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Why Coursera & Udacity are killing Open Education.

Useful slides on why tablets are useful in education and how to design for them.

We are stooping lower. After an Apple presentation, a US school board moves to claim copyright on all student and staff work.

Recommendations for a small US university on how to respond to the Mooc phenomenon.

Interesting tool I came across after following a discussion about people changing their CC licence and then end users struggling to prove that they had fairly used under an earlier license. "mageStamper is a free tool for keeping dated, independently verified copies of license conditions associated with creative commons images. You can use it to safeguard your use of free images from license changes, or to prove you are the original image creator."

"In this security conscious era, many people have advocated implementing 2-step verification for Google Apps (or 2-step verification for Gmail).  I agree, and am here to pass along some tips that I have learned while implementing Google's 2-Step verification. These tips are both for users and admins."

Infographic on the 20 best LMS although the infographic really seems to be about the 20 'most popular' LMS systems as criteria for 'best' are not listed... Note that Moodle is No.1 but the surprise is Edmodo which comes in at No.2. 

Seb Schmoller with short piece on moocs and why they are worth attention.

Sometimes we forget what our priorities are!

Short video of an AR future. Interesting. Commercialism and ads still rule!

How tech can result in bad outcomes through external bias and social failures. We can forget that there is more to tech than it being "just some software."

Simulations that really are short. The theory is that you focus on one thing in the sim.

"Learning Space as Creation Space The next generation of learning spaces will take all the characteristics of an active learning environment-flexibility, collaboration, team-based, project-based-and add the capability of creating and making. Project teams will be both interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary and will likely need access to a broad array of technologies. High-speed networks, video-based collaboration, high-resolution visualization, and 3-D printing are but a few of the digital tools that will find their way into the learning space. The ability to rearrange furniture and technology quickly and easily will be highly desirable. Some project activities will need nothing more than comfortable furniture, food, and caffeine. Others will require sophisticated computational analysis and the ability to do rapid prototyping. Acoustics will be a concern and will need to accommodate a wide range of activities. It seems likely that such space will support more than one team or activity simultaneously. That will be a highly desirable trait, fostering serendipitous discovery and innovation. The ability to quickly and easily capture the group's activities and progress will also be desirable. An emerging class of powerful and effective collaboration tools enables project teams to save and store project elements, resources, concepts, plans, designs, models, and renderings-in short, all the "stuff" that a team might find or make."

How deep or broad are different social networks. Thinking about community vs network. Don't entirely agree that community not possible on Twitter but get her point.

A site supporting the use of eportfolios at a school where they are using Google Sites and Apps.

"Facebook and Apple are leading to the Balkanisation of the Internet"

TBL on why FB, Abble and Apps are bad for freedom.

Options for using Twitter. "It is organized by the categories WATCH (easiest degree of difficulty, TALK (moderate), and PRODUCE (highest degree of difficulty). We did our best to put each box in the appropriate place. Therefore, some of them are in between different degrees of difficulty, etc."

"Many eLearning professionals are locked into creating SCORM compliant courses for their customers and that has been limiting in regards to new user-generated content on services such as YouTube.  It's nice to see tools addressing these concerns moving the industry forward."

In growing numbers, scholars are integrating social media tools like blogs, Twitter, and Mendeley into their professional communications. The online, public nature of these tools exposes and reifies scholarly processes once hidden and ephemeral. Metrics based on this activities could inform broader, faster measures of impact, complementing traditional citation metrics. This study explores the properties of these social media-based metrics or "altmetrics," sampling 24,331 articles published by the Public Library of Science.