| The bathtub boasted crochet hooks, desperate highways, Wednesday nights, deformed lawyers, crimson suspenders, weevils, puppy dogs, sea cucumbers, life-enhancing measures, ten-penny nails, consultants, untested designs, dust devils, harp sharpeners, and several long lazy afternoons in midtown Manhattan, or was it? We leave the dig house at 6 a.m., just as the sun peeks out over the horizon and it is still relatively cool. Jamie and many of her new friends are in Albania. She has joined a relatively new and fast-growing species of this planet, which first appeared at the end of the end of the twentieth century. With such projects, education is extended beyond walled classrooms and preplanned campuses to rivers cutting through mountain valleys like this one as well as meadows, beaches, deserts, and tropical rain forests. Sitting here from office at Indiana University, I find myself among them. Education is in need of a wholesale transformation. To help make sense of the 10 learning technology trends, I offer a simple-to-learn acronym, WE-ALL-LEARN. The stories are included to make the content come to life. How this Web of Learning is viewed from different regions of the world or educational sectors will become apparent from reading this book. I have given hundreds of talks during the past few years. I have seen the WE-ALL-LEARN trends repeated repeatedly in different cities, countries, and cultures. I felt it was time to limit such travel for a year or two and document what I have seen, read, and heard about in a few books. This book provides a big picture lens on what I have observed. Others will offer specifics on what instructors and learners can do about them. The Web of Learning offers so much.
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