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Apple's barring of some applications on the grounds that they compete with its own apps, and others at (reportedly) the behest of AT&T. The moves may well serve Apple's short-term goals. Long term, though, I think they'll make the iPhone a weaker, less us

Twitter, Moodle and Ning get you excited about learning, and blogs, wikis and RFIDs are common terms in your vocabulary. Visiting a virtual world is the norm, and you can't understand why your colleagues don't jump on board the e-learning super highway im

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.

A national study fresh out of SDSU is confirming that Generation Y really is Generation Me. The jaw-dropping conclusion? 57% of young people believe their generation uses social networking sites for self-promotion, narcissism and attention seeking.

Even though plenty of us have found ourselves shortening our tweets to meet the 140 character limitation imposed by Twitter (Twitter), very few of us ever really need 1400 characters.

The requirement to meet the skills needs of employers, for example, is an "elephant trap", as these are "complex and sometimes conflicting" and there may be strong arguments why they cannot or should not always be met at public expense.

BuddyPress is a suite of WordPress plugins and themes, each adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you'd expect from WordPress but aims to let members socially interact

AISHE-J is the journal of the All Ireland Society for Higher Education (AISHE). It is an open-access, peer-reviewed, journal of scholarly research into Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

The free 20-page booklet, helps trainers to understand just how extraordinary the opportunities are for improving the impact, accessibility, flexibility, timeliness, cost-effectiveness and environmental friendliness of learning and development interventio

Aimed at individuals or small groups, the Talis Incubator for Open Education provides angel funding and other forms of assistance for ideas and projects that have the potential to further the cause of Open Education through the use of technology. All we a

Skype is slipping from the grips of its current owner eBay but that's not the only big news from the VOIP service - it's planning a platform to allow third party apps to make Skype calls.

British universities have been encouraged to embrace the concept of the "celebrity academic" and follow in the footsteps of their "shamelessly" self-promoting peers in North America. Chris Brauer, lecturer in online journalism at City University London, s

Everybody likes Android, Google's open-source smartphone operating system. But a smartphone operating system isn't all that satisfying without an actual kick-ass smartphone wrapped around it

It doesn't take much skill to tweet - you simply type what you want to say in under 140 characters. But while the barrier to entry is extremely low, tweeting well is something else entirely.

Professional development courses on how to integrate technology for active learning via blended (BL) and blended online learning (BOL) courses and workshops.

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

Open Source Software guidelines from the National Computing Centre

Over the last 36 hours, the Google Phone - now known as the Nexus One - has gone from rumor to reality. The phone is already in the wild with some lucky Googlers dogfooding the device.

The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) today published its response to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)'s proposals for the new Research Excellence Framework (REF), urging HEFCE to adopt clear guidelines to ensure that inter