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"Every researcher now needs to know about open access and we're here to help you find out how" (deck, ¶1, 2015.06.16).

SCoPE seminar: As video gets easier to record and publish, it's valuable to step back and ask ourselves a few questions: Why use video? What purpose does it serve, and what problems does it solve in the online classroom? How much video is enough? How long should clips be, and how many is too many? What accompanies video? What do we add or create to increase viewer engagement? When is security important? How do we balance accessibility and privacy? What questions do we ask of ourselves and our colleagues when choosing what to film, how to edit it, how to frame it and how to share it? Bring your questions, your ideas, and what you've read to the discussion. We won't find any definitive answers, but certainly some new scenarios and resources, and new questions to jump start discussions in our respective workplaces.

Students can make use of our extensive video library, practice exercises, and assessments from any computer with access to the web.

"My interest in eportfolio tools grew out of efforts to solve a very practical problem: how to allow students to manage and share files (especially large media files) beyond the confines of the institutional learning management system. Students were increasingly asking for better ways to collaborate with classmates and share course and assignment files, as well as for the ability to access their work beyond the duration of a single course. My experimentation with with eportfolio tools began with Mahara, an open source eportfolio application. I piloted the use of Mahara with a small group of students to test whether it would meet their file sharing needs. It was quickly apparent that without faculty engagement, students would be unlikely to invest time in using such a system on their own. This led me to wonder if other institutions had been down similar paths. "

This page provides access to "a practitioner-oriented summary of the book [Digital Habitats] that you can download for free. It is couched as an "action notebook" in the sense that it summarizes dozens of practical steps you can take to support your community" (Action Notebook, ¶1, 2011.06.16).

Anderson and Anderson (2010) characterize online continuing professional education (CPE) conferences as "structured, time[-]delineated" events involving "distributed population[s]" in synchronous or asynchronous use of "online communication and collaboration tools" (p. 15). They suggest that these characteristics may enhance "both the quantity and quality of interaction" in formal CPE sessions, thanks to possibilities for preliminary access to conference materials, world-wide participation, and asynchronous as well as real-time interpersonal engagements (p. 22), which in turn may promote constructivist and connectivist modes of learning within professional communities of practice (pp. 7-10). Anderson, Lynn; & Anderson, Terry. (2010). Online Conferences: Professional Development for a Networked Era. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing

Evaluation of Type With Me "This is an online rich text editor that allows people to share their writing and upload files. It differs from Google docs in that realtime collaborative editing can occur between teams. Authors can choose to have their writing in different colours."