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"Join us for our new webinar series where experts will demystify the world of open educational resources (OER)."

Whirlwind tour through Social Media in pictures. Killer quote is that in late 2010 & 2011, the world went mobile.

The divide in academia - those who blog and engage in the online world, and those who don't. Very good post. Also ties in with the connected researcher sessions we've done for Fass.

"Learn. Unlearn. Relearn. In addition to the content of our course-which ranged across cognitive psychology, neuroscience, management theory, literature and the arts, and the various fields that compose science-and-technology studies-'This Is Your Brain on the Internet' was intended to model a different way of knowing the world, one that encompasses new and different forms of collaboration and attention. More than anything, it courted failure. Unlearning."

"This new learning environment - an augmented reality/virtuality - consists of distributed virtual spaces generated by social software tools, and of the real spaces and objects, in which locative content has been added with mobile devices. Augmented reality, the reality overlaid with virtual reality, and virtual reality, in which representations of the real world have been embedded and contextualised, is enabling interactions both in real and virtual spaces."

Nowadays, the digital version of print magazines and newspapers are becoming increasingly popular among publishers as they can save printing and postage costs as well as they are able to reach a whole new audience in the online world. The continuing interest of digital in the adaptation of digital replica editions of newspapers and magazines encourages web developers to create websites that are offering service to allow anyone to create their own digital magazine and newspaper. Some of these websites are very easy to use, simple and provide you with unlimited access to their resources for free.

"MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses for free to a virtual community of learners around the world. It will also enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences. The first MITx course, 6.002x (Circuits and Electronics), will be launched in an experimental prototype form. Watch this space for further upcoming courses, which will become available in Fall 2012."

Hype Cycle tracks innovations through stages - technology trigger, peak of inflated expectations, trough of disillusionment, slope of enlightenment, plateau of productivity. Can't see MOOCs any where on this graph! 

After several years in which American diplomats have inveighed against Internet censorship in China, the (SOPA) proposals have inspired a bit of snickering. "The Great Firewall turns out to be a visionary product; the American government is trying to copy us," one commentator wrote. A Chinese message making the rounds on Thursday said: "At last, the planet is becoming unified: We are ahead of the whole world, and the 'American imperialists' are racing to catch up."

BBC 10 min piece on where ebooks fit into the library world - but is it the publishers that are controlling the game?

New preso tool

President of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education argues that students fail because universities don't set up situations for them to succeed.

Australian report from Ernest and Young. Some good points about 'drivers' of change but maybe a little too much weight placed on the theme of technological determinism i.e. change is inevitable. 

Using social platforms to share - refers to research a lot.

First MOOCs now SMOC = synchronous massive open online course

Auckland Uni running Virtual Grid.