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The internet is an invaluable resource to self-educated learners. Below is a list of some of the most helpful sites out there including opencourseware materials, free libraries, learning communities, educational tools, and more.

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.

Derek Bruff, assistant director of Vanderbilt University's Center for Teaching, has written a book that reviews the uses of clickers and offers advice for institutions and professors. The book -- Teaching With Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments -- is just out from Jossey-Bass.

Edupunk, as defined by the New York Times, is "an approach to teaching that avoids mainstream tools like Powerpoint and Blackboard, and instead aims to bring the rebellious attitude and D.I.Y. ethos of 70s bands like the Clash to the classroom." The term was coined by Jim Groom, Instructional Technology Specialist at the University of Mary Washington.

The analysis of the potential benefits in post-secondary settings also includes considerations of the obstacles to institutional adoption and challenges to successful implementation.

Twitter is the class' main mode of communication, and he writes that Twitter has replaced three classroom technologies: listserv, email, cardboard box to collect papers.

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

A Stanford site to share faculty practices.

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

Shutterborg is a free word processor that runs entirely in your web browser. Instead of using expensive desktop software, Shutterborg makes life easy by allowing you to edit documents online for free. It's easy to get started - just click an option from the list on the right.

I am seeing a day rapidly approaching where many of the major Institutions provide platforms that empower open content and scholarly activity … a place where the next LMS/CMS is simply a browser, a social bookmarking toolset, and perhaps a social recommendation space (like Times People). Imagine how amazing it will be when the best content is published in the open where debate, conversations, and discourse happens at the micro and macro level.

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.

If you're ready to go beyond dabbling with Twitter, join us for our new "Advanced Twitter for Business" webcast on February 6. Learn everything you need to launch a successful Twitter strategy for your business.

It's an thought-provoking model of networking, inviting you to navigate a visualization of two parallel networks, one of research interests and one of academic institutions. Research topics and publishing outputs become the organizing principals.

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.

From here, you can add lists of people who should NOT be able to see this part of your profile. For example, if you wanted to block a list of work colleagues or those in your family from seeing your status updates, you could do so here - just type the name of your list in the box "Except these people" and save your changes.

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.