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Nowadays, the digital version of print magazines and newspapers are becoming increasingly popular among publishers as they can save printing and postage costs as well as they are able to reach a whole new audience in the online world. The continuing interest of digital in the adaptation of digital replica editions of newspapers and magazines encourages web developers to create websites that are offering service to allow anyone to create their own digital magazine and newspaper. Some of these websites are very easy to use, simple and provide you with unlimited access to their resources for free.

A brilliant piece on appropriation, sampling and remixing throughout literary, cinematic and musical history and why our notions of  property and creation have been subverted and corrupted. Published in Harpers Magazine in 2007.

Hypothesis: Students judge quality of information based on position in Google search results. Intervention: Switch the order. Result: Students "used the (falsely) top-ranked pages".

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).

"Interpreting the CDW-G 2010 survey summary report, Campus Technology magazine concluded: 'Faculty members and campus IT staff aren't exactly in agreement on the necessity of some technologies in education.'"

NZ mag for schools using technology to support learning.

New curation tool

"Based upon the results of this study, for the advanced learner there is no significant difference in achievement whether you show the course navigation continually or not, and no significant difference in the amount of time to complete the course."

The classic 1945 article describing the Memex machine - a pre-cursor to hypertext linking and the web.

Open textbooks - the new wave after Moocs?

"This visualization attempts to organize a series of emerging technologies that are likely to influence education in the upcoming decades. Despite its inherently speculative nature, the driving trends behind the technologies can already be observed, meaning it's a matter of time before these scenarios start panning out in learning environments around the world."

Badges have quietly become mainstream.

Short article describing mlearning for the "Considered" user and the "Trigger" user.

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

Catalyst + Richard Wyles + Kineo = "The product, called Totara, is set to revolutionize the corporate LMS space as the first open-source learning management solution designed specifically for the corporate sector."

You've probably seen this but thought I'd save anyway!

Short article on an LMS (VLE) survey among eLearning Guild members.