This document summarizes trends in eLearning and provides guidance for schools. It discusses how technology can enhance pedagogy by facilitating connections, shared learning, and supportive environments. It also outlines changing student and teacher roles, issues of cyber citizenship, and emerging technologies like mobile learning and cloud computing. The document advocates developing a shared eLearning vision and focusing on collaborating with other schools while supporting student learning.

1. Heads up on the eLearning Landscape Rachel Roberts [email_address] www.bardwired.blogspot.com

3. Snapshots

8. Changing Roles

13. Current Trends

14. Smaller, faster, cheaper Moore’s Law continues

15. M Learning Gartner forecasts that phones will become the most common web browsing device by 2013 “ It will no longer be a question of should we use these devices to support learning, but how and when to use them” Michael Levine

17. Web 2.0 – Social Networking

20. Big Picture Stuff

21. Convergence

22. Cloud Computing

23. UFB & Advanced School Networks NEN Trial http://www.karen.net.nz/nen-schools/

24. Connected Schools Collaborating

25. VLN – Primary http://tiny.cc/vlnprimary

26. The potential is there to be able to provide all of our students in the Primary Sector with learning opportunities that we are not able to provide in our individual schools.

29. Where are our Schools?

30. Adobe Connect

31. Matapu Students in German Class

32. http://primary.vln.school.nz/ Asynchronous learning (mainly Reading & Writing)