Shifting centres: time, place, agency and technologies for learning

U & I projects are highlighting the shifting centres of control, time, place, agency and technologies in learning. As an alternative to new student orientation, socialisation and induction, ARGOSI have exploited the potential of Alternate Reality Games. Second Life advocates PREVIEW have developed and delivered problem-based learning (PBL) scenarios in virtual worlds, while fellow Second Lifers M3 have integrated Second Life and Twitter in an existing Moodle course, increasing in- course participation by learners. MACFob and Sounds Good have extended the uses of multimedia in education; MACFob by creating the Synote tool to make pod- and vodcasts easier to access, search and manage, and Sounds Good by showing that it is possible to give richer feedback to students and save assessors’ time by using multimedia in virtual learning environments.