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A service to host and share PDFs.

Convert HTML & CSS to PDF. Lets you code a lot of the navigation and content in the HTML that translate to PDF. Apparently this is used in the publishing industry for eBooks.

Good tip to create a "Save as PDF" shortcut.

Some information on creating ePubs and PDFs from HTML files.

A new competitor to PDFs. Sounds pretty interesting.

Using data collected from 2,124 student participants from across 15 public and private colleges and universities, the results are carefully analyzed and broken down by different student subgroups.

Tweeting the Night Away: Using Twitter to Enhance Social Presence, describes use of Twitter to enoucrage free-flowing just-in-time interactions that can enhance social presence in online courses.

Instructors have frequently found that some content, such as mathematical formulae, chemistry laboratory experiments, and business practices, are unusually difficult for students to comprehend through text-centered approaches, and that this is especially so for online students. In response, instructor-made videos (IMVs) of three to 10 minutes in length on problematic topics or subject matter areas were produced for business, chemistry, and mathematics courses. The IMVs were intended to scaffold student learning. Initial findings revealed that multimodal IMVs involving the demonstration, illustration, and presentation of key terms, knowledge, skills, and resources can help students understand important procedures, structures, or mechanisms in previously problematic content. Simply stated, IMVs can have a positive impact on student learning.

Interesting ratios of devices on the UT network. I wonder what the UA makeup is. iPhone dominates mobile. Mac dominates wireless. PC still ahead in wired. Read the full report here: http://www.utexas.edu/its/network/reports/Campus%20Network%20Report%202011.pdf

Comprehensive 213-page report from MIT recommending pedagogical transformations including online courses, modularization of courses, game-based learning and more.

"With bContext users can add hand writing notations and narrative to static documents (such as PDF, PPT, or any image)."

Letters from Sherrod Brown and Elizabeth Warren to 2U, Bisk, Pearson, Academic Partnerships, and Wiley

enhance lecture learning in traditional classroom settings and in online education. This article provides a conceptual framework for thinking about attention and memory during video-recorded lectures, particularly as related to online learning, that builds on 3 key claims: (a) online learning can be conceived as a type of self-regulated learning, (b) mind wandering reflects a failure of executive control that can impair learning from lectures, and (c) providing intermittent tests or quizzes can benefit attention and learning. We then summarize recent studies based on this framework that examine the effects of interpolating brief quizzes in a video-recorded lecture. These studies reveal that interpolated quizzing during a video-recorded lecture reduces mind wandering, increases taskrelevant behaviors such as note taking, boosts learning, and also improves calibration between predicted and actual performance.

Includes a couple self-assessments that faculty could take to make sure they have a good understanding of cognition.