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Looks quite neat. * Let your audience decide Get to know your audience by letting them decide which questions, suggestions or ideas interest them most. * Everyone's voice is heard The voting box at the top of page focuses attention on submissions recently added and on the rise, making it simple and easy to participate. * Be creative Include people in your preparation for lectures, interviews and hard decisions or work together to organize feature requests and brainstorm new ideas.

Using the Kaltura video extension for Moodle, teachers can upload and manage rich-media content, such as full lectures in an online course; students can then post video comments, ask questions and create a face-to-face discussion recorded directly from their webcam or other sources.

Very short report on the change of the role of unis in providing content based courses. Thin, but notes OU has 360,000 iTunesU downloads per week and that the VC of the OU says that the value of an institution would not be its course content but how it motivated and supported students.

Guide including backchannels, lectures, micro-learning ...

Useful for introductory eLearning workshop (via Ako Aotearoa newsletter)

Videos on teaching online by practitioners. Part of an ALTC project.

Short interviews with experienced online lecturers on a range of topics related to teaching online

"This paper will review the changes taking place in learning and teaching, explore the reluctance to embrace more wholesale change to the curriculum, and discuss the implications for institutions in the face of ongoing change."

A free online course on Python - written by a UMich professor and released as CC remix. Includes slides and lecture audio and or video from last time he taught this course on campus.

"First year economics students at Waikato University now have a better understanding of their subject, thanks to new media. Lecturer Michael Cameron gave students the option of making a video and uploading it to YouTube rather than doing a written assignment. The subject was 'Why should you study economics?'"

Eric Mazur has swapped the nature of teaching and non-contact time and released it as a software. "The basic idea is that the bulk of information consumption should be done outside the classroom and in-class time should be spent doing guided, measured, optimized peer-to-peer discussion in order to maximize retention of knowledge"

 DeFrosting Professional Development: Reconceptualising Teaching using Social Learning Technologies Thomas Cochrane, Vickel NarayanIn this paper we discuss the impact of redesigning a lecturer professional development course with the aim of embedding a community of practice model supported by the use of mobile web 2.0 technologies.

Recording of sessions Playback of recordings in HTML 5 Improved Audio (lower latency) Integration with Matterhorn (open source lecture capture management)

Otago University policies and guidelines around lecture capture and copyright.

Resources on clickers - student response systems.

A development framework for building iPhone (or mobile?) apps for education. This is a review which notes it is a low barrier to entry, is simple (this is a plus and minus point) and mentions adding RSS, lectures, images, links, event lists and YouTube to your schools app.

Seems like this is a paid for app rather than something we build ourselves. They build and then we can use their CMS to add / change content. Aimed at marketing so maybe we should pass it to them.

Dan Cohen (Mr Zotero) talks open access and scholarly values. Nice lecture capture interface too!

"The days of jamming 500 students into lecture halls supervised by graduate students and charging them several hundred dollars per credit hour for the 'privilege' of learning in this fashion may be numbered."

Blending physical & virtual spaces Queensland University of Technology is currently developing OWL, a new web-based student response system, which blends the physical space with a virtual learning environment to create a live collaborative experience. Main Features: * Post comments* Reply to comments* "Like" comments* Poll students* Review archived sessions