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Excellent article from Audrey Watters on the rewriting of Mooc history and why it is important that such things are not twisted to develop a new narrative that suits those doing the rewriting.

Using Mahara for Personal Development Planning (PDP) in the UK.

Tony Bates on Moocs and the sideshow focus.

Very interesting account of Myers Briggs and some of the racist and sexist undertones to the development of the test / indicator.

project led by University of Sussex to develop advanced analytics in Mahara

"The student digital experience tracker, a pilot scheme to provide first-hand insight into learners' expectations and views on technology in an education setting, showed that 72% of HE and 70% of FE and skills learners believe that when technology is used effectively by teaching staff it enhances their learning experience - giving credence to the argument that practitioners need to develop their own digital skills to deliver learning and teaching."

"Many eLearning professionals are locked into creating SCORM compliant courses for their customers and that has been limiting in regards to new user-generated content on services such as YouTube.  It's nice to see tools addressing these concerns moving the industry forward."

"...exploring how universities and colleges can help teaching staff, researchers, support and administrative staff to develop their digital literacies"

"Here on the Guardian's data team, we've wanted to help you visualise our data and create new viz styles for a long time. And now, thanks to some great work by the Guardian's Interactive team, that dream has moved one step closer. This week, developers Alastair Dant and Alex Graul launched the first part of the Miso project. In this piece, Alex explains it is a "Set of Open Source tools designed to make it faster and easier to create high quality interactive and data visualization content""

Scott Wilson reports on an open source initiative to develop web app stores for universities and other communities.

"The OERu anchor partners have shortlisted eight university- and college-level courses to be developed as prototypes for refining the OERu delivery system". I wonder whether the psychology course might be of interest to us?

Interesting post on why Google needs to focus it's tablet development by letting go  of Android.

"As we near the halfway point in 2012, perhaps it's time to look back at some of the major stories, trends and developments in social media since the start of the year. Check out this neat infographic that highlights some of the biggest stories in social media, broken down month-by-month starting in January and ending in May. The infographic was created by NowSourcing, a social media firm based in Louisville, Ky."

Learner created Mooc - interesting development

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.

Developing  a meme and using analogies to examine situations (pencils for technology)

"NPR reports that Harvard physicist and professor Eric Mazur has largely gotten rid of the lecture in his classes, after finding that in lecture-based classes, students tend to commit to memory formulae and heuristics, but fail to develop deep understanding of concepts. Mazur has tried - and seemingly succeeded - to cultivate deeper learning with a combination of small group peer-instruction and a tight feedback loop based on in-class polling about particular problems."

Hey guys. Happy new year, hope yaz had a nice break. The idea posted in this thread at /. no doubt isnt new to you all, neither the whole learning-styles thing, but the thread itself is actually not a bad read, lots of differing opinions, not all geeks.

List of Internet development from 62-09

Digital curation - overview by Lisa Oldham, development specialist at the National Library of NZ published in Computers in New Zealand schools.