I’m listening to Arlene De Strulle, Bruce Mason, Kimberly
Lightle, Cathy Manduca, Darrell Porcello in the opening panel at
the NSDL annual meeting. Dr. De Strulle is talking about the
report Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The
Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge. Highlights of the
report: - Crossdisciplinary approach – use - Platform
perspective – adopt & integrate with existing platforms –
support - Learning across the lifespan – achieve
decentralization while retaining what we know about learning and
education - Promote OER - Sustain innovation – build on previous
work so that it has life beyond its own project Cyberlearning –
learning mediated by technology (formal ed, informal ed, brought
together by networked computing and ICT). Think about life long
learning. We need to think about redistributing learning over
time. Cyberlearning is not restricted by the constraints of
schools. Not limited by time, location, formal-informal
boundaries. Arlene comes from a Virtual Reality background from
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