Aqua-tnet

In today's college classrooms the sound of furious note-scribbling has been replaced by clacking on keyboards and tapping on tablets. Thanks to the ubiquity of WiFi on campuses, it's not just note-taking that's been given a 21st-century update. Professors and students alike are constantly online

An Open Education Project from Rice University - Sharing educational materials in modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports etc.

Wiki providing resources, guidance and examples of using Web 2.0 technologies in teaching and learning

A comprehensive wiki on web 2.0 technologies, education and pedagogy by Cheryl Capozzoli

A Diigo list of weblinks from the University of Stirling library relvant to aquaculture

Flickr photo sharing group for the aqua-tnet project - please add your photos of aquaculture, fisheries and aquatic resources

Photos from the WorldFish Centre on Flickr

A library of aquaculture photographs provided by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation

UK Academic service providing advice on video conferencing - systems and management

A Delicious Links Stack for using Twitter in Education

NTS aims to use ICTs as a tool to make the learning of science subjects more attractive and accessible. The project target groups are students from the general and vocational schools aged 13 to 18; teachers in science subject,plus college & university students attending science education courses (prospective school teachers in sciences) The project will establish a Virtual Lab, as an experimental virtual aid to science learning. This will serve as a platform for science lessons, as a database of teaching materials and as a hub for science-learning-related graphic aids and recorded and illustrated appealing experiments on Nano-Tech. It will include a Nano-Science Center, presenting to learners and their in-service or future teachers the miracles of the nano-technologies. A program for a week Science Camp training including hands-on experiments and demonstrations will be developed and delivered through the VL, this is a good step as an approbation of the contents and functionalities of the virtual lab.

The World Internet Project (WIP) is a major, international, collaborative project looking at the social, political and economic impact of the Internet and other new technologies. It also provides a gateway to individual country reports and partner organisations concerned with the development and use of the Internet.

T3 goal is to develop and validate an innovative teaching program to promote the use of advanced learning technology by university teaching staff; secondary school teachers; trainers involved in VET. Key features of the program will include: theoretical classes discussing the features and advantages of the new technologies; practical workshops, in which learners (university teaching staff, teachers and trainers) simulate learning sessions and familiarize with technologies; project work, in which learners will prepare learning projects for use in their own classes, implement the project, and evaluate the results; joint assessment of the results by participants in the program.

Short guide to "Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities" By Amy Mollett, Danielle Moran, and Patrick Dunleavy, (2011), LSE Public Policy Group, London School of Economics and Political Science., London, UK.

Thanks for passing this on, John. A really nice guide from LSE.

US-based site providing resources and links for both prospective online students and educators. These include links to open access courses and educational resources, blog articles and useful link collections

A bog site providing a guide to free online courses and other learning resources

Thanks to Lionel Dabbadie for this link - it illustrates very well the potential for the Internet to profoundly affect the standard models of education - something I refered to at the aqua-tnet conference in Vilamoura last week.

A crowdsourcing blog on ways of using Web2.0 tools and IT in the classroom

Repository for learning objects and mateials

JISC site providing information and guidance on open educational resources

This is a very useful site for information on sharing or using Open Educational Resources

UK Special Interest Group on engaging students through in-class technology

Interesting and relatively new group on using new technology tools more effectively in the lecture room or classroom