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Consider the tangible violence technology has wrought upon grammar. We rely on automated grammar and spell-check tools in word-processing software (so much that they've become a crutch). E-mail shorthand fails to live up to the grammatical standards of typed or handwritten letters. And many believe our language is being perverted by the shortcuts (and...

© 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.

The space for social media in structured online learning aOffice of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education Innovation), The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia; bStudent Academic Support Unit, Monash University, Monash, Caulfield, VIC, Australia; cLearning Transformations Unit, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia; d Australian Council for Educational Research,

List of global collections of open educational resources.

Ormond Simpson, Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, New Zealand Open Learning Vol. 23, No. 3, November 2008, 159-170

On the Web, there is a close coupling between the individual, their persona and the information they consume and produce. This stands in stark contrast to the traditional discipline of academic writing and publishing, which requires the extraction of self, even as the credibility and status of the author is still paramount.

For the increasing number of students doing Masters' dissertations or Ph.D's on MOOCs I have collected together for convenience all the references made in my chapter on MOOCs for my open textbook, ' Teaching in a Digital World.' However, there are many other publications - this cannot be considered a comprehensive list.

Welcome to the home page of the IRISS Information Literacy Interactive Tutorial. This tutorial was derived from the Social Services Knowledge Scotland (SSKS) Information Literacy pack. Objective This tutorial will provide you with an understanding of information literacy in six simple steps. Each step includes activities that will help you develop your information literacy skills.

A short film by Alastair Creelman about using Diigo.

" 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.