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Discussing how universities want to control knowledge rather than letting it flow freely.

"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?"

Another great post on what went well when transitioning to Google Apps.

Great post on moving to Google Apps for Education and some of the things they would do differently in retrospect.

"Being connected changes learning. When those connections are global, the experience of knowledge development is dramatically altered as well. Over the past four years, a growing number of educators have started experimenting with the teaching and learning process in order to answer critical questions: "How does learning change when formal boundaries are reduced? What is the future of learning? What role with educators play in this future? What types of institutions does society need to respond to hyper-growth of knowledge and rapid dissemination of information? How do the roles of learners and educators change when knowledge is ubiquitous? ... (The result is) a MOOC with each week being facilitated by an innovative thinker, researcher, and scholar. Over 30 of them. From 11 different countries."

Good slides on using g-docs 1/2 way down page.

"Recently the Ministry MLE roadshow visited Tauranga and I had some calls from local teachers who attended asking about the hidden cost of running Moodle in a school as it was indicated that running Moodle could be more expensive than one of the commercial vendors (eg Knowledgenet or Ultranet). I decided to sit down and work out ..."

via Downes: Brian Lamb's presentation is smooth, polished and informed. Culture, he says, is something that historically we have participated in by creating and not merely consuming. And we are returning to those days, where we can create content for ourselves that we used to pay for and merely consume. Indeed, for any content company, placing a barrier - such as price - between the content and readers is a fatal mistake. Culture is something that is ours - it's not simply the creation of the best, it's an act that is a part of being there (like the million people who have photographed Barack Obama). And when each person records his or her own presence, we can create something larger than life, something real. Knowing that you are making a significant contribution to public discourse is motivation to create and contribute. There's this and a lot more in this presentation.

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List showing ups and downs in Jane Hart's Top 100 elearning tools. Some interesting entries and the ones on the 'Not in list anymore' list are the ones you probably didn't go for anyway!

Transcript of talk in Valencia about what comes after the mooc and why the individual is the centre of their own universe.

List of tools with links. Most not directly relevant where we already have options eg via Moodle. If we have extended online teaching then some of these will be useful for those on the front of the adoption curve.

Short post from Howard Jarche reminding us that we need to get better at managing our knowledge in the knowledge economy.