MLA and APA prepare for the future of the academic citation.
Professors may scoff at the idea, but students are increasingly citing tweets in academic papers. Although they don’t exactly count as peer-reviewed, tweets do provide interesting insight into pop culture, breaking news and a number of social issues. After all, the Library of Congress is indexing tweets for historical reference.
As a result, it’s important that style guides address the issue, and that students understand how to properly cite their sources. More...

Welcome to the New Year Edition of the Eurydice Newsletter
New year, new start, new Eurydice Newsletter - your update on recent and forthcoming Eurydice publications and news from the world of European education.
Latest publications
Education and Training in Europe 2020. Responses from the EU Member States
How have countries so far responded to the Europe 2020 priorities in the field of education and training?.

Welcome to the New Year Edition of the Eurydice Newsletter
New year, new start, new Eurydice Newsletter - your update on recent and forthcoming Eurydice publications and news from the world of European education. Education systems vary enormously across Europe. Eurydice's task is to understand and explain how they work and to share that information with you. Eurydice wishes you a happy 2014!

The February 2014 edition of New in Hedbib has been released. Containing 121 references and abstracts of the latest higher education research articles and publications worldwide and links to online publications, this resource is produced from HEDBIB, the International Bibliographic Database on Higher Education. It aims at representing all world regions with a focus on IAU’s priority themes – Equitable access and success in higher education, Education for All; Intercultural dialogue; Internationalisation; Research and doctoral education; and Sustainable development. Each edition highlights recommended publications. http://hedbib.iau-aiu.net/
International Bibliographic Database on Higher Education - February / février 2014.

By Valérie Emin-Martinez, Cecilie Hansen, María Jesús Rodríguez Triana, Barbara Wasson, Yishay Mor, Mihai Dascalu, Rebecca Ferguson, Jean-Philippe Pernin. This paper proposes “teacher-led design inquiry of learning” as a new model of educational practice and professional development. This model combines four existing models. It integrates teacher inquiry into student learning, learning design, and Learning analytics, and aims to capture the essence of the synergy of these three fields.
Furthermore, we identify how Learning Analytics and the integrated model inform each other and could help integrating Learning Analytics into teachers’ practice.

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By Beth Perry, Margaret Edwards, Katherine Janzen. Encouraging reflection in learners studying online is challenging. Yet reflection is often a priority learning outcome. Creative teaching strategies can help create learning environments conducive to reflection. One teaching strategy developed to encourage reflection in online courses is called conceptual quilting (Perry & Edwards, 2010).
Conceptual quilting is an arts-based strategy that invites students to create virtual quilts by piecing together words, ideas, metaphors and concepts from a course or unit that they found most transformational. Completed quilts are shared electronically by posting them in an online “quilt gallery” for all students in the class to browse.

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By Mathieu d'Aquin, Stefan Dietze, Hendrik Drachler, Davide Taibi, Eelco Herder. Learning Analytics has a lot to do with data, and the way to make sense of raw data in terms of the learner’s experience, behaviour and knowledge. In this article, we argue about the need for a closer relationship between the field of Learning Analytics and the one of Linked Data, which in our view constitutes an ideal data management layer for Learning Analytics.
Based on our experience with organising the “Using Linked Data in Learning Analytics” tutorial at the Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference, we discuss the existing trends in the use of linked data and semantic web technologies, in general in education and in learning analytics specifically.

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