Knowledge in the Public Interest (KPI)

By Chuck Frey, posted to Mind Mapping Software Blog October 21 2008. This blog concentrates on mind mapping software. In this post, they make recommendations about software that will be useful in project management, though presumably some PM tools will also include such mapping features.

From AlternativeTo.net, software recommendations for password storage.

By Elinor Mills in the InSecurity Complex column of CNET News, posted July 15, 2010. Mills presents a variety of password storage solutions, from the "old school" (on a scrap of paper in your wallet) to desktop, web-based, and USB-based solutions. There are links to many of the key players, as well as to earlier CNET articles.

From TopTenREVIEWS, 2010. There is a comparison chart of 14 leading password management software solutions. Scroll beneath the comparison chart for a brief article outlining why someone might use this software and what to look for when evalutating. Unfortunately, the solutions presented here range in price from $15 to $75. There are no free solutions presented.

Cloud content management platform for shareable file storage.

Wiki site collects information about tools and resources to support research.

Originally prepared by Robin Good and Daniele Bazzano for MasterNewMedia, and first published on June 29th, 2009. This guide offers some of the advantages of self-publishing, along with reviews of 15 companies that produce self-published books.

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. This resource hosts communities for members to contribute and share learning and teaching materials. The communities are categorized by higher education disciplines. In addition to contributing materials, members can comment about outside learning materials that are used, share information about themselves and knowledge about their discipline, put together personal collections to use in the classroom and become a Peer Reviewer of learning materials in member's discipline. In addition to discipline communities, there is the Community of MERLOT Partner Academic Support Services (COMPASS). This community is made up of ePortfolio, Faculty Development, Library and Information Services, Online Courses and Pedagogy. The ePortflio Portal centers educational resources around ePortfolio use in higher education, among students and faculty. Partner Communities like GLOBE extend the MERLOT network. The Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) alliance was established between ARIADNE Foundation in Europe, Education Services Austrailia, LORNET in Canada, National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME) in Japan and MERLOT with the goal to "work collaboratively on a shared vision of ubiquitous access to quality educational content." The majority of MERLOT members are faculty/instructors and the balance are students, campus administrators, librarians and other members of higher education who are concerned with online learning materials, technology, teaching and learning, and innovation.

On PBS NewsHour, April 20, 2010. Jeffrey Brown interview with Mary Spilde and Hilary Pennington about the increased focus on boosting graduation rates in community colleges. Remedial education, innovative technology models and standards for accountabililty are topics covered.

Blog aims to provide up-to-date information on initiatives, meetings and reports related to complexity sciences and international aid.

By Lisa Neal in eLearn Magazine Diana Laurillard answers questions about her new position, e-learning and new technologies.

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