Education and experience of respondents Compensation Tags: Key Resource Last year, Forum One recognized that one of the key issues community and social media professionals face is that we (as an industry) are suffering from a lack of solid benchmarks, including compensation of online community and social media professionals. In July of 2008, as part of our ongoing research efforts with the Online Community Research Network , we conducted the first comprehensive study and gained valuable insight about online community and social media professional's compensation, team structure, and current

Community & Education Marketing Manager, Software Company Educate members by example by your actions as well as highlighting examples of positive behavior and contribution. Be Tags: Key Resource This post is part of the #OCTribe series, intended to spark discussion amongst community practitioners on a bi-monthly topic. This week's "call to post" was initiated by Scott Moore:

Hopefully this brief post will act as a marker of progress rather than just a register of the current limitations of the UK education system. However, while it is a critical area of development and resourcing, e-safety alone is not enough. To regard it as anything except a critical element within a wider digital literacy framework, and to attempt to teach it alongside an antiquated, generally programme-specific ICT education Anyone who has talked to me for any length of time over the past couple of years will have been hard pressed to have avoided my growing preoccupation with the UK's digital literacy agenda, or rather, lack of one.

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They wanted us to think of ways the 10 Principles would apply to education. We applied the 10 Principles to educations’ need to: Broadcast Value Streamline Publication Increase Communication Increase Access to Information and Resources Modus Cooperandi’s Paper on Social Media for Higher Education for the University of Lisbon can be downloaded from the Modus Cooperandi site. Technorati Tags: University of Lisbon , social media principles , 10 social media principles , social media for education , social media for higher education , Modus Cooperandi Blogged

Think of it as online book clubs for open educational resources. P2PU acts as a guide to open education materials that are already available and connects small groups of motivated learners. Stian Håklev is a Toronto-based activist for open access to research and open education , and one of the founders of P2PU. Article from Chris Watkins : The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses.

a great resource for educators. Education Investigation Using Blogs in science Education Salford University Occupational Therapy Education blog Fled: Flexible Learning Education Design Its the Edublog Awards 2008 ! Dust off your party outfits and get ready to join us on Saturday night for the spectacular 5th awards show, celebrating the vibrancy of blog and social media practice to support learning .  Voting is still open across this years 16 categories , and every vote still counts since most of the category nominees are within

We can control for the problems in the complexity of the process by aggregating resources and allowing people to focus on the aspects that they are most equipped to do. Tags: P2P Education P2P Research P2P Scienc The hacking of emails written by scientists at the Climate Research Unit has produced lots of comment and copy about the efficacy of climate science and seems to have done damage to the reputations of the scientists and sciences involved. However the response to this incident – an opening up and peering of science that should be the response to this incident, will

Educated, confident, creative people are dangerous to the status quo, dangerous to a centralized economy, dangerous to a centralized system of command and control. Those in power don’t want you educated. She describes some of the groups that are organizing travel adventures to enrich unschoolers’ experiences even further, and provides a host of resources for further reading and exploration of the unschooling movement. Dave Pollard wrote about unschooling on his blog How To Save The World AN UNSCHOOLING MANIFESTO

The digital is the realm of the open: open source, open resources, open doors. Via Open Education News : The Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities at UCLA issued A Digital Humanities Manifesto , which beautifully expresses the value of openness in education . The digital is the realm of the open: open source, open resources, open doors. Anything that attempts to close this space should be recognized for what it is: the enemy. Excerpt from the Manifesto: “5.