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"This is a book about how crowds can teach, and how to teach crowds, using the tools and communities of social media. It is about online learning with the help of other people and helping other people to learn online."

Martin Weller's book THE DIGITAL SCHOLAR is available through Bloomsbury Academic under CREATIVE COMMONS LICENCE in HTML full text for online reading, with page image PDFs for printing or offline reading .

Ubiquity Press is an open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals, books and data. We operate a highly cost-efficient model that makes quality open access publishing affordable for everyone. We also make our platform available to the Ubiquity Partner Network, providing the infrastructure and services to enable university and society presses to run sustainably and successfully.

" Open Education" is a topic which has become increasingly popular in a variety of contexts. This handbook has been written to provide a useful point of reference for readers with a range of different roles and interests who are interested in learning more about the concept of Open Education and to help them deal with a variety of practical situations.

The Open Textbook Project provides flexible and affordable access to higher education resources. The book examines the underlying principles that guide effective teaching in an age when everyone,and in particular the students we are teaching, are using technology.

© 2010 Howard Rheingold. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0). EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 5 (September/October 2010): 14-24 Howard Rheingold ( howard@rheingold.com) is the author of Tools For Thought, The Virtual Community, Smart Mobs, and other books and is currently lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.