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This review of collaborative benchmarking in higher education is aimed at people who have a responsibility for evaluating institutional policies, practices and performance. It is intended to provide an overview of benchmarking as a tool for self-evaluation and self-improvement. The overview is published with permission of the journal Quality Assurance in Education 2001.

Wikipedia to add an open source video engine and allow videos to be reused and remixed

30 tools to create public or private groups in Twitter

The MASLE project has the goal of creating a series of tools for the evaluation of spoken language over the internet.This evaluation will be performed by automatic speech recognition software as well as by human raters.

Lams, Scootle and QTI mPlayer

Short post on too much info. See also comments

Google wiki on Apps in Education

Run your browser as a server, a platform, a service. Unite looks like a radical departure in the web landscape. Will be interesting to see the reality and how it pans out.

Online checking tool for students developed by Turnitin makers.

Will have to try this one out!

Commercial student response system using students mobile devices, laptops etc.

Anthea in FASS uses this in class

The MOMO (Mobile Moodle) project is an Add-On to the popular Moodle Learning Management System. It brings the ability to implement mobile learning scenarios with Moodle as a backend. Mobile users install the MOMO client, a JAVA based application, on their mobile phones (or any other JAVA and Internet capable device). Through this client they can access courses wherever they are, which allows completely new scenarios. Administrators install the necessary MOMO extension on their Moodle server which makes the compatible contents available for mobile usage. They can configure and maintain the system through the integrated administration interface all within Moodle. Teachers can design courses with either several mobile elements or complete mobile learning scenarios using the tools and methodologies they know from within Moodle.

"To meet the goal of "preparing people for an ever-changing world", instructional programs need to apply strategies that focus on the development of critical thinking, problem solving, research, and lifelong learning. Those goals require a sociocultural approach to instruction emphasizing learning from experience and discourse. Sociocultural instructional designers question the applicability of traditional ID models because their molecular approach focuses on controlling the learner and environment, which often leads to inert knowledge. This article develops a sociocultural ID model and compares views of learning, roles of learners and teachers, instructional strategies, and the use of tools with the traditional ID approach."

A good set of diagrams that folk have come up with to describe their (or their vision of a) personal learning environment - PLE

New ning like site. Open source so allows customisation, own hosting, own domain, no ads and allows embeds of a lot of things.