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Creative Commons materials search engine - modified from a Korean engine and searches Flickr, Jamendo and Youtube for sounds, videos and docs licenced under a CC licence

Search engine for educational video lectures & talks from a variety of sources.

Write Reports in Science & Engineering. A guide for HE students, desined at Sydney and NSW Unis.

New search engine for people. Seems fairly accurate - well searching for me anyway!

"The internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work "open access": digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. In this talk, Peter Suber - Director of the Harvard Open Access Project - shares insights from his new concise introduction to open access - what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. This event includes questions and responses from Stuart Shieber (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences), Robert Darnton (Harvard University Library), June Casey (Harvard Law School Library), David Weinberger (Berkman Center / Harvard Library Innovation Lab) and more."

I wonder if we could use the Google API or script engine to set up something similar?

Wishees is designed primarily to help school and university students and their tutors improve writing in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

Interesting search engine that searches in 2 languages side by side. Useful for language learners.

How to disengage students before they are even engaged - and this is just in the library. Students taught arcane searching skills that don't even work in the library search engine.

Google say they have dealt with this. The fail point is when someone follows the link from the fake email, the social engineering aspect.

"Yovisto is a video search engine specialized on educational video content". Recommended by Prof Zinke.

Screen Australia's Digital Resource Finder is a quick, convenient and easy-to-use search engine for teachers and educators. It features FREE FOR EDUCATION downloadable video clips from Screen Australia's remarkable archive-one of the nation's largest and most historically significant collections. Clips are matched with print-friendly two-page resource sheets that include background information and engaging student research and classroom activities written by leading teachers.

Video by Google on how their search engine works. Simple but useful.

Description of setting up a Google custom search engine than can have its source sites dynamically updated via xml.

The OU's assessment engine. A lot of useful question options. Is open source.

"The conference is part of the Re-engineering Assessment Practices (REAP) project, a £1m initiative funded by the Scottish Funding Council under its e-Learning Transformation initiative. REAP is a collaboration across the University of Strathclyde, University of Glasgow and Glasgow Caledonian University. REAP is evaluating the impact of new assessment practices supported by technology at course, faculty and institutional level.Conference themes: Focusing on assessment FOR learning in tertiary education the conference has three themes to be addressed through keynotes, case studies and structured discussions.Assessment and the first year experienceGreat designs for assessmentInstitutional strategies (designs) for assessment"

"Students are multitaskers who move through websites rapidly, often missing the item they come to find. They're enraptured by social media but reserve it for private conversations and thus visit company sites from search engines."

"That "Eureka" moment when a student thunders over an educational hurdle opening up a new realm of learning, is the holy grail for educators. The technical term is a "threshold concept", and they're being discovered in every discipline from economics to engineering, design and English grammar."

Alpha build of envy built with Google App Engine. Staff & students get equal access rights except where absolutely neccessary.