Research
Nass & reeves: Brilliant 35 studies in media and learning
Mayer & Clark – 10 brilliant design rules for e-learning
Radicals
Sperling: most important man you’ve maybe never heard of in online learning
Roger Schank: Only two things wrong with education: 1) What we teach; 2) How we teach
Technology analysts
Postman (1931-2003): Amusing ourselves to death
McLuhan (1911-1980): medium is message - Gutenburg to Zuckerberg
Informal learning
Csikszentmihalyi – don’t go with the ‘flow’!
Jay Cross: informal learning guru
Jane Hart: Me Jane ‘tools and social media guru’ in the learning jungle!
Games
Prensky: game on - digital natives, immigrants and aliens
Developing world
Negroponte: 10 reasons why his Ethiopian project smacks of Educational Colonialism
Sugata Mitra: Slum chic? 7 reasons for doubt
Usabilty & testing
Norman: tech should be 'invisible' in learning
Nielsen: When online goes bad - Flash 99% bad, eyetracking data, bad internal search
Krug – don’t make online learners think (about structure & navigation)