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" Funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, College Open Textbooks is a collection of colleges, governmental agencies, education non-profits, and other education-related organizations that are focused on the mission of driving the awareness and advocacy for open textbooks. This includes providing training for instructors adopting open resources, peer reviews of open textbooks, and mentoring online professional networks that provide support to authors who open their resources. Through our community outreach, we have found that open textbooks should be: * easy to use, get and pass around, * editable so instructors can customize content, * cross-platform compatible, * printable, * and accessible so they work with adaptive technology. "

Many comments (185) - pro and con http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/06/bill-gates-education/ * college needs to be less "place-based," * overall point is that it's just too expensive and too hard to get these upper-level educations. * soon place-based college educations will be five times less important than they are today. * no matter how you came about your knowledge, you should get credit for it. * textbooks are too long... even in grade school some are 300 pages. * our text books are three times longer than the equivalents in Asia.

Direct link to "Putting Evidence into Practice" for University of Iowa College of Nursing, John A. Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing on National Guideline Clearninghouse

"Dr. Drew Polly, College of Education, UNC Charlotte, joins Maria again to talk about using social bookmarking tools. Drew describes what social bookmarking is and how your students can use the tools to meet a course goal. He also emphasizes the importance of taking the time to evaluate, analyze and annotate the bookmarks so they'll provide valuable and useful information."

A terrific podcast about Social bookmarking

"Formerly hosted by the UNC TLT Collaborative, this year the TLT Conference is being hosted by UNC-Pembroke, with support by the UNC System, and will be held April 13-15, 2010 in Second Life. The presentations and demonstrations will be held on the five NC Education WeBIEE islands. NC Education is a Second Life group funded by the community colleges and open to all of North Carolina education. Registration for the 2010 UNC TLT Conference is free! You can attend from your home, office, library . . . anywhere you have a broadband internet connection -- for free!!"

An example of a educational technology conference held in Second Life. Many of our community will attend - Hope to see you there!

" The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is the national voice for America's baccalaureate- and higher-degree nursing education programs. AACN's educational, research, governmental advocacy, data collection, publications, and other programs work to establish quality standards for bachelor's- and graduate-degree nursing education, assist deans and directors to implement those standards, influence the nursing profession to improve health care, and promote public support of baccalaureate and graduate education, research, and practice in nursing- the nation's largest health care profession. "

This site lists three case studies of how groups are using Second Life in education (The New Media Consortium, the Open University, and Loyalist College), as well as lists a few good links to more resources

More twitter for teacher links than you'll ever need - scan through and see if one strikes your fancy.

About John Miller, a Nursing Professor at Tacoma Community College, use of nursing simulation in Second Life.

This video (created by Claudia Kimbrough) shows the use of Second Life in two College of Management courses. This innovative teaching and learning environment is a part of NC State University's LITRE (Learning in a Technology Rich Environment) program and a part of VOLT: Virtual Online Learning and Teaching, a comprehensive, collaborative project on online learning led by Len Annetta.