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Based upon proven research and informed by practical experience, this Blended Learning Toolkit will offer guidance, examples, professional development, and other resources to help you prepare your own blended learning courses and programs.

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He warns that universities are ignoring the changing needs and desires of young people - and they're doing so at their own peril.

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Dave Cormier outlines success in a MOOC but this applies to just about any learning opportunity: Orient, Declare, Network, Cluster,Focus

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Easily caption and translate your videos, with help from your viewers.

Universal Subtitles gives individuals, communities, and larger organizations the power to overcome accessibility and language barriers for online video. The tools are free and open source and make the work of subtitling and translating video simpler, more appealing, and, most of all, more collaborative.The benefits of captioning and subtitling are immense:Captions make videos accessible for viewers who are deaf or hard of hearingTranslations make it possible for all of us to watch video in languages that we don't speakVideo creators get: better SEO, more views, access to a far bigger (potentially multilingual and global) audience, accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing viewers, and moreUniversal Subtitles is composed of three main parts:A subtitle creation and viewing tool (aka the widget)A collaborative subtitling websiteAn open protocol for subtitle search/delivery

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As you go down the road of web measurement, always start with a goal in mind. When you have your goal in place, then provide context for the measurement. Let's break this down a bit more: How are we defining effectiveness? If the goal is for a user to download a PDF file of an alumni magazine, then you are successful if someone downloads the PD

Even better, the data visualisation tools that can manipulate and present that information are getting easier to use and available to anyone. And it is in the social and political aspects of data visualisation that its real value emerges. "If you make these tools and data available to a broader range of people you are just going to get better ideas," said Dr Austwick.

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Easily incorporate Google Apps into your curriculum with these classroom-ready lesson plans. Have a Google Apps lesson plan? Submit it for review.

The LMS market is in flux. According to a 2010 survey conducted by the Campus Computing Project, Blackboard's dominance of the higher education market declined from 71 percent in 2006 to 57 percent in 2010. Open source alternatives Moodle and Sakai have continued to make inroads, as has Desire2Learn--together they now control over 30 percent of the market. The entry of Instructure, whose Canvas LMS recently scooped up the business of the Utah Education Network, provides an additional plot twist. And hanging over it all is the imminent migration of hundreds of legacy Blackboard clients to new systems as their existing platforms are retired.