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Question and answer web-based app that has some nifty features for tracking student questions and who answers

"But the answer isn't yes or no - the answer depends on the student's learning style, gender and motivation."

"It's all about collaborative learning, where the teacher is less of a 'sage on a stage' who knows all the answers, and more of a 'guide on the side', who encourages the students themselves to ask questions and find the answers from the incredible wealth of resources now instantly available to them on the Web."

some interesting tools I have never heard of e.g. Wolfram Alpha

The questions that are asked about every new technology - and the one word answers that are generally all that are required. An XKCD classic.

Don't focus on content delivery, focus on quality interaction, AKA solve the correct problem.

An account of someone who isn't bothered about learning and won't ive feedback to students in a Mooc. Scale might be a reason but that's not the rationale being used.

"There are countless author and book production platforms to choose from these days. So why would you want to use a new one like PressBooks? In this TOC interview, I sat down with Hugh McGuire (@hughmcguire), co-author of "Book: A Futurist's Manifesto" and founder of PressBooks to help answer that question. I should point out that I'm a fan of the platform. In fact, that's one of the reasons we agreed to have Hugh create and produce "Book: A Futurist's Manifesto" on PressBooks."

"What factors are most important when evaluating a specific IT collaboration? To answer this question, the authors asked an experienced group of IT leaders to analyze collaborations with which they had direct experience and to identify the most important success factors for those activities. The dozen individuals who agreed to participate in telephone interviews represent more than 300 years of experience in higher education. The authors then reviewed the results of the telephone interviews and consolidated and summarized them to create a list of the 12 most important success factors identified by the participants."

.@OSQA has answers! (and #badges) http://t.co/qDVvN94h We could power a great #digitalliteracy self-helpdesk with this (via @sleslie)

A new Twitter guide published by the LSE Public Policy Group and the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog  seeks to answer this question, and show academics and researchers how to get the most out of the micro-blogging site. The Guide is designed to lead the novice through the basics of Twitter but also provide tips on how it can aid the teaching and research of the more experienced academic tweeter.

Book Review "This book examines various views and perspectives on digitisation. As Simon Tanner, Director Digital Consultancy, King's College London says in the Foreword: "Digitisation has become a cultural, scholastic, economic and political imperative and raises many issues for our consideration." Furthermore, that the book: "...seeks to address and answer some of the big questions of digitisation"

Google help page on country specific URL redirect for Blogger. Avoid the redirect by using http://[blogname].blogspot.com/ncr

backchan.nl is tool for involving audiences in presentations by letting them suggest questions and vote on each other's questions. backchan.nl is intended for conference or event organizers who want a new way to solicit questions from the audience and make better use of question and answer time.

Dave Cormier on what Moocs mean to him. Good background and miles away from the Udacity hype.

"LectureTools is a student response system that also allows students to take notes linked with the slides and videos presented in class, answer instructor generated questions and pose questions to the instructor. All notes, questions and activities are instantly synchronized with the LectureTools web application."

Put the dot where it where it has meaning. Answer the question by placing a dot.