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More than an informal synchronous learning hub. The web conferencing system is free and has features similar to the big boys. (via @DrTonyBates)

"...a 13-minute YouTube video not only explains the process of bringing a new beer to life, it also shows how several Google products were used to do so, including Google Sites, Moderator, Hangouts, Docs, and Apps."

"OpenMeetings is a free browser-based software that allows you to instantly set up a conference in the Web. You can use your microphone or webcam, share documents on a white board, share your screen or record meetings."

This review of collaborative benchmarking in higher education is aimed at people who have a responsibility for evaluating institutional policies, practices and performance. It is intended to provide an overview of benchmarking as a tool for self-evaluation and self-improvement. The overview is published with permission of the journal Quality Assurance in Education 2001.

Anthea in FASS uses this in class

New ning like site. Open source so allows customisation, own hosting, own domain, no ads and allows embeds of a lot of things.

'This Web page offers a variety of resources to help explain and evaluate the educational potential of tools designed for online collaborative work on documents. We focus, in particular, on college and university use of "Google Docs & Spreadsheets." '

Site from Nature with open resources on science (currently focussed on genetics).

This weeks new Google tool! Take a spreadsheet (Google or Excel) and apply visualisations and pivots without needing to know much about what you are doing. Showed me the Gallery when I first opened - need to click 'New Table' to access your own data.

The economics of networks, and new ways  of working online.

Open shared local networks in a box. Useful for collaboration and when you don't need the internet getting in the way.

I had a look and think we could do. Might need Rob to do some soldering.

Here's our justification, it turns out "Darts built the device, originally called Freedrop, as an easy way to share files with his students in class. "I was looking for a device that would allow users in the same physical space to easily share files,' he says. It was a hit, but he soon found that his students had other sharing plans. 'Students started sharing non-class related materials, their favorite albums and so on.'"

Great site that lets you watch YouTube video in synch across the web. Add a Skype feed for great interaction - let's go to he movies together!

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.

Nice idea! Crowdsource your speaker's bio. Saves all that writing in the third person.

HEFCE report from the Online Learning Task Force which aims to address how UK HE can extend its position as a leader in online learning.