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I thought this might be inspiring for the group. Lots of sketches of what a personal learning environment could look like.

Loads of diagrams of personal learning environments that people have come up with.

This article focuses on the OER (Open Educational Resources) repository LeMill, which is a web community for finding, authoring and sharing learning resources, provided as a free and open service to everyone at http://lemill.net.

I have contact with this guy and he asked me to keep him up to date on the happenings of the project I am working on in this course.

Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

Here's a small series of humorous episodes related to recent Blackboard and Open Source Learning Management Systems. The mashups are made with snippets of classic Hindi Bollywood films, overlaid with user created subtitles

Lorna Earl unpacks the ultimate approach to assessment AS, OF and FOR learning. NOTE: skip the opening statements and go directly to Earl. She is the star of the show.

TeLearn is the first international Open Archive in Technology Enhanced Learning.

Good background for seminar 1. Michael Wesch says about it: "a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what... "

Great model for running an open course in which students collaboratively write the text-book.

Interesting example of using student generation of content as a way to learn.

Students perform better on tests when they use podcasts to take notes-better, even, than simply going to class. Though a recent study stops short of saying podcasts can replace classes, it shows that they can be extremely useful in supplementing lectures.