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The new Culture24 website is finally ready to be unleashed on the public, which means we have to bid a fond farewell to the old 24 Hour Museum website.

"This website provides an introduction to digital collections designed for education. They are mainly aimed at university students, researchers and librarians but many of the online archives are open to anyone. The collections cover areas such as history, social sciences, or science and engineering and include, for example, journals, newspapers and images."

Abstract - Staff and students in the UK often dismiss MCQs (Multiple Choice Questions) as being associated with rote learning, but not understanding. However one of the biggest results ever published in education shows how mistaken this attitude is. The most important aspect of deep learning is probably being concerned with reasons rather than only with conclusions. If you want to test for knowledge of reasons then you can easily design MCQs to give the facts and ask about reasons. More interestingly, you can use MCQs that ask about facts to provoke learners to search for reasons. One method is to have students design MCQs (together with automatic feedback explaining why each response is right or wrong): the PeerWise software can organise this as an assignment in large classes. Another method is to use questions delivered by EVS (electronic voting systems) to catalyse peer discussion, even in huge classes. This talk will discuss some of the big educational results, and also psychological research that partially illuminates the mechanism. Supporting website for a SALT seminar presented by Steve Draper of Glasgow University at Swansea on 23rd November 2011.

With Mocksup you can upload website mockups and customize their background and alignment to make them look more like real pages. You can also link mockups together to give the feel of a real working site.

Engineering Education is a peer-reviewed, international journal and is freely available via the website of the Engineering Subject Centre and distributed in paper format to all UK university libraries and Engineering departments. Two issues are published

A new European-funded initiative is advocating an entirely new system of science publishing, in which scientists avoid the hassles of traditional peer review by taking a quietly radical step: post their results on their websites.

The Government has confirmed that it is to launch an official annual university league table, using measures such as students' personal feedback on their lecturers via the website Twitter.

From Paul Latreille via Twitter - Bloggers can now add text-to-speech capabilities to their site with new tools such as Odiogo, allowing readers to actually listen to blog posts on the website, and even on iTunes (as well as iPods and iPhones) as a podcas

Lizzer is a Firefox bookmarklet that allows you to search for pictures, videos, documents, and websites without having to leave your blog editor. Once the Lizzer bookmarklet is installed simply click on it anytime you need to find additional media to add

Here's a run-down of more than 60 great how-to sites and guides covering everything from building a mashup to being more productive, creating a website and more.

Social networking websites such as Facebook are helping to reduce college drop-out rates, it is claimed.

Welcome to Yale College LRC's NetVibes pages for students and staff. Here you will find links to websites, blogs and useful resources.

Your audience votes by sending an SMS to a local phone number and the results are updated in real-time in your PowerPoint presentation or on your website. 500 votes per month free!

"This screencast captures a research presentation given by the Assistant Director of Rice's Center for Teaching Excellence, Betsy Barre. As Co-Chair of the Committee on Teaching's Subcommittee on Teaching and Course Evaluations, she performed a review of the research literature on student ratings of instruction, and this presentation is a summary of that literature review. Please feel free to jump ahead to the portions of the presentation that are of most interest to you, using the time indices below. If you have further questions, please consult the selected bibliography on the CTE website here: http://cte.rice.edu/studentevaluations"

I asked for suggestions for a replacement for Netskills TONIC and Sam Oakley (@rscsam) suggested the Internet Detective (developed by the University of Bristol and Manchester Metropolitan University from an original tutorial by Marianne Peereboom. Though launched in 2006 it doesn't appear to have been updated since 2009. TONIC was about the internet generally though, not just research.

University of Ulster: an approach to curriculum design.

Molly is a framework for the rapid development of information and service portals targeted at mobile internet devices. The framework follows a "batteries included" philosophy, featuring a wide variety of applications and connectors to common and standards

Here's the first of a series of posts to document an evolving participatory geography project. Year 8 students will annotate their local area with QR codes that link to web-based work exploring their relationship with place.

Learn how to embed almost anything in your HTML web pages from Flash videos to Spreadsheets to high resolution photographs to static images from Google Maps and more.

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.