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Goggle does more than offer search tools, maps, online docs or spreadsheets for collaborative writing and figuring - it can also offer online quizzes, map placemarking, embedding books in your blog, and more!

Richard Byrne shares free resources and lesson plans for teaching with technology - this blog entry includes Yarp, vorbeo, Urtak, Buzz Dash, Obsurvey, Fluid Surveys, Stellar Survey, Polldaddy, and Poll Everywhere (text messaging)

Kent State University's Research Center for Educational Technology site for K12 teachers, students and visitors to map out local history sites using wireless mobile devices and barcodes.

Patrick R. Lowenthal and David Thomas take a strong stance in decrying the use of student-teacher electronic dropboxes for submission of student work. We all know that in the performance arts, students benefit from public critique - and as scholars we insist on this practice for ourselves, making sure we present "papers" at prestigious conferences. So, why expect our students to perform in the "real world" and be subject regularly to critique by the very public that should be supporting the funding of their education?

Not quite a toolkit since no place for users to comment on pro/con, or upload student comments?

"social teaching" initiative with peer reviewers to identify the best teachers for any concept who then put their instruction for that concept online as "learning packets" for use by anyone free of charge - universities will be able to privatize parts of it to attach to student IDs and track progress for a fee - Capella Education has invested in this initiative also, http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/social-teaching-company-gets-buy-in-from-capella-education/29466?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

Professor Jim Taylor, from the University of Southern Queensland, points out that the OER university will create a parallel learning universe to augment and add value to traditional models of delivery through open collaboration networks. "This is not theoretical speculation, it is entirely viable." said Jim Taylor. In this keynote address, Jim: Refers to the "gales of creative destruction" associated with technological change where old industry can be swept away and replaced by new ones. However, the OER university concept provides opportunities for "creative construction" for universities in a digital age. Demonstrates that conventional supply of education using traditional delivery methods will not the meet the demands for access to higher education. Consider, for example: the need for 18 million new teachers the doubling of post-secondary students in the next decade the need to build roughly one new university per week in India alone to meet the future demand for learning. Points out that we already have a critical mass of open access materials, but we don't have open curriculum, open student support, open assessment and open accreditation. Indicates that the OER university concept will provide a stairway to credible credentials based soley on OER.

Includes video from UNESCO where Dr. Pongi asks planners of the OER university to find sustainable and scalable solutions to these key questions: - How can OER be best harnessed to train the millions of teachers needed? - What partnerships and interventions are necessary to support OER quality assurance and acceptance? - What specific types of OER content should we prioritise? - A wealth of content exists. How can an effective "clearing house" function that supports quality, cataloguing, information dissemination and other key tasks be operationalised? also Sir John Daniel, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth, highlights two strategic questions for the planning of the OER university: - How can the "OER university" give students every element of possibility to draw on the rich environment of knowledge in their learning? -How can the "OER university" provide routes to credible certification so that learners and society can have confidence in the robustness in their knowledge and skills?

This calculator is based on research conducted in the Department of Instructional Psychology and Technology and the Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling at Brigham Young University in conjunction with schools in the BYU Public School Partnership using open textbooks originally provided by CK12.org. This research was funded in part by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Cost information in the Calculator is based on pricing from Lulu, who we found to be the best option for printing open textbooks. For additional information about the Utah Open Textbooks Project, visit http://utahopentextbooks.org/.

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Video clips and discussion guide to help faculty, research assistants and students talk about the issues inherent to research that impact scholarly ethics and academic integrity.

Includes codes/policies, case studies, assessment guide for departments and other institutions to start their own plan of action in promoting integrity on campus, calendar of events, resource database