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Welcome to this online community for people interested in Educating the Net Generation: Implications for Learning and Teaching in Australian Universities, a project funded by the Australian Learning & Teaching Council, 2006-2009.

"The new catch phrase in education is "collaborative learning." Yet, despite substantial research suggesting the benefits of adopting collaborative learning, educators and students often abandon collaboration because of the overwhelming resistance to collaboration. Resistance can be overcome by focusing on the oft-ignored rapport-building phase in the implementation of collaborative learning techniques in educational settings. "

Spanish group issue a manifesto for copyright and internet access.

Wiki to support the use of technology to create views of a community thought.

Report on research on Twitter use in student class groups.

The KAREN Services Working Group is opening their May meeting up to all KAREN members to get your input on collaboration and shared infrastructure services over KAREN.

This resource is intended to distil lessons learned from various JISC innovation programmes into a "Good Practice Guide for Sustaining and Embedding Innovations". It is intended to support project steering groups and management teams in further and higher education in decision-making in this area and focuses on: Changing people and culture.Working with existing institutional structures to influence organisational change.Embedding or aligning with strategies, processes, systems, initiatives and services.Creating usable tools and resources (as part of project outputs) to meet stakeholder needs.Developing commercial and open approaches to sustaining and embedding innovation.

Open course on Open Badges (Mozilla) and assessment

european site with info and resources on benchmarking.

These are DRAFT specifications that are being authored by a joint Open University (IET-OCI-VLE) working group. The document specifies improvements to the accessibility of the Moodle course management system for version 1.7.

New ning like site. Open source so allows customisation, own hosting, own domain, no ads and allows embeds of a lot of things.

Using Flickr to support chemistry teaching at Uni Melbourne

A system to allow staff to easily select the applications they want to use in their courses, manage users and give access to students and externals.