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"The series of reports explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation." The ten innovations are: Assessment for learning Badges to accredit learning Learning analytics MOOCs New pedagogy for e-books Personal inquiry learning Publisher led mini-courses Rebirth of academic publishing Rhizomatic learning Seamless learning

How can Twitter, which limits users to 140 characters per tweet, have any relevance to universities and academia, where journal articles are between 3,000-8,000 words long? Can anything of academic value ever be said in just 140 characters? A new Twitter guide published by the LSE Public Policy Group |and the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog |seeks to answer this question, and show academics and researchers how to get the most out of the micro-blogging site. The Guide is designed to lead the novice through the basics of Twitter but also provide tips on how it can aid the teaching and research of the more experienced academic tweeter.

Kieran Mathieson, an Associate Professor at Oakland University who has developed an online site at CoreDogs.com where he publishes lessons, tools, a textbook and more, commented and shared his work.

Simply upload your slides, we convert them so they work on the web. Once they're ready, you head to the record queue, click 'record' and off you go! Present into your webcam clicking the slides as you would if you were presenting to an audience, and at the end click 'publish'! It's as simple as that - no messing about with timelines, cue marks & synchronization, it's all done for you in real time.

This report describes emerging trends, key players and current initiatives in the emerging global Mobile Education and related e-Textbook Publishing markets. From http://www.gsmaembeddedmobile.com