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Tii buys up an automated lesson scoring / writing assessment tool.

Tony Bates' analysis of the post-pandemic educational ecosphere

Google page to support education around search.

"Mobile computing is transforming information technology and the student learning environment in higher education, yet educational institutions everywhere are just scratching the surface of the capabilities of mobile computing. This report is based on 369 student survey responses and 26 focus-group participants from the mobile-device-heavy student population in Education City, Qatar."

Clark's take on the WISE conference in Doha with world leading figures.  By Clarks account, most were living in a dark age of education (at least as far back as the 1990's) and only Gordon Brown had vision and solutions.

"Daphne Koller, one of the two founders of Coursera, describes some of the key features of the Coursera MOOCs, and the lessons she has learned to date about teaching and learning from these courses. The video is well worth watching, just for this."

Tony Bates critique of Coursera and Koller's take on Moocs.

Looks a good resource but looks like its school level. "The Chemistry Collective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, and concepts tests which can be incorporated into a variety of teaching approaches as pre-labs, alternatives to textbook homework, and in-class activities for individuals or teams. It is organized by a group of faculty and staff at Carnegie Mellon University for college and high school teachers who are interested in using, assessing, and/or creating engaging online activities for chemistry education"

"Read on to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom."

"Which of the following two assignments is more likely to engage high school students and inspire them to learn something? 1.  Write a paper about contemporary US war veterans. 2.  Create a multimedia resource of news feeds, archival video, student interviews with veterans, document how you accomplished it, and share your findings with the world."

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.

First of 2 blog posts on plagiarism vs iterative innovation in the gaming industry. Has some good discussion on the ethics and principles of re-using others work and the implications for creativity and innovation. Other post at http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AndySchatz/20110815/8198/Fishing_the_iOS_Clone_market_and_PatentCopyright.php

Article on the use of Twitter in education. Notes that most used by educators as part of a professional learning community and less for learing by students. Has +ve and -ve quotes.