gamification, or making a non-game application more engaging by adding game-like features, is clearly more than a bolt-on marketing fad and even quite possibly the next big thing for the internet; it's certainly a long overdue element of online education :-)

"Among academics who use the service, the majority of their tweets are unrelated to their scholarly work, according to the research." ... perhaps at the university, but in the vocational education sphere I would argue that tweets are much more work focused.

Using video and paper to make complex ideas easy to understand by presenting subjects in plain English using short, unique and understandable videos in a format called "Paperworks". Best seen to be understood - check out: * RSS in Plain English * Wikis in Plain English * Social Bookmarking in Plain English * Social Networking in Plain English

Anki is a program designed to help you remember facts (such as words and phrases in a foreign language) as easily, quickly and efficiently as possible. To do this, it tracks how well you remember each fact, and uses that information to optimally schedule review times. Theoretically this will greatly increase the amount of material you remember, making study more productive. Free and open source, binaries available for Win, Mac and Debian ^_^

this is the type of software mentioned in the wired article: Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak