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Neil Selwyn essay on SM in HE. Looks good (and academic) but need to come back and read properly!

Preparing for academic study. Learning Objects developed in GomMaker

A new paper reports that the prevalence of cheating among online students is much less than among on-campus students. The study also highlights the danger of distance and disengagement for online students and staff resulting in erroneous perceptions of the relative frequency of cheating among these cohorts.

During the past decade, rapid developments in information and communications technology have transformed key social, commercial, and political realities. Within that same time period, working at something less than Internet speed, much of the academic and policy debate arising from these new and emerging technologies has been fragmented. There have been few examples of interdisciplinary dialogue about the importance and impact of anonymity and privacy in a networked society. Lessons from the Identity Trail: Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society fills that gap, and examines key questions about anonymity, privacy, and identity in an environment that increasingly automates the collection of personal information and relies upon surveillance to promote private and public sector goals.

Article on the difficulty of getting academics to use lecture recording - so much so that Purdue has set up automatic recording!

Academic paper on school students info lit skills.

Article on plagiarism and why it's a behavioural problem. Not sure I buy all the stats as infographiced on http://www.schools.com/visuals/academic-dishonesty.html?WT.qs_osrc=gensynd-cheater

What students think of HE in the UK 2014.

Description of using Slack for academic communication

A framework for disciplinary procedures related to academic integrity.

How to essay mills and contract cheating sites work?

Abstract Managerialism creates burdens for academics with no evidence for its benefit. Business imperatives override educational. There is needless competition between universities. Research imperatives override education. Global inequalities in educational need are ignored, universities have not kept up with the way young people gain information and initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of higher education are 'tinkering' rather than the required total re-thinking of higher education.

Full report of IPPR on the future of HE in UK.

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

"The OERu anchor partners have shortlisted eight university- and college-level courses to be developed as prototypes for refining the OERu delivery system". I wonder whether the psychology course might be of interest to us?