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This is a great new app for the iPad. It costs only 99 cents. It alllows you to use a stylus to take notes, linked audio recordings, PDF annotations, Advanced Word-Processing, inserting photos or drawings, and more.

At Best Education Sites, we believe that many of our colleges and universities are failing their students in one crucial way - by not providing them with a rich and easy learning experience on their educational sites. As the world of web design progresses at a dizzying pace, education websites seem to be lost in the past, unable or unwilling to keep up. Anyone who has visited edu sites has probably had the experience: clunky user interface, incomprehensible navigation, ugly design, and no content of any real use for students. We are well aware of this situation, and that is why we decided to create this project of ranking the best educational websites: to try to help fix it.

I came across this really cool website of open educational resources. Have fun sharing and learning!

Interesting comments about OER for online higher education. Carol H

The article discusses the paradigm shift in learning styles and approaches using the web resources. Personal learning environments and internet sifting for content is discussed as well.

This video details what approaches should be taken in regards to teaching in the 21st century.

Found this National Online Teacher Certification announcement

Found this National Online Teacher Certification announcement

The faculty at my college have been discussing this current article that discusses how "at least 45 percent of undergraduates demonstrated no improvement in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing skills in the first two years of college, and 36 percent showed no progress in four years." To read Part 2 of the article copy and paste this link into the URL: http://chronicle.com/article/A-Perfect-Storm-in/126969/

Education World provides a home for educators on the Internet, where teachers can gather and share ideas.

Recent review of the ways teachers have turned to twitter to discuss teaching and share resources.

So many levels of separation...I know, it's weird to be posting a link to a collection of links on a collection of links. But this is a good one.

By KATIE DAWSON, Indiana Daily Student The Indiana University eText initiative has saved 5,300 IU students as much as $100,000 by allowing professors to select eTexts instead of traditional textbooks to teach in class. eTexts first became available for faculty to consider for classes in September 2011 but are now available for all classes to use this spring semester.

This site discusses improving education through the use of social media. The site contains helpful ideas, infographics, news and videos.

Social-networking tools and learning analytics can help educators evaluate open content