, with online skills training for a range of certification-based courses. These include European/International Computer Driving License (ECDL/ICDL), British Computer Society (BCS) Unit-E, BCS e-citizen, ICT, internet, financial literacy (US focused), and psychometric testing, for staff, students and individuals. The courses are offered for free, however registration is required to participate in any of the online courses.

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Members of the Alliance come from across all Carnegie classifications, representing community colleges, four-year public, private and for-profit institutions. The focus of A-HEC is on researching and sharing how higher education leaders are creating positive change by crystallising their mission, offering more effective academic programs, defining their role in society and putting in place balanced effectiveness measuress.

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The aim of this report is to investigate the impact of emerging technologies on education and training in Australia and to consider the implications for: learning and the learner; professional learning and educators; infrastructure and policy. In considering the impact of emerging technologies, discussion in this report is focussed on planning for the changes, rather than on individual technologies - as managing changing and evolving technologies in a way that benefits teaching and learning is, and will continue to be, an ongoing challenge for the education sector. This report identifies strategies to enable the education sector to be a 'change maker', both nationally and at a local level, rather than describing individual technologies.

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Arc is an experimental research service of Digital Library Research group at Old Dominion University. Arc is used to investigate issues in harvesting OAI compliant repositories and making them accessible through a unified search interface.