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The architects of education 2.0 predict that traditional universities that cling to the string-quartet model will find themselves on the wrong side of history, alongside newspaper chains and record stores. "If universities can't find the will to innovate and adapt to changes in the world around them," professor David Wiley of Brigham Young University has written, "universities will be irrelevant by 2020."

The Open Scholar

"The Open Scholar, as I'm defining this person, is not simply someone who agrees to allow free access and reuse of his or her traditional scholarly articles and books; no, the Open Scholar is someone who makes their intellectual projects and processes digitally visible and who invites and encourages ongoing criticism of their work and secondary uses of any or all parts of it--at any stage of its development.

Wiki:Social Networks

Hot Story to Has-Been: Tracking News via Cyberspace

Yochai Benkler: After Selfishness - Wikipedia 1, Hobbes 0 at Half Time

As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks Are History

Teens Don't Tweet... Or Do They?

Web 2.0-Mediated Competence - Implicit Educational Demands on Learners

10 ways to learn anything on the Web Need help honing your business plan? Need to learn Mandarin for that big business trip next month? Or maybe you just want to learn how to do the Thriller dance and do an ollie on your skateboard. Whatever it is you need to learn, the Internet has a tutorial just waiting for your eyeballs - here's a list of some of the best.

50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom

Multimedia sources for blogs.

Multimedia sources for blogs that may be useful classroom tools.

The SoMo experience begins with tools like GPS that can identify where we are and where we are going in real time. GPS is further enhanced through the marking of actual physical locations -- geotagging. Geotagging can include everything from "soundprints" to video markers, and the tagging of locally relevant reviews and news. GeoGraffiti, for example, allows mobile phone users to record a message tied to a specific place that is later retrievable by anyone who finds themselves near the same location. Geotaggers can leave a virtual "Kilgore was here" tag at any place, freezing in time and making publicly available their location-specific activities, interactions and thoughts. Mobile social networking is also coming on strong with applications like Foursquare and Britekite. Mobile phone users can discover each other, both friends and strangers, via profiles they make available at a particular location. Such applications are good for networking on the fly and immediately finding out if your friends are nearby at a given time.