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Upcoming future of education webinars. There are some interesting topics, especially in the Education for a Digital World 2.0 Series.

Resources from RSC Wales on web conferencing. Includes list of tools they investigated.

"I'm convinced, however, that lecture capture is a fundamental enabling and catalyzing technology for improving learning (and may be a tool to open access and drive down costs as well)."

Yawningly obvious, but a nice list nonetheless.

The purpose of this e-book is to explore the use of mobile devices in learning in higher education, and to provide examples of good pedagogy. We are sure that the rich variety of examples of mobile learning found in this book will provide the reader with the inspiration to teach their own subjects and courses in ways that employ mobile devices in authentic and creative ways. This book is made up of a collection of double blind peer-reviewed chapters written by participants in the project New technologies, new pedagogies: Using mobile technologies to develop new ways of teaching and learning.

These are DRAFT specifications that are being authored by a joint Open University (IET-OCI-VLE) working group. The document specifies improvements to the accessibility of the Moodle course management system for version 1.7.

Scott Wilso at Uni of Bolton has created some Google Wave widget for Moodle. "I've created a Moodle course that uses some widgets, all of which make use of the Wave Gadget API. Some of these are Google examples (converted to W3C format) and some are ones we've created."

Survey showing students prefer courses where there is lecture capture. Might argue with the methodology - I would have said yes even if I had never been in a lecture before!

Research report on using a micro-blogging platform for course enhancement, as an LMS and as an ePortfolio by Holotescu, C. & Grosseck, G. (2008)

David Parry, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, talks about using Twitter, a new messaging service, for his courses.

Adding a Google presentation to Moodle

OU key skills paper an an example of some tools available in their Moodle.

"What's your experience of group work at uni? Add your comment below"

"Writing notes with a pen and paper helps you remember more, whereas typing gives you greater quantity of notes."