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Video: Teaching With Twitter - Chronicle.com - 0 views
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David Parry, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, talks about using Twitter, a new messaging service, for his courses.
The Professors Behind the MOOC Hype - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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A survey of academics who taught on Coursera and Udacity Moocs and their perceptions.
Colleges Consider Using Blogs Instead of Blackboard - Chronicle.com - 0 views
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Chronicle report on talk by Jim Groom on using blogs to teach online. Chronicle comes over as apologists for Blackboard (you wouldn't want to read their stuff regularly!) and doesn't really explore the opportunities that Groom would have been highlighting.
A Calculating Web Site Could Ignite a New Campus 'Math War' - Chronicle.com - 0 views
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Report on WA and how teaching might have to change since it can solve complex equations and show the steps involved.
A Digital Solution to Academic Publishing? Introducing Anvil Academic - ProfHacker - Th... - 1 views
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Info about a new open source academic publishing house looking to be scholarly and multimedia friendly.
Providers of Free MOOC's Now Charge Employers for Access to Student Data - Technology -... - 0 views
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Coursera now passing student details to employers (with the students permission - opt in). Allows people to seek work through the courses they have done.
What Professors Can Learn From 'Hard Core' MOOC Students - Technology - The Chronicle o... - 0 views
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The Chronicle with more surface stuff on MOOCs. There's very little to learn about Mooc design except don't make instructions ambiguous (with which I totally agree!)
Jump Off the Coursera Bandwagon - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views
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a thought-provoking article that puts forward the thesis that MOOCs and Coursera are the wrong direction for higher education - that personalisation and customisation of learning are the direction we should be working to develop.
Georgia Tech and Coursera Try to Recover From MOOC Stumble - Wired Campus - The Chronic... - 0 views
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FOE Mooc reporting.
Minnesota Gives Coursera the Boot, Citing a Decades-Old Law - Wired Campus - The Chroni... - 1 views
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MN has to protect its students so no Moocs allowed without authorisation!
3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up - Wired Campus - The Chronicle ... - 0 views
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Publishers realise oer is a threat and try lawsuits to prevent. Seems like there might be some trolling in the comments from 'Disgusted of Academia' or possibly publishers employee!
New Digital Tools Let Professors Tailor Their Own Textbooks - Technology - The Chronicl... - 0 views
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'tailored' textbooks with mashups of content
Canadian Faculty Union Warns That Student Postings of Lectures Could Violate Copyright ... - 0 views
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Don't post your lecture recording if you're a student - OK if you're staff.
Coursera Throws a 'Massive Open Cookout' - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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Ng & Koller talk about Coursera at a meetup in California. This news article describes that and quotes Ng saying that the Coursera experience could be as big as Google
At New Online University, Advertisers Will Underwrite Free Degrees - Wired Campus - The... - 0 views
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"...students may be asked a question like 'Are you a runner?' when they log into the learning-management system. If a student checks 'yes,' he or she will thereafter see ads for a certain brand of running shoes on the home page."<--quick Troy write a plugin for Moodle!