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Lots of resources for students and staff. "LearnHigher - Excellence in Learning DevelopmentThe LearnHigher Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) is a partnership of 16 Universities, led by Liverpool Hope University, committed to improving student learning through providing excellent resources to support students' learning development, and through practice-led research to inform the effective use of those resources. Our resources below in 20 Learning Areas are freely available to all."

Some options using Google Refine or ScraperWiki to get data from online spreadsheets.

Excellent account by the excellent Audrey Watters on the really expensive, really disruptive conference populated by really rich and really cool people (well at least that's what they think when they look in the mirror).

"In this podcast, authors Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt share strategies for faculty training, development, and support, which is the subject of their forthcoming book, The Excellent Online Instructor."

the Year of the MOOC -excellent summary of MOOCish stuf for 2012 including a timeline of what happened through the year and some history of MOOCs 

Excellent take down of a new Turnitin resource which suggests everything is a plagiarism.

Excellent story of the journey to openness and the hugely positive difference it made to this leading photographers business and approach to life.

Excellent post on the blindness of the majority to discrimination on their part - often unintended but still existing because of their position of power.  It's something that we need to be conscious of since we all come from a position of being white, middle class, and majority male. It's not what we do in the office (but still needs to be applied there!) but how we think about the people we support and also how they might design for their classes.

"The infographic below, while simply designed to show students who are taking a MOOC for university level Spanish what the components of their class will be, does an excellent job showing a) just how online language learning can be (even if you're sitting at home alone) and b) how well language learning lends itself to online learning"

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.

Excellent post on fair use, its flaws and the danger of copyright accusation without trial.  This is an example of remix and appropriation of an image where the author could not afford to go to court and potentially lose (multiple times $150,000) and so settled out of court at $32500.

Excellent post on maximising the benefit from conferences.

Article on how the Finnish Equity not Excellence approach to education actually produces both and makes them a leading education nation.

Excellent piece on how piracy is not destroying the music/film industries. They're managing that perfectly fine by themselves!

Excellent piece on the changing digital landscape and what it means for content. "Look around the next time you're sat on a crowded city bus during commuting hours. Most people's headphones are now plugged into their phones. If by some chance they're not listening to music then they're reading the paper, a book, checking twitter, posing on facebook, writing an email, updating their diary or taking a photo and sticking a vintage filter on it while on their phone, or tablet, or e-reader. And they probably are listening to music while doing all the above."

Query the built in SQLite database in Zotero to return whatever you want.

Excellent article on a different approach to getting teachers engaged with elearning (and any pedagogical innovation). I think we've already bed this overall idea i.e. that we need teachers to participate in the design of their courses but this provides structure around it and also theoretical underpinning.

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

Excellent piece by Terry Anderson on the fall out from Thrun's elitist about turns and why one swallow a Spring does not make.

Excellent post by Michael Feldstein on course design issues to be considered in the light of MOOC developments.