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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.

Microsoft's Windows desktop isn't nearly as efficient at using space as a real desktop. That's what Anand Agarawala concluded more than five years ago, when he began to study ways to create a better user interface for the screen that computer users stare

"Welcome to DnA's Open Source and Free software page. For DnA, the use of Open Source and Free software complements many of DnA's own core values and provides a wealth additional free support for users. The Open Source Software movement developed in the early 1980s and provides accessibility and life-changing support for users unable to access computer software due to high costs."

On February 15th 2011, Loughborough University will host the first Google Apps for Education UK User Group meeting. The meeting is free and open to all comers, and should be of particular interest to institutions already running Google Apps, or considerin

For most of us, security issues happen to "other people"-we block popup ads, we carefully examine dialog boxes and, for those of us on the Mac platform, we snicker when confronted with something that attempts to mimic a Windows system warning.

"CompendiumLD is a software tool for designing learning activities using a flexible visual interface. It is being developed as a tool to support lecturers, teachers and others involved in education to help them articulate their ideas and map out the design or learning sequence. Feedback from users suggests the process of visualising design makes their design ideas more explicit and highlights issues that they may not have noticed otherwise. It also provides a useful means of representing their designs so that they can be shared with others. CompendiumLD provides a set of icons to represent the components of learning activities; these icons may be dragged and dropped, then connected to form a map representing a learning activity. "

n the learning technology field there is no shortage of research questions- but there is a shortage of research funding. Learning technology researchers are increasingly being required to address issues of impact in order to attract funding. At the beginning of the project, they must anticipate the potential impact of their research on end users, beyond the realms of scholarly citations, and put in place measures to demonstrate that impact. This is a particular challenge, especially in a field that in its infancy was prone to adopt a non-critical 'evangelical' stance to learning technology. The field is maturing however, both in its methodological and theoretical approaches, and it would seem pertinent (if not imperative!) that learning technology researchers be proactive rather than reactive with regards to mapping out what impact means in the context of learning technology research.

Interteaching: A Strategy for Enhancing the User-Friendliness of Behavioral Arrangements in the College Classroom

"Leaders in assistive technology Conversor have announced that their SEN-friendly Notetalker solutions are now available for purchase and downloading. Notetalker App, combined with a Universal microphone and cable kit for any smartphone or tablet, uses a simple user interface which allows students to record classes, with the added ability to tag important information with a bookmark or a text description. Photographs can be added to the recording as a visual reminder."

BigBlueButton is an active open source web based video conferencing project that focuses on usability, modularity, and clean design -- both for the user and the developer.

Matterhorn is a free, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content. Institutions will use Matterhorn to produce lecture recordings, manage existing video, serve designated distribution channels, and provide user in

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

Facebook wants to trademark the word "face." The social networker which connects more than 500 million users has already shown how we can all live together as one big happy set of FBF's by forcing other sites to drop "book" from their names, and now, in a

Here's what the official press release won't tell you about Ubuntu 9.04, which formally hit the streets overnight: its designers have polished the hell out of its user interface since the last release in October.

"a Greasemonkey user script that does exactly this. It displays the most recent 5 tweets for the query that you are search for, giving both real-time Twitter search results and Google results on the same page"

The Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge is inspired by and modeled on the Design Challenge series of events sponsored by Mozilla Labs. Design Challenges are intended to encourage innovation, and experimentation in user interface design for the Web. and

The importance of social media is rising up the strategic agenda for management and users at UK Universities. Social Media is growing in its adoption across all areas of society, including Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). To gain a current picture o

Users can search JorumOpen for open educational resources which use the Creative Commons, Version 2.0: UK England & Wales licence using the search tool below

Aimed at younger or inexperienced web users, this video helps explain the long-term risks of sharing inappropriate photos, videos and stories on the Web. We've seen the stories and heard personal accounts about people who shared an inappropriate photo tha

The experience that Assistive Technologists build up in dealing with the use of technology in education is invaluable, but because all students and users are different and use the equipment or software in subtlely different ways there is always more to le