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The full "Edgeless University" report from Demos

Interesting post on the merits, or otherwise, of Moodle.

How ICTs Are Transforming the Lives of Street Children in Kenya

Throughout the last decade, numerous initiatives have been set up to experiment with the establishment of ICT-enhanced activities, under various frameworks and to varying degrees of success. The higher education area is a very complex world with a diverse

Site for the 2008 Wales M***le Moot held at Merthyr College on 2nd July

The study was commissioned to produce scenarios and process models describing timetabling and resource scheduling processes, looking at where these interacted with other administrative process in an institution. It was also expected to summarise how well

This article explores excellence in web-based teaching. Drawing on the views of experts in the field and the perspective of their own years of experience, the authors compiled a list of 9 principles to provide direction in the search for online excellence

This list represents examples of what's currently available & is not an endorsement of any particular product or company

"A new state-of-the-art lecture capture system has been successfully rolled out at the University of Leeds following the new start of term"

"Lecture Capture - Sometimes it's better to be heard…and not seen"

"Since 2006, academics at the University of Surrey have been using a 'clicker' based Electronic Voting System (EVS) to engage students and promote interaction in their classrooms. Although the system has served the University well its reliance on proprietary hardware has limited wider adoption. An issue for students was the need to book clickers out from library services and carry additional electronic devices around (not to mention the prospect of incurring a fine if they lost them). For staff, getting the USB 'dongles' (receivers) to pick up the signal from the clickers at the beginning of the lecture was a concern. The time and resources required to manage and distribute clickers and dongles were a further consideration, as were long-term maintenance costs for the institution."

"We're becoming increasingly used to dealing with the routine business of our daily lives online - from paying bills to buying groceries - so we might imagine that the days of students trudging to campus to hand in assignments, or trying to decipher a tutor's scrawled comments are long gone."