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• The New Media Consortium (NMC)—an organization that tracks and docu-
ments promising and emerging technologies likely to impact learning and
instruction in the form of annual Horizon Reports in a number of contexts; see
http://www.nmc.org/
• Open educational resource (OER): Resource Roundup from Edutopia; see http://
www.edutopia.org/open-educational-resources-guide
• Open educational resources—a UNESCO guidebook and resource; see http://
www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-
knowledge/open-educational-resources//
• Smithsonian Institute, Resources for Educators; see http://www.si.edu/
Educators
• Theory Into Practice Database/Instructional.org—Greg Kearsley’s original
database created in 1992 which has been revised several times since then; see
http://instructionaldesign.org/
• UNESCO: Education for the twenty-first century—see http://en.unesco.org/
themes/education-21st-century.

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