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Book on OER practice.

Authoring platform designed to lead through from writing to publishing and track all changes along the way.

Account of difficulty with Open Access and misunderstanding / misreporting. Not an argument to stop OA but a plea to make the OA change now mean something to readers.

Open Access report from southern Africa.

Great presentation on putting social into workplace learning.

Interesting conversation. Some interesting times ahead, some which may be outside of Martin's control.

Some interesting recordings here. "Changing traditional notions of education"

How creating MOOCs has flowed back into changes in the on-campus classrooms

Op-ed on why DRM and anti-piracy movements are doomed to fail and the invasion of privacy and reduction of human rights that legislation allows, and why people should accept that the times they have a changed ...

This study is an exploratory case study aimed at analysing one academic's teaching in terms of conceptions of teaching and its effect on student involvement or engagement. The research has been done by drawing on Gonzalez' dimensions of online teaching and data generated by the LMS and data analytics in general. There is growing interest in the use of academic analytics. However, most of the reported work is being done at the level of institutions/groupings of courses. Improving teaching can only be done through changing the conceptions of teaching/learning held by the academics. Can individual teaching staff, reflecting on their courses, learn anything important from examining their courses through analytics? How can this be done effectively? What do they find? This study uses an academic's approach to teaching + use as an indicator of involvement, therefore, an improvement of teaching.

Australian Learning and Teaching Council, formerly CARRICK. A number of recent reports available including Learning leaders in times of change: Academic leadership capabilities for Australian higher education and The RED report: the contribution of sessional teachers to higher education

The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.

Very short report on the change of the role of unis in providing content based courses. Thin, but notes OU has 360,000 iTunesU downloads per week and that the VC of the OU says that the value of an institution would not be its course content but how it motivated and supported students.

"The question I'd ask: is the money that mass-marketing colleges are spending on marketing themselves and scaling themselves well spent? Are they organizing for changing lives or for ranking high? Does NYU have to get so much bigger? Why?"