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A computer science professor at an Australian University is doing something revolutionary with YouTube - he's offering students who can't attend his classes college credit for watching his videos. Richard Buckland, a senior lecturer at the University of NSW in Sydney, Australia, was frustrated that high school students with a passion for computing and capable of studying at the college level were not able to make the commute to the university fit into their school day.

observations at a specific urban university in the mid-west, shows vast variation in terms of faculty who choose to utilize online instructional technologies and a significant lag in desired online development.

Baylor University welcomed to its campus yesterday the CogDog himself, Alan Levine, for conversation, tours, and an afternoon presentation titled "NMC 101, An Introduction to the New Media Consortium."

After describing the ways in which copyright law challenges educators and universities, McGrail and McGrail offer some strategies for dealing with copyright in the new millenium and conclude with a call to revise copyright law in a way that acknowledges the realities of Web 2.0.

More than 120 attended the 16th annual UD Winter Faculty Institute on Jan. 6. Corresponding to the theme of the month-long program, "The Ecosystem of Learning at the University of Delaware," the day's events demonstrated how teaching tools and learning practices are rich, diverse and highly interconnected.

Today I was talking some collaborators on LLL3D about how to visualise concepts in Second Life. I remembered I had seen some twitterers mentioning that the University of Iowa had a visualisation of Bloom's taxonomy, I did a search and found that they had interactive models of both Bloom's taxononmy and Wenger's Communities of Practice.

As I've carried on my work this month, I've returned again and again to the role of computers in learning. I keep trying to understand not only the subject itself, but the sources of my own fascination. The presentation at Delaware was perhaps my fullest effort to date to get at the vexed question of what a computer is, or rather, what it symbolizes.

Rodríguez congratulated committee members on playing an instrumental role in the successful selection, promotion, and implementation of Sakai as the replacement for WebCT at the University of Delaware.

Educators have been searching for ways to modularize and share educational content since the inception of online learning. However, for reasons both cultural and technological, the academic community has been slow to accept past attempts to support learning through the use of reusable, stand-alone, digital assets. With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, widgets, along with a new generation of web-based and mobile content aggregators, provide the key to successfully packaging and delivering web-based educational content. In this Webinar, Marino will share how the production of portable course content in widgets has opened his writing course, and Metros will discuss ways to work with information technology leaders and university administration to deploy and promote widgets as an innovative and supportable learning technology.

Consistent with Cathryn Gorlinsky's poster on Leadership in World of Warcraft at the WFI09.

A group of scientists at Cambridge University has conducted a study that shows that associations in videogames transfer directly to the real world.

This group is for students of the University of Albany ETAP687 course, Introduction to Online Teaching.

It was to some extent humiliating for students to realize that they had bought into a system which doesn't work. In which they can be convinced that they've learned something even though they haven't understood it. It was a bit of a shock to them, but that shock is essential. You have to be willing to accept that you don't really understand something if you're going to be a researcher who makes great discoveries of how nature functions and so on.

Future generations of learners will no doubt look back at the global economic crisis of 2008-9 and reflect on which institutions were agile enough to make a difference by bringing the wisdom of their scholars together with the acumen of their technology officers and the ingenuity and determination of their university leaders.

University of Delaware Information Technologies has announced that faculty and staff can now create "project" sites on Sakai@UD -- the UD-supported learning management system.

Writing in the 21st Century, a new report by Kathleen Blake Yancey, NCTE Past President and writing researcher and writing faculty member, Florida State University, discusses writing in school, the workplace, and civic society

Pictures taken by Mathieu Plourde during the Winter Faculty Institute at the University of Delaware on January 6, 2009.

The Provost's Office will make the scholarly article available to the public in an open- access repository. The Office of the Provost, in consultation with the Faculty Committee on the Library System will be responsible for interpreting this policy, resolving disputes concerning its interpretation and application, and recommending changes to the Faculty.

With state budgets crippled, endowments declining, and requests for financial aid mounting, universities and colleges around the United States have sharply curtailed faculty hiring

Beyond Sakai 2.6, a vision of the future of the Sakai LMS. Slides presented to the LMS Committee at the University of Delaware. January 21, 2009.

A customizable portal page. Uses widgets to link to dynamic content.