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"'Massive open online courses: Higher Education's digital moment?' tracks the development of MOOCs from a small selection of specialist courses to major online platforms, offering hundreds of courses with millions of users.  The report explores MOOCs' surge in popularity and discusses whether this signals the beginning of a significant transformation in higher education, similar to those seen in other sectors, such as the newspaper industry. It pulls together the recent trends in online education delivery and looks at how universities can respond to the changing online environment."

Great post from Mark Smithers bemoaning the ownership of social media by marketing gurus in universities

NY Times article about the University of the People, which offers degress for free. Volunteer lecturers - which makes me wonder how sustainable this is... Also only offers degrees in computing and business administration

Some students took pictures of exam papers and left them for others to see.

Discussing how universities want to control knowledge rather than letting it flow freely.

World's largest university opens almost ALL its materials!

RT @kiwirip: (via Jacqui Kelly) How can a #university best use #socialmedia for internal #communications? http://gu.com/p/2pefk/tw #yam

Alternative model of university - average class size is 15 students, students take one course at a time for a month

Why universities should be moving from SOA to API and allowing greater access to custom services.

Example of a formal university module aimed at 'digital literacy' for university students. Maybe could be adapted for UoW?

Antioch University Los Angeles becomes one of the first universities to offer credit for two undergraduate courses from Coursera. 

"Higher education institutions face a number of opportunities and challenges as the result of the digital revolution. The institutions perform a number of scholarship functions which can be affected by new technologies, and the desire is to retain these functions where appropriate, whilst the form they take may change. Much of the reaction to technological change comes from those with a vested interest in either wholesale change or maintaining the status quo. Taking the resilience metaphor from ecology, the authors propose a framework for analysing an institution's ability to adapt to digital challenges. This framework is examined at two institutions (the UK Open University and Canada's Athabasca University) using two current digital challenges, namely Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Open Access publishing."

Recommendations for a small US university on how to respond to the Mooc phenomenon.

Australian report from Ernest and Young. Some good points about 'drivers' of change but maybe a little too much weight placed on the theme of technological determinism i.e. change is inevitable. 

Don Tapscott on why universities need to enter the digital age.

"So what do I tell my kids? Should I urge them to go to university? Should I tell them to jack it all in and run off and join a startup? This is what's occupying my mind now."

Wishees is designed primarily to help school and university students and their tutors improve writing in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

The University of San Francisco has revealed the results of a six month 2010 iPad study involving 40 faculty members that looked at how teachers could use the device as a tool in the classroom. The result: while many teachers found the device useful, all thought there was room for improvement.

What is it about copyright that doesn't work in the digital society? Why do millions of people think it's OK to break the law when it comes to file sharing in particular? Sociology of law researcher Stefan Larsson from Lund University believes that legal metaphors and old-fashioned mindsets contribute to the confusion and widening gaps between legislation and the prevailing norms

"But I think there are two important things that online universities bring to the table: (1) Broadening access to higher education, and (2) Leveraging technology to explore new approaches to learning."