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Tom Prebble comments that Ako Aotearoa are sponsoring a series of Taking the Lead workshops.

Bates' comments are something to take on board for us. Perhaps we need to create some briefing papers.

"A brief but informative booklet has just been released by BECTA titled Messages from Evidence: Assessment using technology."

"The question I'd ask: is the money that mass-marketing colleges are spending on marketing themselves and scaling themselves well spent? Are they organizing for changing lives or for ranking high? Does NYU have to get so much bigger? Why?"

Tony Bates 12th book entitled 'Integrating technology in universities and colleges' is based around case studies on managing technology in universities.

Kobo eReader and eBook store

Some lessons on the fall of Ning and some alternative options.

Description of setting up a Google custom search engine than can have its source sites dynamically updated via xml.

"Her plan? Turn over grading to the students in the course, and get out of the grading business herself... Her approach works based on contracts and 'crowdsourcing.'"

Comment on Katz article on academic scholarship in the digital age.

Terry Anderson reflects on his NZ visit: "New Zealand is doing a great job of supporting the development of high quality teaching and learning in tertiary education."

via Apple evangelist Peter Mellow an Apple seminar on open access learning in higher education. Streamed via iTunes... kidding ;-)

Cloud Browse - How to access Flash content / sites on Apple mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch)

"...a long video from November 2009 in which Eric Mazur, who teaches physics at Harvard, describes the main innovations he has made in how he runs his courses - and the painstaking empirical research that he has used to guide these changes. "

Paper on a PLE approach.

"Which of the following predictions about the future of libraries were made by university administrators? Within five years, libraries will focus exclusively on electronic resources Academic computing and libraries will merge. Librarians who do not produce will be reassigned or fired. The library will only house materials that are actively used. Libraries will shrink, in both collection size and staffing, and funding will be redirected from libraries to more critical and productive areas of the university." Sound familiar?

George Siemens "shares some Elgg love": "When I survey the landscape of educational tools, I come to the following conclusion: Elgg is the most important tool, currently available, in shaping the future of learning."

The University of California, Davis has stopped using Gmail for its 30,000-member staff and faculty body. The university was trying Gmail for faculty and staff with plans to roll out service to the entire campus. But school officials say the e-mail system isn't secure or private enough to meet their standards.