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"Medical Education is a group for individuals involved in medical education, nursing education and other health professions education. It's a place to share resources, ideas and best practice and get connected with others working in this field. This group is NOT for promoting products or services, the focus is on sharing bookmarks about education, medical education, Web 2.0, resources which would be helpful to students and teachers to support learning and teaching in medicine and the health professions."

"Skype Announces Free Group Video Calling for Teachers is an article in the School Library Journal describing a new program Skype has for teachers (thanks to Justin Baeder for the tip)."

"A growing literature suggests that there is a disjuncture between the instructional practices of the education system and the student body it is expected to serve, particularly with respect to the roles of digital technologies. Based on surveys and focus group interviews of first-year students at a primarily undergraduate Canadian university and focus group interviews of professors at the same institution, this study explores the gaps and intersections between students' uses and expectations for digital technologies while learning inside the classroom and socializing outside the classroom, and the instructional uses, expectations and concerns of their professors. It concludes with recommendations for uses of digital technologies that go beyond information transmission, the need for extended pedagogical discussions to harness the learning potentials of digital technologies, and for pedagogies that embrace the social construction of knowledge as well as individual acquisition."

n some educational settings, the cost of textbooks approaches or even exceeds the cost of tuition. Given limited resources, it is important to better understand the impacts of free open educational resources (OER) on student outcomes. Utilizing digital resources such as OER can substantially reduce costs for students. The purpose of this study was to analyze whether the adoption of no-cost open digital textbooks significantly predicted students' completion of courses, class achievement, and enrollment intensity during and after semesters in which OER were used. This study utilized a quantitative quasi-experimental design with propensity-score matched groups to examine differences in outcomes between students that used OER and those who did not. The demographics of the initial sample of 16,727 included 4909 students in the treatment condition with a pool of 11,818 in the control condition. There were statistically significant differences between groups, with most favoring students utilizing OER.

OpenStax has launched their "working groups" for participants to collaborate on and share resources related to OpenStax textbooks. It's free to take part and you may find something useful (even if it's a connection with a potential collaborator). There are groups for all of the OpenStax textbooks including the two Biology books, Principles of Economics, Introduction to Sociology, two Chemistry books, Anatomy and Physiology, Psychology, and several other subjects.

Produced by the Open Education Group for the Open Textbook Network. Good guide for those interested in getting started on research related to OER.

""Usually with an exam, feedback will come as a mark and then many students will throw the exam away," says Brett Gilley, a former Science Teaching and Learning Fellow in the Carl Weiman Science Education Initiative, and an instructor with UBC's Vantage College and the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. "Here, we're making them review the exam while they still care about the answers to the questions.""

A series of Plymouth University brief case study videos created by educators describing various personal good practices in teaching and learning inclusively. Additionally are provided a series of written case studies, to further explore inclusivity in teaching.

Research poster on using a rubric to grade exams in a Calculus-based physics for science and engineering course that shows the level of specificity in the output possible with a rubric.

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