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"LectureTools is not lecture capture. It is a tool designed to help student engagement during your lecture. It offers a variety of ways for profs to build in interactive elements into the lecture..."

"... overseas students are offered help to cheat their way to UoWales-validated degrees and visas."

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"Answering 10 questions will help guide faculty in adopting digital technology for the classroom"

Slides from the National Library on find, share and reuse of digital resources.

Site helping teens with disability become their own advocates for learning and what they might need to deal with in the transition to HE.

Help files with pics on how to use Audacity

The DevelopMe site is designed to help students make the most of being at Uni.

"Low-cost online courses could help higher education from becoming the next economic bubble that bursts..."

"Adding audio instructions or commentary helps you meet the needs of auditory learners, and often adds interest to the content. Schiefelbein said she often creates an audio recording of housekeeping tasks, such as deadline reminders, as well as to review what was covered the previous session. She also uses the Wimba Voice Board to create an audio-based discussion board which students use to discuss topics and reply to posts."

"Providing a complete installation of Moodle on a USB stick can help to increase confidence and enables users to try things out for themselves without anyone knowing what they're attempting to do!"

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"Writing notes with a pen and paper helps you remember more, whereas typing gives you greater quantity of notes."

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Education, and in particular higher education, has seen rapid change as learning institutions have had to adapt to the opportunities provided by the Internet to move more of their teaching online1 and to become more flexible in how they operate. It might be tempting to think that such a period of change would lead to a time of consolidation and agreement about approaches and models of operation that suit the 21st century. New technologies continue to appear,2 however, and the changes in attitude indicated by the integration of online activities and social approaches within our lives are accelerating rather than slowing down. How should institutions react to these changes? One part of the answer seems to be to embrace some of the philosophy of the Internet3 and reevaluate how to approach the relationship between those providing education and those seeking to learn. Routes to self-improvement that have no financial links between those providing resources and those using them are becoming more common,4 and the motivation for engaging with formal education as a way to gain recognition of learning is starting to seem less clear.5 What is becoming clear across all business sectors is that maintaining a closed approach leads to missing out on ways to connect with people and locks organizations into less innovative approaches.6 Higher education needs to prepare itself to exist in a more open future, either by accepting that current modes of operation will increasingly provide only one version of education or by embracing openness and the implications for change entailed. In this article we look at what happens when a more open approach to learning is adopted at an institutional level. There has been a gradual increase in universities opening up the content that they provide to their learners. Drawing on the model of open-source software, where explicit permission to freely use and modify code has developed a software industry that rivals commercial approaches, a proposed

I think that this is useful to help inform senior leadership. We might 'know' or agree with a lot of this stuff but getting engagement at higher levels may well be helped by Tony's well laid out post.

Freedom of speech and responsibility. How positive moderation can allow positive voices to flourish and silence trolls.

Strategies for helping learning

Attempt to solve the opposite problem - the anti-problem - to help you see how best to proceed with your real problem.