Keep Up With Learning Space Design

This Educause webpage is the best way I know to keep up. It tracks current activity and provides up-to-date information on happenings related to this fascinating topic. In the section on "On-going Projects" you can find classroom design guidelines and links to photos of newly designed and completed spaces. It is possible to get a feed so you don't have to keep checking the site itself.

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008

How many of these do you use? The source is Jane Hart. Incidentally, Slideshare.net is a very useful site.

Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology

The 2008 ECAR study was released in October. The key findings provide an excellent summary and confirm our general understanding of the net generation and underlying trends. Still, there are some intriguing results. Most students think IT should be used moderately in the classroom so as to not supplant intructor "face time." This finding supports the majority opinion that having class materials posted online does not provide a substitute for attending class and interacting with the instructor and other students. The growing use of Social Networking Sites has not yet translated to high use in the class or otherwise to support the educational effort.

Trends I learned from Educause

"Trends..." is a pretty good article , which provides some insight on the most recent trends in the postsecondary use of IT. This is from a private company so there is an agenda here, but it is not too heavy handed. Overall, some useful info.