How to add a button to your website to let people easily add an event (or all your events) from your public google calendar to their own google calendar.
Gym membership style model for lifelong learning/personal development. Membership fee, then able to go to any course. Details: http://explore.sunderland.ac.uk/
Documents (e.g. pdfs, doc files etc.) can be uploaded to Issuu and it creates a flash viewer with the 'turning the page' effect of a real document. Can then be embedded into webpages etc.
Saw this on a science feed and only scanned it so far. The paper is old, but it might be interesting - various fields are interested in how innovations spread through a community (e.g. agriculture) and considering those theories with respect to education might be interesting. Anyone seen anything similar in the past?
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.
I have an account and tested it with Carl. For me - seemed to work well and could be a useful (and free) way of conducting, say, a tutorial with feedback for someone who couldn't physically be there for whatever reason. Anyone who wants to try, let me know and I'll invite you to the meeting room.
The main interesting thing here is that LSU had a public consultation for deciding on their CMS, thus there is much more information available than normal on how the decision was reached.
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.
Flash animation for discovering the various ways of displaying the same information about risk and how much difference it makes to perceptions. Graphics and numerical data from trials in the media.