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"Back in March I served on a panel along with Liz Gross, Ed Cabellon, and Greg Heiberger at the #sxswEDU conference. Here are some of the highlights: Greg and I talk about our latest research on using Twitter to support students throughout their first year of college. I summarize my recent research on using Facebook in education. Greg explores the future of higher education and how new technologies can be used to effectively improve student success. Liz discusses how to use Facebook to market your institution and programs. Ed explains how to frame productive social media use to administrators. I get snarky about EdTech startups and how they don't communicate with educators."

Can Yammer become the "smartest person on campus"? The experiments in #3 are  our innovation pilots.

Any kiwi HE bands to add?

webinar presentation of the results of a large US survey titled 'Conflicted - Faculty and Online Education" conducted by Inside Higher Education

"Low-cost online courses could help higher education from becoming the next economic bubble that bursts..."

Innovation as an activity. Explore, experiment, exploit.

Some suggestions for designing mobile websites along with relevant highered examples.

Post on what to consider when mobilising your website - and it states that Sites are better than Apps, no matter how cool they are!

Moocs and money. $7k Masters, down from $40k.

"I was roused from my teaching this week by the cacophony of tweets and blog posts on the merits and pitfalls of tweeting another scholar's ideas (the most cited ones authored or collected by Roopika Risam, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Adeline Koh), culminating in "The Academic Twitterazzi" on Inside Higher Ed"

List of recent (back to 2010) startups in the online higher ed field. A range of target audiences.

Open textbooks - the new wave after Moocs?

Point by point refutation of an article complaining about moocs.

Badges have quietly become mainstream.

Chalmers, D. and O'Brien, M. Fraser, K. (ed) (2005) Education development units and the enhancement of university teaching. Education development and leadership in higher education: Developing an effective institutional strategy pp. 50-71. Routledge Falmer , Abingdon, UK

Derek Morrison blogs about e-books and their place in Higher Ed.

1. Agitate openly and very publicly about the role higher education is designed to play 2. Collaborate strategically about how to reorganize resources given information and Internet technologies 3. Fix tenure and our aging faculty demographic 4. Fix peer review 5. Incorporate digital and information fluency in every discipline

Blog post on some things that need fixing in HE and the role that ICT has in many of them. Final one on digital fluency is useful.