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Does HE require minimum standards for LMS / VLE use? Post suggests students at least expect so.

Mantz Yorke's second report on the first year experience of HE in the UK. This is a key work in this field.

Donald Clark on why he thinks ASU have got the right approach to growing research and both access to and quality of teaching.

"mapping digital skills in Irish Higher Education"

Long piece on breaking HE into component parts, technology and competency education.

"The Leap Ahead LLN ePortfolio and eSystems pilot report carried out by the Centre for ePortfolio Development is now complete. The project ran trials of over 1000 ePortfolio licences in schools, FE, HE and employees from 2007 to 2009. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/eportfolio/leapahead/ePFLLN.shtml  The following are available now:* Executive SummaryMain points from the full ePortfolio and eSystems report* Five PilotsePortfolios compared, evidence-based, postgraduate PDP, different sectors and levels, raising employees' aspirations* XCRI ReportThe LLN XCRI implementations in Notts & Derbys The full report will be available early July."

FAQs on moving to Google Apps in HE.

"Still images, moving images and sound adviceJISC Digital Media exists to help the UK's FE and HE communities embrace and maximise the use of digital media - and to achieve solutions that are innovative, practical and cost effective."

Disruptive Innovation - an example from US HE of changing hthe way people access universities and undertake degrees.

The vision for the Steeple project is to investigate, develop and document sustainable institutional infrastructure to support university wide educational podcasting. Steeple also hopes to instigate a viable community around scalable, enterprise-level solutions suitable for the UK-HE sector in the areas of automated video/audio capture, video/audio processing, and video/audio delivery ("podcasting").

Enhancing Students' Learning Experiences Through the Use of Digital Storytelling

Long post and comments on the vle vs the ple by John Fontaine, head of 'Platform Evangelism' at BB. Interesting that he appears to view the vle as a transmitter and instructor driven and I wonder if this then justifies the rest of his thinking on the role of technology.

John Beasley-Murray's user page on Wikipedia where he describes creating a writing assignment for his students and the ups and downs of the exercise.

Long sets of data from a survey of elearning use in UK HE.

"he power of storytelling as a pedagogical tool has been recognized from time immemorial, and, in recent times, for e-learning as well (Neal, 2001)."

Will probably be some important stuff coming through this site concerning digital literacy in HE.

Cloud computing for HE. As a pdf for an ereader.

Post about why a HE Professor blogs

A look at social media use in SE Asia and Europe as case studies and how HE can use to increase enrolments.

A free online course on Python - written by a UMich professor and released as CC remix. Includes slides and lecture audio and or video from last time he taught this course on campus.