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Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.

Open content could become more mainstream in higher education this year. The movement holds great potential for the higher education space where the New Media Consortium (NMC)--which publishes The Horizon Report annually in collaboration with Educause Learning Initiative--identifies it as a trend whose adoption rate will be one year or less.

Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. A form of open content.

Customization!! The user of this technology no longer has to settle for two-dimention diagrams or not having enough information at hand. Each individual is able to use AR to help them better learn and understand. They can choose what works best for them, manipulating diagrams and performing virtual

procedures in order to customize their learning. They are customizing their own learning because they are given additional options and opportunities to learn more instead of only guided to follow the specific teaching technique of the teacher(which not always works for each student).

Each student is able to view different angles of each diagram when they feel they need more help understanding what it is about, or performing a procedure multiple times from multiple angles when more practice is needed.

Shared by Hall Davidson at NetGenEd 2010 Discovery Education series on making real movies

Shows inexpensive ways that educational organizations could use augmented reality

A finctional real-life example of how ebooks can be used to bennefit education.

QR codes are here and they are going mainstream. MR Robbo the PE geek, myself and others are using these IN CLASS and they are useful ways of augmenting reality. Time to learn because people are going to be talking!

This listing of resources covers Visual Analysis. Visual analysis "blends highly advanced computational methods with sophisticated graphics engines to tap the extraordinary ability of humans to see patterns and structure in visuals."

During the 2007-2008 school year, Wireless Reach began funding Project K-Nect, a pilot project in rural North Carolina where high school students received supplemental algebra problem sets on smartphones (the phones were provided by the project). The outcomes are promising -- classes using the smartphones have consistently achieved significantly higher proficiency rates on their end of course exams. So what's so different about delivering problem sets on a cell phone instead of a textbook? The first obvious answer is that the cell phone version is multi-media. The Project K-Nect problem sets begin with a Flash video visually demonstrating the problem -- you could theorize that this context prepares the student to understand the subsequent text-based problem better. You could also theorize that watching a Flash animation is more engaging (or just plain fun) and so more likely to keep students' attention.

Students on the NetGenEd project will use list of tags that bookmark the latest news and information about mobile learning. This is also a great list (compiled from the Horizon Report 2010) for those who specialize in mobile learning.

This video shows how to use itouch and google docs for a classroom. (I prefer polleverywhere for this.) This video demonstrates how to do this.

Harnessing itouches as an inexpensive way to use a voting system in the classroom. Thsi video shows you how.

eBooks are becoming more affordable and with devices like the Kindle, Nook, and soon to be released iPad, ebooks are becoming more practical (as well as environmentally friendly as they save paper.) This trend is predicted to move full scale into the college scene within the next 2-3 years. These are the links from the Horizon Report 2010 on this topic.

Project K-Nect is designed to create a supplemental resource for secondary at-risk students to focus on increasing their math skills through a common and popular technology - mobile smartphones. Ninth graders in several public schools in the State of North Carolina received smartphones to access supplemental math content aligned with their teachers' lesson plans and course objectives. Students communicate and collaborate with each other and access tutors outside of the school day to help them master math skills and knowledge.

Realtà Aumentata - The future of education. This is more of just a demonstration than an explanation.

CK-12 has developed an online system for collaborative, custom-collated, self publishable educational content that can be adapted for individualized needs in a digital-age textbook known as a FlexBook.

Baraniuk is working on building global relationships with authors, educators and leaners so they can "create, rip, mix and burn" learning materials to a global open-access repository. He is creating a knowledge ecosystem that will empower anyone to take content and make of it what they want; to be translated into any language or to imbed any data which is updated in real time.

This tedtalk discusses how Microsoft is building augmented reality into searchable maps and is from Blaise Agüera y Arcas with Microsoft. This software is supposed to transform how we look at digital images. This is fascinating and also a topic that the students of NetGenEd will be reviewing as part of their research into augmented reality.