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"Want the world to hear what you have to say? Well, with Hangouts On Air, you can share and record your live discussions and performances with everyone! Hangouts On Air lets you: Broadcast: Invite circles or individual people to join you in a Hangout On Air, then broadcast it to the world. A live player of your broadcast will be posted to your Google+ Home page and YouTube channel. Edit and share the recorded broadcast: Your Hangout On Air will be recorded as a public video and will be available on your Home page once the broadcast has ended. You'll also be able to edit the recording when the broadcast is over. If you edit your video, your post (including the video URL) will automatically be updated to show the edited version."

The virtual world still needs a lot of work if it is to replace the real world says regular BBC columnist Bill Thompson

The launch of Google Map Maker, mapmaker.google.com, for 43 new countries and territories, including Argentina, Costa Rica, and Fiji. Map Maker now allows people to create complete maps for 164 countries across the world.

MIT World is a free and open site that provides on demand video of significant public events at MIT. MIT World's video index contains more than 600 videos

Explore this changing world using the best statistics on health, income, environment and much more.

City University are running a one-day seminar on the topic of "Learn, Teach and Play in 3D Virtual Worlds" and are inviting you to join us in this exciting event! They welcome teachers, students, educational technologists, researchers, and anyone interest

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

Course Builder is our experimental first step in the world of online education. It packages the software and technology we used to build our Power Searching with Google online course. We hope you will use it to create your own online courses, whether they're for 10 students or 100,000 students. You might want to create anything from an entire high school or university offering to a short how-to course on your favorite topi

I asked for suggestions for a replacement for Netskills TONIC and Sam Oakley (@rscsam) also suggested SAFARI "a guided expedition through the information world." This resource was developed by the Open University (OU) and looks like a comprehensive tutorial on accessing, finding and reviewing information  -- and not just from the Internet. The recommended time to work through the examples is 10-13.5 hours. TONIC was much more of a beginners guide to the internet but Safari looks an excellent resource for students embarking on a research project.

"Rethinking assessment in a participatory digital world - Assessment 2.0 Transforming Assessment is an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Fellowship specifically looking at the use of e-assessment within online learning environments, particularly those using one or more Web 2.0 or virtual world technologies."

The series of reports explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation.

"mooc.org is an edX destination. We're working to help educational institutions, businesses and teachers easily build and host courses for the world to take. mooc.org goes live in the first half of 2014. Are you interested in creating or hosting courses on mooc.org? Complete one of the three forms below and let us know how mooc.org fits into your plans. We'll be in touch as we get closer to launch."

"I began to worry about open source when the corporate world stopped worrying and learned to love open source. For me the turning point was a drinks party in Paris in 2003, thrown by the wife of an American advertising executive temporarily based in the city. First, a bit of context for the party and its place in the brief story I'm telling here, which is about the capture of open source by the current corporate innovation system, and the battle for the alternatives that endure."

Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.

This video explains how QR codes are changing the way we access information in the real world through scanning a new kind of code with a camera phone

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

The British scientist credited with inventing the web has said he fears the freedom of the online world is being put at risk by the demands of big business.

Lots of e-learning related conference around the world over the next year or so. Get those papers in :-)

This booklet illustrates how research and scholarship in the social sciences and humanities, nurtured and led by Britain's world-class universities, contribute to the cultural, social and economic health, wealth and reputation of the UK. It shows the publ

The Open University is claiming a world record for the number of iTunes downloads - as the first to reach 20 million.