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The headline on the YouTube video clip of Karl Walling's lecture in May says simply: US Naval War College Professor Advocates Rape. As a result of some of the comments in the clip, the Naval War College placed Walling, a professor of strategy and policy,

"Never before in history has it been easier to glean from the knowledge of others who will give it away to you for free. It's equivalent to getting higher education." Lon S Cohen

"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."

For those of you that were unable to make it to our inaugural UK User Conference, the videos below should help you play catch up. From Professor Mazur's excellent keynote on Peer Instruction to Paul Burt's practical tips for the deployment of ResponseWare, you'll end up furnished with masses of knowledge.

"Information literacy-the ability to find, evaluate and use information effectively-is an essential skill set. The authors examine how assignments such as case analyses and research reports help business students master these abilities and provide examples of how analytic rubrics with measurable outcomes are particularly suited to assessing these skills. Also demonstrated is how librarians enhance and support student learning of information literacy by teaching in-depth research skills. Working together, professors and librarians can give students a solid foundation in the information-handling skills they need to be effective and productive in the workplace today."

"BITE: Recipes for remarkable research is an edited field book capturing the research, learning and experiences of an international network of scholars studying effective and creative research environments. The book encapsulates what it is that enables remarkable research, and offers, as Professor Lizbeth Goodman says, "practical, evidence-based instantiations of ideas and innovations" as well as theoretical knowledge. It is set out as a recipe book, with supporting academic papers and case studies"

It can seem expensive, but even simple innovations can have a big impact on your institution, students and working life, argues JISC's Professor David Baker

Dimensions of quality, by Professor Graham Gibbs, sets out to identify those factors that give a reliable indication of the quality of student learning.

A University of Oxford academic is setting up an award to recognise misrepresentations of research in the press. Dorothy Bishop, professor of developmental neuropsychology at Oxford, announced the Orwellian Prize for Journalistic Misrepresentation on her

Professors at CUNY debate the pros and cons after enduring technical problems with the course-management system

DENVER - If professors record their lectures and put them online, will students still come to class? That question came up in two different sessions at the 2009 Educause Conference here on Friday. And in both cases, the panelists cited research indicating

Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain plays the contrarian when it comes to cloud computing: Is the cloud really the backbone of the future we want?

The intellectual property rights toolkit for public sector bodies has been developed for the Strategic Content Alliance by the Alliance's IPR consultants, Professor Charles Oppenheim and Naomi Korn.

Video lectures on Learning Theories from Dr. Curt Bonk, Professor of Indiana University and President of SurveyShare, Inc.

""If I have to sit through YET ANOTHER freaking 'professional development' session based on these cockamamie theories, I am going to pluck my eyeballs out and throw them at whatever charlatan the administration hired to conduct said session."- professor on an online academic forum discussing learning myths, including the pyramid."

"Providing an innovative, research-focused approach to nineteenth-century disability studies, undergraduate history students at Swansea University combine the use of archival resources with blogging to publicly disseminate their work. Here, Professor David Turner reflects on the multiple teaching and learning approaches to 'Researching and Re-telling the Past'."

"Published on Jun 18, 2012 "Improving student learning through assessment and feedback in the new higher education landscape""