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The Association of Pacific Rim Universities: Education and Research Technology Forum - an annual conference encouraging collaboration amongst Pacific Rim universities.

online learning: the OnlineEduBlog has information about online degrees, courses, colleges and universities - analysis of the Online Edu Industry with news and reviews

ONLINE LEARNING DEPT: degrees, courses, colleges and universities - analysis of the Online Edu Industry with news and reviews

The Center for Social Media in the School of Communication at American University - project funded by MacArthur Foundation to clarify fair use in media education. Learn your rights under the fair use doctrine!

California State University system lessons on using e-books

great visualization tool!

We believe university-level education can be both high quality and low cost. Using the economics of the Internet, we've connected some of the greatest teachers to hundreds of thousands of students all over the world.

Imagining the Internet: a history and forecast maintained by Elon University

online degrees and video courses from leading universities

from the University of Missouri - "eThemes is your source for content-rich, kid-safe online resources that will help enhance your teaching and save you time. eThemes provides free, fast access to over 2,500 collections of websites, on topics ranging from Aerodynamics to Zebras and everything in between! By researching and creating these resources for you, eThemes will save you the time that you used to spend wading through millions of hits on Google, trying to find a few websites that meet your teaching needs. We do the searching for you, giving you more time to improve your lesson plans and actual teach!"

Differentiating Instruction: a cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia video on "Why Learning Styles Do NOT Exist"

Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University: aggregates their wiki, blog, diigo, etc. (nice model)

EdLab at Teachers College Columbia University

Academic Earth has hundreds of free online video courses from leading universities across the breadth of the curriculum - great stuff!

Lee Sheldon's game design class at Indiana University is created AS A GAME - students have avatar names, create projects in their guilds, and earn xp for their grades.

futurity: news from leading research universities in the U.S., U.K., & Canada

Joanna Goode's research on the digital divide - published in New Media and Society - that "high school opportunities around technology really shape students' abilities to engage fully in university academic life"

Open Thinking Wiki: begun by Alec Couros, ICT Coordinator of the Faculty of Education, University of Regina - as a resource for courses he teaches in education and media studies. Great example of well framed edtech site.

CATE should have something at LEAST this nice

New Media Consortium's press release announcing their award of a free sim in Second Life for the Virtual Oaxaca Project - by the Wired Humanities Project and the Center for Learning in Virtual Environments at the University of Oregon