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THE ACADEMICPUB APPLICATION GIVES EDUCATORS THE ABILITY TO CREATE THEIR OWN CUSTOM BOOKS - IN PRINT AND E-BOOK FORMAT. Our application provides real-time copyright clearance and an ever-expanding content library along with the ability to add your own materials and articles from the web. And - peer recommendations from colleagues in your discipline can present new possibilities to enrich your courses.

Alternative model of university - average class size is 15 students, students take one course at a time for a month

George Siemens on a professor who killed his Coursera course half way through apparently as an experiment!

Examples of scripting. "The aim of Desktop Liberation  and its related blog is to encourage you to take advantage of web capabilities without being constrained by your desktop software. You'll see a few techniques, tips and tricks for sure, as well as fully functional sample applications in various languages and frameworks, with a particular emphasis on Google Technology.   All code is of course unprotected and free to re-use. For more details see Reusing code from this site. Examples are downloadable here and throughout the site."

SHort Faculty Focus piece on connecting with your students and learning vs grades on the first day of a course.

A system to allow staff to easily select the applications they want to use in their courses, manage users and give access to students and externals.

" the ACE Framework to guide our decision-making and professional development planning. ACE stands for Adaptability, Connection, and Equity. ACE elevates three characteristics that are clear, context-sensitive, values-driven, and mission-aligned; we can use them to plan assignment-, course-, and institution-level responses to crisis (such as COVID-19) in the areas of our university that are connected to teaching and learning."

Wikipedia entry about Moocs.

Article wondering about the negative side of Moocs. No great insights though.

Become a @Google internet power searcher in six 50-minute free online classes starting July 10. Register now http://t.co/828Ydszx #yam

A good opportunity to see Google+, Hangouts, groups etc. used in an open course, plus you get a certificate :-)

Part of the MSc in elearning ate Edinburgh Uni.

The code for Stanford's Class2Go platform.

Stanfords open source learning platform - although this seems like a page of blah and can't find a download link or access to the code...

"During the fall of 1999,  two colleagues and I taught an unusual class, 'The American Experience in Vietnam.'   Neither the subject nor the approach of team-teaching were new; instead what we developed was a pedagogy using a variety of information technologies to organize one class simultaneously across three campuses and disciplines."

critique of MOOcs and the direction MOOCs will take us in especially in higher education