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I just found out about this...and it just finished! Not that I had time to go! There are slides and audio for the sessions. Some look interesting.

I like this site because it links to a few different repositories.

Strange goings on in Minnesota.

"Web Platform Docs is a new community-driven site that aims to become a comprehensive and authoritative source for web developer documentation."

Blackboard President of Academic Plateform will deliver a webinar about the changes in online learningmodels. The webinar intro states: " To stay competitive and drive measurable success, institutions are experimenting with new approaches for online education by launching MOOCs, integrating and sharing open education resources, and enhancing the learning experience for socially connected students. " It is interesting to hear about how Blackboard's new approaches will change the open educational resources that will be stored in the iCloud.

Think before you flip doesn't just apply to pancakes.

Professors around the world assign their students to contribute to Wikipedia for class assignment. It is used in Brazil, Canada, Egypt and USA. Interesting: students share in the Wikipedia in multiple languages.

MOOCs - the story so far Sir John Daniel former President & Chief Executive Officer Commonwealth of Learning http://www.tonybates.ca/wp-content/uploads/Making-Sense-of-MOOCs.pdf

Blackboard CEO steps down. What is next for academic Software?? Can an open source software play a role in the future of the academic LMS. I believe YES it will be a main player for MOOCS and Open Courses acess not only in developing countries but also other wealthy countries.

Statement from co-founder... "In a nutshell, we publish free and low-cost print and electronic textbooks, all of which are professionally edited, peer-reviewed, and typeset, under a Creative Commons BY-SA-NC license. My colleague Andrew Bender succinctly calls us the "Red Hat of textbooks." Like Red Hat, we flourish by freely distributing our core content and charging reasonable fees for value-added versions of our books. Most people respond favorably and tell us that what we are doing is exciting and necessary. Even if they do not understand OER or the publishing business, everyone reacts the same way to the 'Textbook Problem'."

"It makes me wonder," Ng said, "if the next Albert Einstein is a little girl in Afghanistan who just needs [the opportunity to access quality education]."