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News article showing a Berlin School where the students set their own learning - something to trial in HE perhaps?

"The NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Higher Education Edition is a collaborative effort between the NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE Program. This eleventh edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education. Six key trends, six significant challenges, and six emerging technologies are identified across three adoption horizons over the next one to five years, giving campus leaders and practitioners a valuable guide for strategic technology planning. The format of the report is new this year, providing these leaders with more in-depth insight into how the trends and challenges are accelerating and impeding the adoption of educati"

"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"

Facebook photo albums, online clips and video briefings for international students are among examples of best practice highlighted in a new report aimed at helping universities and colleges better inform their first-years about life at university.

Mini-project and other HE funding schemes are highly competitive and new staff wishing to apply or staff who wish to improve their skills in writing or reviewing high quality proposals for educational projects are welcome to attend an on-line workshop (up

Despite their fondness for social networking and cell phones, most college students say they prefer textbooks in printed rather than e-text form. Nearly 75% of students to recently respond to a major new research survey from the Book Industry Study Group

There have been many attempts to define the generation of students who emerged with the Web and new digital technologies in the early 1990s. The term "digital native" refers to the generation born after 1980, which has grown up in a world where digital te

In the age of the internet with information flying around the globe in unprecedented quantity at unprecedented speeds, what exactly happens to history?

A South Korean couple who were addicted to the internet let their three-month-old baby starve to death while raising a virtual daughter online, police said.

Google have announced a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome - the Google Chrome Operating System. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year they will

If you've got big hands, is it time to ditch your iPhone for Windows? (Yes, I did say Windows!)

Newport use Ning to create a space for welcoming and mentoring new students.

Welcome to inspirED - a collection of news and stories to inspire anyone interested in innovative approaches to teaching and learning. This site is updated three times a year (next update: January 2009) - you can subscribe for e-mail reminders.

Featuring four towering limestone columns and classic Flemish-bond brickwork, the century-old Mackay School of Mines Building at the University of Nevada, Reno, has long served as a bastion of Silver State history. Named after Irish immigrant and "Comstock Lode King" John Mackay, notable touches such as a cast bronze statue designed by Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum just outside the building helped it earn a spot in the National Register of Historic Places. Within its oak doors, however, are the makings of an intriguing experiment that's decidedly more new school. Like a mini museum, a collection of 3D-printed models are displayed within the building's sunlit, three-story atrium -- attracting a mix of students and teachers. Even more popular than the displays of plastic gears and molecule models, however, are the two 3D printers that made them: a professional-grade Stratasys uPrint SE Plus and a hobbyist 3DTouch machine by 3D Systems Corporation.

ALT MOOC

""It's Mooc or die", a university vice-chancellor has said, claiming that institutions must embrace the massive open online course movement and adapt their teaching methods or face a tough future."

"Clickers and Classroom Dynamics By Derek Bruff, Vanderbilt University Classroom response systems create new opportunities for managing student discussions and assessing student learning"

"The Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice aims to provide a supportive publishing outlet to allow established and particularly new authors to contribute to the scholarly discourse of academic practice (both generally and in their discipline area) through the publication of papers that are theory-based and supported by evidence, as well as through the publication of Opinion Pieces and 'On the Horizon' papers on emerging work."

"This policy statement seeks to set a new vision for higher education in Wales as we approach 2020."

"EdX, a nonprofit enterprise founded by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will release automated software that uses artificial intelligence to grade student essays and short written answers."