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OpenSky is a free service provided by Gizmo5 which allows any mobile phone, web browser or IP aware phone network (SIP, asterisk, etc) to communicate with Skype users. OpenSky supports sending text messages and voice calls.

"When researchers selectively report significant positive results, and omit non-significant or negative results, the published literature skews in a particular direction. This is called 'reporting bias', and it can cause both casual readers and meta-analysts to develop an inaccurate understanding of the efficacy of an intervention. This paper identifies potential reporting bias in a recent high-profile higher education meta-analysis. It then examines a range of potential factors that may make higher education learning and teaching research particularly susceptible to reporting bias. These include the fuzzy boundaries between learning and teaching research, scholarship and teaching; the positive agendas of 'learning and teaching' funding bodies; methodological issues; and para-academic researchers in roles without tenure or academic freedom. Recommendations are provided for how researchers, journals, funders, ethics committees and universities can reduce reporting bias"

"If you can't convince them, confuse them." Simply put, this is the advice that J. Scott Armstrong, a marketing professor at the Wharton School, coolly gives his fellow academics these days. It is based on his studies confirming what he calls the Dr. Fox ypothesis: "An unintelligible communication from a legitimate source in the recipient's area of expertise will increase the recipient's rating of the author's competence."

The conference organisers welcome 500-800 word abstracts for full research papers. Submissions for other types of presentation, such as workshops, symposia, demonstration, installations are also encouraged

The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is pleased to invite applications to the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Fund for Wales for up to £2,500 per proposal. This is an open call and proposals are welcome any time up to Friday 13 May 2011.

The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is pleased to invite applications to the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Fund for Wales for up to £2,500 per proposal. This is an open call and proposals are welcome any time up to Friday 13 May 2011. Projects need to

"We welcome all proposals, suggestions and ideas for the conference programme related to the main conference themes at ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2011. You are invited to submit proposals:"

A central part of SCORE is its two fellowship schemes, the Short Term Fellowship Residential Course and the SCORE Teaching Fellowships. We expect to fund 36 fellowship projects between 2010 and 2012. Fellows work is expected to inform, influence and impac

Microsoft is opening up a new office software called OfficeTalk in a "limited private pilot" scheme. The service is basically akin to Yammer - and on a smaller scale - a Twitter rival.

This site randomly displays the private phone numbers of unsuspecting Facebook users.There are uncountable numbers of groups on Facebook called "lost my phone!!!!! need ur numbers!!!!!" or something like that. Most of them are marked as 'public', or 'visi

Here's one for all you lovers of futuristic interfaces. An interactive hardware company called Displax has begun marketing Skin, a paper-thin, flexible film that would transform any non-metal surface into an interactive touchscreen.

It is counter-intuitive in the extreme, but young researchers are failing to make use of so-called "emergent technology", such as Web 2.0 tools, to support their work.

Skype is slipping from the grips of its current owner eBay but that's not the only big news from the VOIP service - it's planning a platform to allow third party apps to make Skype calls.

Hand-held electronic devices called clickers are helping college students learn physics, according to a series of research studies.

"A good way of getting e-tivities designed and deployed for learning and teaching is to use a team-based learning design process called Carpe Diem, which includes a two day workshop. The idea behind Carpe Diem was that every moment of the time during the workshop would be spent on designing something that could be put into immediate use with participants - so I used the term 'Carpe Diem', the Latin for 'Seize the Day'"

"Pushing the laziest student in class to work a little bit harder can be an infuriating task for lecturers. However, where one-to-one mentoring and encouraging words have failed, peer pressure might just work, according to a study on how to motivate so-called "shirkers"."

"The UK Change Agents Network is pleased to announce a call for papers for the inaugural edition of the Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership & Change. The journal will support research into partnerships between staff and students that identify, lead and deliver change in education across all disciplines. This edition will share and celebrate the outcomes of staff and students working in partnership on innovation and change projects. The project is co-funded by Jisc and the University of Greenwich."

"Applications are invited for the next Leading Transformation in Learning and Teaching (LTLT) programme which will start in March 2015. LTLT is the leadership programme to transform programmes and courses in higher education to meet new needs and expectations. It has been jointly designed by the HEA and the Leadership Foundation to help participants develop the skills, approaches and insights needed to lead course and programme teams through processes of transformation and innovation in curriculum development"

Record and edit Skype audio and video