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Interesting post about collaboration in and across school departments. Some of the links might be useful.

Sounds like Blackboard are shifting their game in terms of user experience. Interesting.

Post by Tony Bates on Moocs with an interesting discussion in the comments from Harasim and Downes.

Deakin trying out a MOOC with some interesting assessment ideas - mainly assessed via peer review and awarding of badges, formal credit on payment of $495 fee involves an interview with the student as well as learning artefacts. 

Interesting post after our discussion of the CEP and need to include different cultural perspectives on learning.

Interesting article looking at the ownership of ideas. It made me think of Connectivism - ideas and knowledge exist in the network, not in the individual. If we recognised this would the problem discussed disappear?

Interesting. Embed your copyright into your artefacts using blockchains (the technology from Bitcoin).

Interesting post and response from Martin regarding the current risk profile for Moodle / MoodleHQ

Some interesting recordings here. "Changing traditional notions of education"

Post on Open Library starting to loan in copyright digital books. Very interesting.

Interesting site although it didn't find any of the images I tried with it!

Interesting post on patents stifling innovation. 

New journal to me but some interesting articles. Available on campus as Library is subscribed.

Interesting tool for group communications.

Caroline Haythornthwaite, Richard Andrews, Michelle M. Kazmer, Bertram C. Bruce, Rae-Anne Montague, Christina Preston. 2007. - Interesting article and I we should look at some of these carefully.  Also some other good stuff in the journal.

This article is worth reading. An interesting thought piece (two actually) on the move away from the open web to closed systems running across the internet that control the devices we use, the delivery mechanisms and the content we consume (read Apple).

An interesting add-on for Google Apps that allows some overview and admin to be done for your students.

UBC centre for teaching, learning and technology organisational chart - positioned under the Provost Academic with senior advisory board - interesting.

A new tool - Curatr - which aims to develop game based social learning. Sounds interesting!

This study is an exploratory case study aimed at analysing one academic's teaching in terms of conceptions of teaching and its effect on student involvement or engagement. The research has been done by drawing on Gonzalez' dimensions of online teaching and data generated by the LMS and data analytics in general. There is growing interest in the use of academic analytics. However, most of the reported work is being done at the level of institutions/groupings of courses. Improving teaching can only be done through changing the conceptions of teaching/learning held by the academics. Can individual teaching staff, reflecting on their courses, learn anything important from examining their courses through analytics? How can this be done effectively? What do they find? This study uses an academic's approach to teaching + use as an indicator of involvement, therefore, an improvement of teaching.