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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.

Program page about the Justice course at Harvard. Effectively an example of an advertisement/trailer video for a course + some details.

I want to do the course after watching it! Large lecture hall filled with students (apparently) paying attention.

"The first course management system built on a social networking platform". Sounds interesting but it seems to be impossible to find out what the features of the product are..."Our design team has fleshed out the core components of course management to arm teachers with only the essential tools they need to simplify the online experience" no description of what those core components are!

ON-line course today and tomorrow - sorry about late notice

Use of camtasia and a tablet pc to create short videos of the lecturer talking through the worked answers for a maths course, much as they would in class on a blackboard.

ELLG at use in Harvard

Ellg used for a harvard course

Combined with Academic Earth, iTunesU and other online courses (e.g. list on the Open culture site: http://www.oculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html) it is getting easier to find good lectures/courses. I wonder how this will play out in the end - will the 'best' lectures get used by students at other universities, even formally as part of the recommended 'reading'?

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

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.

QM, the rising star in the RAE...oh dear, 57th this year, a drop of 10 places. My alma mater...Heriot-Watt...up a stonking 30 places from 52 to 22. Hurrah! Of course, we shouldn't believe league tables should we?

The Guardian's ranking of UK universities according to teaching excellence.

Prices etc. are still a problem though... (oh, and you can't get kindles over here - brit firm plastic logic bringing one out soon though. IMHO I think that in a couple year's time, when they hit ipod-like mass market (and are a lot cheaper) these could potentially bring a lot of change/possibilities in HE. Unless something else takes over by then of course...

E-paper readers get that little bit closer to mass market. Amazon launches larger version of kindle - business and academia prime markets for larger (and annotating) readers given reports/papers/textbooks.

Adobe Connect web meeting app - available for free for up to three participants (including host - only one who needs to sign up). Participants simply go to the host's meeting room url (which is easy to remember) and can use webcams/audio, share screen/windows, type messages and meeting notes, use the whiteboard, exchange files.

Looks very good - liked the way it went straight to gmail to find contacts - lets try it more widely.

We recommended this to the folks running a Clinical Dermatology course for holding their virtual tutorials and it seemed to work pretty well. It does require quite an up to date version of the Flash player which can be a problem...i.e. anyone attempting to use a student service machine or some staff with 'managed' computers won't be able to use it. I believe Electronic Engineering have forked out for the "pro" version...or at least they have in the past. As usual with Adobe stuff,,,it looks slick! DimDim is another web-conferencing thingy that seems to get a lot of press...haven't used it myself. Elluminate is another one that I've seen used at several meetings I've been to recently.

Very good advice - I did a photoreading course some time ago and the activation stage was crucial - ie when you put the book away and revise what you have learnt from it. The other thing that was not mentioned here which I think is interesting is to do a mindmap or list of what you already know before you read something - I don't know how students here would find it - at Londonmet they found it very difficult - and we really surprised at how much they did know - and how it made reading easier.

This is a great post and it's great that it comes from an academic. In our sessions we do often get bogged down in the "but it's never as good as face to face" debates. I think it's partially because some people can only see e-learning as being all or nothing i.e. your course is online or it's not rather than considering areas of their teaching that might benefit from a bit of e.

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/