By way of Jenny Millea’s blog at edna.edu.au I just discovered a publication titled “Learning Spaces Framework: Learning in an Online World“.  The document was prepared by Curriculum Corporation as the legal entity for the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) and outlines a holistic, strategic framework for planning and designing the production of learning spaces.
While it is geared more generally towards physical spaces, there are many areas in which it could be adapted and applied to the development of virtual ones as well.  The latter …

By way of edna.edu.au, I’ve just run across a paper titled “The net generation are not big users of Web 2.0 technologies: Preliminary findings“. Written by a team of researchers from several different Australian institutions, the paper outlines the findings of a survey of 2588 first year university students that sought to uncover the technological usage habits of members of Generation Y.
The paper refutes the notion that this generation is comprised of “Digital Natives” and should thus be referred to as the “Net Generation”, as the findings of the …