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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.

You can inspire students to learn with simple demonstrations of your own curiosity

An interactive model taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing (Flash-based)

A Learning Management System Built on Wordpress

A two-year ethnographic study of the student research process.

Does the adoption of plagiarism-detection software in higher education reduce plagiarism?

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries Share   Print

This article describes a framework for evolving innovations to ensure effective local adaptation and shows how this framework helped to scale up three promising practices in teacher professional development.

Ben Cowie blogs about his experiences as a scientist, teacher, learner and human being.

Great video resource providing information about disability and accessibility.

The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching

voicEd.ca is an attempt to create a place where some of that conversation can take place. Gathering around a commitment to quality education and schooling, voicEd.ca is being imagined as a multi-author  virtual space where participants-parents, students, teachers, administrators, policy-makers, community-members-can express their deepest hopes and dreams for Canadian education, speak openly about issues and concerns and work to craft a common vision of our national learning systems as we move further into the 21st century.

Create a short video that explains the benefits and promise of Open Educational Resources for teachers, students and schools everywhere.

An open textbook (via @Saylor) Educational Psychology - teaching for learning

2011 ECAR National Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology

Practical Advice on How to Learn and What to Learn

Digital Ethnography >> Kansas State University

"This fall, I plan to say to people, "I'm using anti-plagiarism software, but I'm still watching out for plagiarists."

Colleges and universities have no reason to view OER as a threat. On the contrary, OER can help institutions provide higher education to rapidly increasing numbers of students and lifelong learners. Traditional colleges and universities, with their experience and reputation, are in a good position to further develop online teaching, testing, learning communities, and certification. Those that produce high-quality knowledge, teaching, and students have little to fear, and much to gain, from Open Educational Resources.

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