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"As part of my open textbook on Teaching in a Digital Age, I am working my way through theories of learning and methods of teaching. I will post shortly my initial draft on theories of learning and their relevance for a digital age. In this post I want to discuss the lecture and its relevance for a digital age. Comments as always are more than welcome."

The LMS is (not) dead?

Mike ''MOD'' O'Donnell from TradeMe on why the TPP is bad for copyright and bad for consumers.

Excellent piece on the meta-rhetoric surrounding the demise of (Thrun's) Moocs.

"So you buy the hardcover and then pirate a homebrew e-book ...the interesting question isn't one of law, it's one of ethics"

Handy tip on using Google Voice when have wifi but no phone signal.

Project to embed usb drives in walls etc for anonymous, no connection, sharing. Could be like e-geocaching!

"One of these dead ideas is that grading motivates learning. Pike contends that grading motivates getting grades."

This article is worth reading. An interesting thought piece (two actually) on the move away from the open web to closed systems running across the internet that control the devices we use, the delivery mechanisms and the content we consume (read Apple).