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It's got a lot of useful stuff on trans-national education, and, for those with an interest in e-learning, a big report is just out on the use of Web 2.0 in HE across five countries. Anyone who wants to access it needs to log in with username: qmul.ac.uk and password: concert . That log in is for anyone in QM, so do pass it on to colleagues who you feel might be interested.

Another use for the text messaging services we are considering in ESD?

I should really make a list of "requirements" to take to the meeting to find out whether the service being presented would indeed allow all this stuff. I was at a training course last Friday on audience voting systems and we had a go at using a thing called PollEverywhere which allows voting by text, web or twitter. David, I think you've mentioned PollEverywhere before? It is rather good. You can get a free Higher Ed account for up to 32 participants...doesn't do any reporting, or there's a variety of paid plans which give access to more sophisticated features. It's quite neat. http://www.polleverywhere.com/

This looks really useful, given the popularity of the summer school - might think about which courses would be good to convert to accelerated summer courses for future years.

Self-efficacy - the belief in yourself is an important aspect of learning - this is a useful review of studies

More ProfHacker on plug-ins for WordPress in academic settings

ProfHacker column on useful plug-ins for WordPress when using it in the classroom.

Killing the Lecture With Technology, Part II

QM's efforts in developing ways to recognise teaching excellence get a mention in the THE

Clemson University in the US found that students going abroad had a hard time articulating the value of their time overseas to employers, so got them to use multimedia to produce projects which would help them to understand what they had learnt about intercultural exchange. Strikingly similar to the social network project and the module I am proposing in SLLF!

The awesome ProfHacker with a step-by-step guide to quickly getting a bunch of dates into a Google calendar. The author is using it specifically in the context of a course syllabus, but I thought it might also be useful for putting in things like PGCAP dates.

Gym membership style model for lifelong learning/personal development. Membership fee, then able to go to any course. Details: http://explore.sunderland.ac.uk/

A way to cut marking time in half (& save yourself from getting repetitive strain injury)! Sounds brilliant. I'm going to try this with my Drapers' Skills Award assessments (as I have Dragon Naturally Speaking on my machine already). I like what he says about making marking into a conversation with students.