The NYC Department of Education is challenging software developers to submit apps and games that enhance teaching, learning, and engagement for NYC middle schools. I thought this might interest folks working on app or startup ideas.

Another look at digital badges.

Websites are springing up that sort and collect reviews of MOOC courses. Meta-MOOC's essentially. Interesting how quickly an ecosystem can begin to develop around a new technology.

This consortium is charging more than $4,000 a course. Seems like a lot.

Site with a lot of links to AR info

Collaboration between CERN, European particle physics researach org, and Angry Birds company for science education apps.

About Anant Agarwall, now head of edX, and his thoughts about his online Circuits class, which is now the prototype for other MITx classes.

Stanford Medical School is working on flipped classroom model for some of its courses.

Program started by Microsoft engineer / Harvard Ed school graduate.

Emerging technologies exhibit at computer graphics conference in August 2012. The web page has a video (which could be less glitzy and more informative) and below that brief descriptions of the various exhibits. Some interesting and even simple uses of digital technology, such as using plants as an interface to a computer.