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Cristóbal Cobo and I are pleased to announce the Invisible Learning (Aprendizaje Invisible) project –and we invite your participation!
Invisible Learning // Aprendizaje Invisible is collaborative book (in English and Spanish) and an online repository of bold ideas for designing cultures of sustainable innovation.

Through the development of 1) a collaborative, printed book; 2) an e-book; and [...]

Inside Higher Ed writes that, Daniel Greenstein, vice provost for academic planning and programs at the University of California System predicts:
The university library of the future will be sparsely staffed, highly decentralized, and have a physical plant consisting of little more than special collections and study areas.

Particularly over the past decade, librarians have shown considerable [...]

The e-competencies conference is over –and, by all measures, it seems to be a resounding success! Many, many thanks go to Cristóbal Cobo and Jutta Treviranus for the co-organization of the event.

I am particularly grateful for our amazing participants. A few of their presentations are already online:

Martín Parselis (Video) [UCA]

Guillermo Lutzky [...]

The E-Competencies conference is taking place in Mexico City today. Not in Mexico? No worries! You can watch online:
http://www.mogulus.com/ecompetencias_en

The program is available at: e-competencies.org
You can also follow the conference via Twitter: @ecompetencies

Fernando S. posted a Spanish translation of my Education 1.0 – Education 3.0 taxonomy at gabinetedeinformatica.net last week. The table has since appeared at quite a few other blogs in the Spanish-language blogosphere:

Thanks, Fernando!
(The English version of the table appears here.)

A full report from last Friday’s Horizon Forum meeting (see announcement) will be posted at Education Futures by Jeffrey Schulz soon. In the meantime, here’s the slides from North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL) vice president Allison Powell:

And, a picture from the event:

There’s a lot of talk about moving to “Education 2.0″ –but, what would Education 3.0 look like?
Here’s my take on the Education 1.0 – 3.0 spectrum:

Education 1.0

Education 2.0

Education 3.0

Meaning is…
Dictated
Socially constructed
Socially constructed and contextually reinvented

Technology is…
Confiscated at the classroom door (digital refugees)
Cautiously adopted (digital immigrants)
Everywhere (digital universe)

Teaching is done …
Teacher to student
Teacher to student and [...]

Following-up from yesterday’s post on the characteristics of co-seminars, here’s a taste of what they look like.
This joint co-seminar, organized between the University of Minnesota, FLACSO-México, FLACSO-Chile and the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja is an “open seminar” – that is, with permission from the students and collaborating institutions, all course content and most of [...]

Education Futures readers in Minnesota are invited to join us for the next Horizon Forum meeting!
Online Education: Innovation or Illusion?
Facilitated by Jeffrey Schulz
Friday, February 22
11:00am – 1:00pm
Arthur Upson Room, Walter Library (University of Minnesota East Bank)
As online education continues to explode at all school levels, many questions arise. Is it valid? [...]