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These are my links for Juli 19th through Juli 21st:

• Archiv der Zukunft – Homepage –
• Facebook: Virtuelle Währung könnte sich rechnen – Ohne viel Aufhebens darum zu machen, experimentiert das Millionen-Netzwerk Facebook seit Neuestem mit einer eigenen Währung – den „Facebook Credits“. Noch steckt das Projekt in den Kinderschuhen. Aber die virtuelle Geldeinheit könnte sich in naher Zukunft auch in der realen Welt bezahlt machen: dann nämlich, wenn sie der populären, aber defizitären Online-Plattform neue lukrative Vermarktungswege eröffnet.Die „Facebook Credits“ gibt es bereits seit November. Seither kaufen Mitglieder die bunten Icons in der virtuellen Auslage des Facebook-Geschenkeladens nicht mehr mit Dollar oder Euro, sondern tauschen diese vorher gegen Credits ein.
• Personal Learning Environments … how far can you go? – This blog posting refers to one of this week’s writing assignments at the OU – it’s about PLEs (personal learning environments) as opposed to VLEs provided by institutions. This week, we got to know an interesting confrontation between these two concepts; the former working towards learner autonomy and self-directed learning, the latter ensuring the smooth flow of an online course by making everyone using the same tools.
• Neuronenvorlesungen: methodische Aspekte « chrisp’s virtual comments – If education is to contribute to the sustainability of global economies, its institutions will face the same pressure to adapt as the governments, businesses, and communities it serves. Educators will need to face uncertainty in order to embrace the future. In doing so, they will need to create a context for what is known, or thought to be known, as well as a means to explore a wide range of possibilities for what cannot be known. Scenario planning, a strategic process of exploring uncertainty, is a technique designed to challenge assumptions, identify contingencies, anticipate game-changing events, spur creativity, and, most importantly, identify actionable implications that make plans more robust and resilient.
• Microsoft Higher Education – White papers – If education is to contribute to the sustainability of global economies, its institutions will face the same pressure to adapt as the governments, businesses, and communities it serves. Educators will need to face uncertainty in order to embrace the future. In doing so, they will need to create a context for what is known, or thought to be known, as well as a means to explore a wide range of possibilities for what cannot be known. Scenario planning, a strategic process of exploring uncertainty, is a technique designed to challenge assumptions, identify contingencies, anticipate game-changing events, spur creativity, and, most importantly, identify actionable implications that make plans more robust and resilient.

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