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"Google's Chrome team made a number of major announcements this morning, including the unveiling of the long-awaited Chrome Operating System."

Feldstein on the commerce and sustainability of open source LMS.

Apple to move into providing ebook creation tools?

David Wiley on why the Apple iBooks announcement is great for open textbooks - although not in the way that big publishers want or have yet perceived.

Slashdot forum on Googles announcement that they will redirect to country specific domains for a blog which has been censored somewhere. So blogspot.com may become blogspot.com.nz if something bloccked here.

Adelaide Uni change from large lectures to small class teaching.

Tony Bates announces his retirement (at 75!). He'll be missed in the field.

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"Brown University announced Monday that it had 'Gone Google'... tools like Google Apps, ... could, in some cases, mitigate the need for a full-fledged LMS."

"Barnes & Noble continues to makes inroads into the education, um, space. It just announced that it has teamed up with Blackboard, the Web site/software suite that is used in colleges all over the U.S."

Hey guys. Thought I'd share a link with yaz. You probably forgot I was still in the group. ;-)

"I have designed and produced a series of 27 brief (7-10 minute) videos related to teaching online."

Google TV anyone. Good analysis of the announcement by Google that they are moving into the TV playback area.

"[Blackboard] announced plans to add a 'Share' button that will let professors make those learning materials free and open online."<--stealing the march on Moodle? #irony

In a move that could shake the e-learning industry, Pearson today unveiled a new learning management system that colleges will be able to use for free, without having to pay any of the licensing or maintenance costs normally associated with the technology. Pearson's new platform, called OpenClass, is only in beta phase.  By providing complimentary customer support and cloud-based hosting, OpenClass purports to underprice even the nominally free open-source platforms that recently have been gaining ground in the LMS market. "I think that the announcement really marks another, and important, nail in the coffin of the proprietary last-generation learning management system," says Lev Gonick, CIO of Case Western Reserve University.

Interesting - although I couldn't get it to work when I tried!

Ignore the start about Stanford pioneering moocs. Notes that they have developed 2 new platforms for running their moocs, one of which supports group work.

Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data sets, including cleaning up inconsistencies, transforming them from one format into another, and extending them with new data from external web services or other databases. Version 2.0 introduces a new extensions architecture, a reconciliation framework for linking records to other databases (like Freebase), and a ton of new transformation commands and expressions.