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Brand new journal with some elearning stuff. Open access too.

The File Information Tool Set (FITS) identifies, validates, and extracts technical metadata for various file formats. It wraps several third-party open source tools, normalizes and consolidates their output, and reports any errors.

These are DRAFT specifications that are being authored by a joint Open University (IET-OCI-VLE) working group. The document specifies improvements to the accessibility of the Moodle course management system for version 1.7.

This wiki is set up to catalog university-based open educational resources projects. Currently we are focusing only English-speaking OER projects.

Summary: Twitter is undoubtedly one of the most recent and successful examples of social networking to appear on the World Wide Web. Twitter provides an API so Web developers can enable their users to access the various features that the Twitter site provides. In this article, learn the basics of using the Twitter REST API.

Proposal for transmitting data using tuples via Twitter and then exposing via other apps, widgets, etc. Interesting.

Facilitating Online is a course intended for training educators as online facilitators of fully online and mixed mode courses. The Centre for Educational Technology (CET) produced a Course Leader's Guide as an Open Educational Resource to assist educators and trainers who wish to implement a course on online facilitation within their institution or across several institutions. The guide contains the course model, week-by-week learning activities, general guidance to the course leader on how to implement and customise the course and specific guidelines on each learning activity.

A long list of eduvcation and technology journals. Near the bottom are some open access journals.

New ning like site. Open source so allows customisation, own hosting, own domain, no ads and allows embeds of a lot of things.

Site from Nature with open resources on science (currently focussed on genetics).

What follows is a draft of a document that I prepared that outlines a proposed architecture for Learning Management Systems. Because of it's length, I have separated it into four posts, Executive Summary, The Emerging Meme, LMS in the Enterprise Architecture, and Key Online Application Integration.

Includes a good video on the role of twitter as a search engine and a live stream of happenings.

3 Case studies on the value of Open Educational Resources citing MIT, Yale and Stanford as sites students are using to support their learning elsewhere.

This weeks new Google tool! Take a spreadsheet (Google or Excel) and apply visualisations and pivots without needing to know much about what you are doing. Showed me the Gallery when I first opened - need to click 'New Table' to access your own data.

Google OS

Calendar, email, docs OS wonder what will come next

Some fantastic films available here as well as ebooks and lists of other sites.

Open shared local networks in a box. Useful for collaboration and when you don't need the internet getting in the way.

I had a look and think we could do. Might need Rob to do some soldering.

Here's our justification, it turns out "Darts built the device, originally called Freedrop, as an easy way to share files with his students in class. "I was looking for a device that would allow users in the same physical space to easily share files,' he says. It was a hit, but he soon found that his students had other sharing plans. 'Students started sharing non-class related materials, their favorite albums and so on.'"

This week the OCW Consortium is holding its annual meeting, celebrating 10 years of opencourseware. Are universities about credentials or research? Are they a repository of knowledge? It's important, O'Reilly argued, if you want to be innovative "to think about what job you do for your customers (for your students) and not just think about how you do that job today but why you do it."