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Book Review "This book examines various views and perspectives on digitisation. As Simon Tanner, Director Digital Consultancy, King's College London says in the Foreword: "Digitisation has become a cultural, scholastic, economic and political imperative and raises many issues for our consideration." Furthermore, that the book: "...seeks to address and answer some of the big questions of digitisation"

ECAR (EDUCAUSE) report September 2014, titled The Current Ecosystem of Learning Managment Systems in Higher Education: Student, Faculty and IT Perspectives

ECAR (EDUCAUSE) report September 2014, titled The Current Ecosystem of Learning Managment Systems in Higher Education: Student, Faculty and IT Perspectives

Great interview with George Siemens about perspective after the MOOC tsunami has crashed on the beach.

New Mooc's - a perspective from an Australian professor

Blog from libertarian perspective on how to manage the internet - some interesting articles - summaries of recent books etc. Check out Adam Thierer posts.

Free book on future of the internet download under read now) Bunch of essays about impact of internet on society, how internet should be managed, privacy, intellectual property etc . Various perspectives but published by a libertarian think tank. Critical of Lessig for proposing controls on internet development. Some good reads (Dean, beware - lawyers). Also check out the video presentations - panel discussions - some fascinating stuff. This book is both a beginning and an end. Its publication marks the beginning of TechFreedom, a new non-profit think tank that will launch alongside this book in January 2011. Our mission is simple: to unleash the progress of technology that improves the human condition and expands individual capacity to choose.

Cory Doctorow on copyright and the effect on the Internet.

"This research report draws together findings from new data and more than 10 years of research on current practice and futures-thinking in education. It was commissioned by the Ministry of Education to support its programme of work to develop a vision of what future-oriented education could look like for New Zealand learners"

Presentation on multi access learning. Most interesting stuff is towards the end (from our perspective)

Interesting post after our discussion of the CEP and need to include different cultural perspectives on learning.

Useful account from an academic on the whys and why nots of open text books.

"DEHub and ODLAA will host the Education 2011-2021: Global challenges and perspectives of blended and distance learning Summit at the Dockside Venue, Darling Harbour, Sydney, from 15-18 February, 2011"

"'Learning Perspectives:2010' is an open-source eBook by The MASIE Center and Learning 2010."

How transparent should you be on the web - a stimulating perspective - quote in keynote from Chris Wilson at Northern Voice 2011

Visualise a musical mash-up. Rendered in html5 & css3. See also background at http://themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2011/05/12/

"This paper describes the implementation of a quantitative cost effectiveness analyzer for Web-supported academic instruction that was developed in Tel Aviv University during a long term study. The paper presents the cost effectiveness analysis of Tel Aviv University campus. Cost and benefit of 3,453 courses were analyzed, exemplifying campus-wide analysis. These courses represent large-scale Web-supported academic instruction processes throughout the campus. The findings were described, referring to students, instructors and university from both the economical and educational perspectives. The cost effectiveness values resulting from the calculations were summarized in four "coins" (efficiency coins=$; quality coins; affective coins; and knowledge management coins) for each of the three actors (students, instructors and university). In order to examine the distribution of those values throughout the campus assessment scales were created on the basis of descriptive statistics. The described analyzer can be implemented in other institutions very easily and almost automatically. This enables us to quantify the costs and benefits of Web-supported instruction on both the single-course and the campus-wide levels. "

Short post about a preso on the state of the LMS with links to preso slides and archive. Great timeline graphic on the development of various LMSs including the gobbling BB behemoth.

Reviews of Moodle plugins from a usability perspective - Is it simple to install?Is there documentation for it?Does it do what it promises?Is it easy for the teacher/admin to use?Is it easy for the learner/student to use?

"The same top nine characteristics are common between online and face-to-face students, with only the order for the two bolded characteristics changing. Responsiveness is more highly valued online, moving five positions."