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Crotchety article challenging advocates of open publishing, about the cost of storing, managing and distributing digital goods, Annoying tone, but some useful points to consider. "Even beyond just their power requirements, digital goods have particular traits that make them difficult to store effectively, challenging to distribute well, and much more effective when handled by paid professionals."

Potential economic models for publishing OERs, running open courses, and for open scholarship.

Account of a K12 school changing it's library into a hybrid digital / physical model

More than a decade into the 21st century and we are still keeping learners and teachers prisoners of the analog past by enforcing outdated mandates that ban and block them from using the digital resources of their world. 

critique of MOOcs and the direction MOOCs will take us in especially in higher education

"A total of 125 students taking a first year seminar course for pre-health professional majors participated in this study (70 in the experimental group and 55 in the control group). With the experimental group, Twitter was used for various types of academic and co-curricular discussions. Engagement was quantified by using a 19-item scale based on the National Survey of Student Engagement. To assess differences in engagement and grades, we used mixed effects analysis of variance (ANOVA) models, with class sections nested within treatment groups. We also conducted content analyses of samples of Twitter exchanges. The ANOVA results showed that the experimental group had a significantly greater increase in engagement than the control group, as well as higher semester grade point averages. Analyses of Twitter communications showed that students and faculty were both highly engaged in the learning process in ways that transcended traditional classroom activities."

A long post on why "Coursera is silly"

collaborative essay about MOOCs co-authored by multiple participants. Notes difference between and xMOOC and a cMOOC. 

#Twitter in a #HigherEd Classroom: An(other) Assessment. @AdelineKoh thinks overall, the pros far outweigh the cons (via @MarkSmithers) #yam

An interview with the people who ran (run) Mooc Mooc - a Mooc about Moocs.

Interesting. "We analyzed 700 million words, phrases, and topic instances collected from the Facebook messages of 75,000 volunteers, who also took standard personality tests, and found striking variations in language with personality, gender, and age."

Moocs for PD

Decrying the LMS. More in this months debate on whether we should have LMS's or not.

Special issue on Technology and Social Media in education

Chalmers, D. and O'Brien, M. Fraser, K. (ed) (2005) Education development units and the enhancement of university teaching. Education development and leadership in higher education: Developing an effective institutional strategy pp. 50-71. Routledge Falmer , Abingdon, UK

Open University - Centre for research in education and educational technology (CREET)