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Collaborative wiki for community discussion, development and sharing of open educational resources for elearning. Note the featuring of Otago Polytechnic (Leigh Blackall).

Collection of video talks concerning education in New Zealand.

Collection of talks by educators from CORE-ED library - mostly short and would make great discussion starters - particularly good are the two I listened to by Stephen Heppell.

Using the Kaltura video extension for Moodle, teachers can upload and manage rich-media content, such as full lectures in an online course; students can then post video comments, ask questions and create a face-to-face discussion recorded directly from their webcam or other sources.

Enterprise immersive software is a collection of collaboration, communication, and productivity tools unified via a 3D or pseudo-3D visual environment. In this computer-generated environment, one or more people engage in work activities like meetings, conferences, and learning and training. The software provides a shared, interactive, multichannel experience through presence awareness, voice chat, active speaker indication, text chat, and many other features, often including avatars. The Enterprise Immersive Software Decision-Making Guide is a use case-based guide designed to aid business decision makers in the enterprise immersive software selection process. In this report, we present "if/then" scenarios and highlight good-fit vendors for common situations, with a focus on the most prevalent use cases: meetings, conferences, and learning and training. The report offers guidance on how to: 1) ask core business questions to frame the discussion, 2) choose a research-and-demo, do-it-yourself, or combination approach, 3) identify requirements based on your use case, and 4) filter your options based on important limiters.

Tony Hirst embeds the real-time twitter backchannel discussion into the JISC10 conference keynotes (or if you prefer your video without subtitles http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2010/04/jisc10/keynotes.aspx). Something for WCeLfest2011?

"There are countless websites offering images, video and audio files for use in education, but it's not always easy to know which sites are most useful or appropriate. This advice document discusses general tools and strategies for finding digital resources and looks at many of the sites you can use as reliable sources."

Professor Geoffrey Crisp (University of Adelaide, Australia) presents a webinar on the changes in the student learning environment afforded by Web 2.0 and leads a discussion on why assessment practices need to change in response to these new learning environments.

"The conference is part of the Re-engineering Assessment Practices (REAP) project, a £1m initiative funded by the Scottish Funding Council under its e-Learning Transformation initiative. REAP is a collaboration across the University of Strathclyde, University of Glasgow and Glasgow Caledonian University. REAP is evaluating the impact of new assessment practices supported by technology at course, faculty and institutional level.Conference themes: Focusing on assessment FOR learning in tertiary education the conference has three themes to be addressed through keynotes, case studies and structured discussions.Assessment and the first year experienceGreat designs for assessmentInstitutional strategies (designs) for assessment"

"We are developing dynamic Web-based maps, which are a fusion of formal curriculum maps, personal learning records, and community-driven maps. Using established technologies and standards the maps provide 'mash-ups' of information from curriculum databases, ePortfolios and other sources. The project aims to enhance understanding and navigation of the curriculum and provide a means for students to actively map, contextualise, reflect on, and evidence their learning. The maps will also support collaboration, including sharing, rating and discussion of learning resources linked to specific topics in the maps."

Article on the use of clickers not just for answering qns but to encourage attendance, reduce distraction and stimulate discussion.

"This paper will review the changes taking place in learning and teaching, explore the reluctance to embrace more wholesale change to the curriculum, and discuss the implications for institutions in the face of ongoing change."

"When I heard a teacher tell me that they were creating recorded lectures for courses as homework assignments and spending classroom time on discussions and more active learning, I knew right then the value of the lecture capture tools."

"The BehaviourComposer is a web-based tool designed to support teachers, learners and researchers, including those with little or no programming experience, to build, share, and discuss computer models."

Eric Mazur has swapped the nature of teaching and non-contact time and released it as a software. "The basic idea is that the bulk of information consumption should be done outside the classroom and in-class time should be spent doing guided, measured, optimized peer-to-peer discussion in order to maximize retention of knowledge"

First of 2 blog posts on plagiarism vs iterative innovation in the gaming industry. Has some good discussion on the ethics and principles of re-using others work and the implications for creativity and innovation. Other post at http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AndySchatz/20110815/8198/Fishing_the_iOS_Clone_market_and_PatentCopyright.php

.@DTLTToday discuss @Eric_Mazur's @LCatalytics s/w http://t.co/gwTCXAo #lecture + #clickers + peer instruction #pedagogy (via @philshapiro)

Myth 1 - Online Learning Is Impersonal Myth 2 - Too Much Going On Myth 3 - My Class Is Unique Myth 4 - Blogs Are for Navel Gazing Myth 5 - Discussion Forums Push on Strings Myth 6 - Online Group Projects Are Impossible Myth 7 - Tech Problems Will Derail Teaching Myth 8 - You Cannot Convey Passion Online Myth 9 - Virtual Classroom as a Literal Translation Myth 10 - Faculty Training Is About Technology

The Writing Researcher is a new open activity which aims to bring researchers from different disciplines, institutions and countries together to share their writing and provide peer-feedback ina rather informal, friendly environment. ... As it reads in the blog we have set up for the project, The Writing Researcher: Inspiration, Creativity, Fluency  aims to: 1. promote and support writing as a creative, scholarly and collaborative enterprise, 2. encourage discussion and peer feedback in a distributed, shared environment, 3. establish an international, inter-disciplinary, inter-cultural peer network.

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