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"Exploring the benefits of Open Educational Resources for media education. Coventry Open Media Classes is a JISC funded project giving open access to educational resources, networks of subject specialists, professional practitioners and learning communities"

This user guide is for educational organisations interested in developing open education practices using popular social media. It is based on an analysis of the Otago Polytechnic experience 2006-2009, where a small group of teachers used social media to develop open education practices. 

An Avalanche is Coming sets out vividly the challenges ahead for higher  education, not just in the US or UK but around the world. Just as we've  seen the forces of technology and globalisation transform sectors such  as media and communications or banking and finance over the last two  decades, these forces may now transform higher education. The solid  classical buildings of great universities may look permanent but the  storms of change now threaten them.

Critical Commons is a non-profit advocacy coalition that supports the use of media for scholarship, research and teaching, providing resources, information and tools for scholars, students, educators and creators. Critical Commons also functions as a showcase for innovative forms of electronic scholarship and creative production that are transformative, culturally enriching and both legally and ethically defensible.

In their work, academics build on the research of their peers, but when it comes to pedagogy, this is not always so. This selection of essays hopes to contribute to changing that by exploring how we learn through digital media; the authors ask how both ready-at-hand proprietary platforms and open-source tools can be used to create situations in which all learners actively engage each other and the teacher to become more proficient, think in more complex ways, gain better judgment, become more principled and curious, and lead distinctive and productive lives.

AU Press is the centre of scholarly publishing expertise for Athabasca University, Canada's Open University. It is the first scholarly press to be established by a Canadian university in the twenty-first century. We are dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge and research through open access digital journals and monographs, as well as through new electronic media.

DERN is a network for, leaders, researchers and educators interested in the use of digital technologies for learning. Users of DERN may have an interest in ICT, media, pedagogy, emerging technologies and related areas and are probably well briefed in the area of elearning research, as well as scholars seeking details about what research has been done, possibly for their own research purposes.

MAGpie (Media Access Generator) free caption- and audio-description authoring tool for making multimedia accessible to persons with sensory disabilities. 

"Hack/ prank/ fail: what YouTube can tell us about students, schools and computers"

Video series addressing topics in online, distributed learning from Indiana University.

"Facebook is fun. Don't be afraid to use it when you're looking for a job. Just remember to adjust your privacy settings, add some professional touches to your profile and be sure that your Facebook account is speaking for you any time a recruiter stops by to take a peak. Good luck!"