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Infographic on online education providers that offer online courses - including ones that are free and well known such Coursera & Udacity as well as others that are less well known  which charge subscription fees such as Benchprep and The Great Courses. 

Ben Werdmuller describes the rationale behind Known, his new social network option.

We know mosty of these hints but still some useful new ones. Need to print lots of docs at once? Download all as a zip and print that.

Clark looks at one of Blooms less known findings (as well as the taxonomy) where he compared the lecture, formative feedback lecture and one-to-one tuition.

"Music and movie industries, you're well-known for being incredibly short-sighted, greedy and stupid. I'm not going to argue with that, because you really are."  A post explaining why piracy happens in simple terms.

Keynote presentation delivered to Instituto Cervantes, Providence, Rhode Island.Social network technologies are reforming the way we communicate with each other inside and outside our learning environments. In this presentation, Stephen Downes offers an inside look at these technologies, how they work, what they can do, and where they will likely lead the future of learning online. Downes will first outline some well-known technologies such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, describing how they are used and outlining how they manage online communication in general. [Slides] [Audio]

"Schott, a senior lecturer in the Department of Screen and Media Studies, is known for focusing on the positive aspects of videogaming - its "pro-social" and creative side. His project differed from most research into the topic."