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"After piloting a digital textbook rental program in fall 2010, the California State University system learned a few lessons about how the e-books worked for students."

The University of Oregon is the latest to pilot a WPMU-powered blogging community. Convenient links to other similar North American examples. Something for WCeL to pilot?

"The student digital experience tracker, a pilot scheme to provide first-hand insight into learners' expectations and views on technology in an education setting, showed that 72% of HE and 70% of FE and skills learners believe that when technology is used effectively by teaching staff it enhances their learning experience - giving credence to the argument that practitioners need to develop their own digital skills to deliver learning and teaching."

A technical landscaping pilot on Open Access publishing of scholarly monographs to multiple devices - ebook, tablet, mobile.

Can Yammer become the "smartest person on campus"? The experiments in #3 are  our innovation pilots.

Review of the research report into halted Udacity / SJSU moocs.

"The Leap Ahead LLN ePortfolio and eSystems pilot report carried out by the Centre for ePortfolio Development is now complete. The project ran trials of over 1000 ePortfolio licences in schools, FE, HE and employees from 2007 to 2009. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/eportfolio/leapahead/ePFLLN.shtml  The following are available now:* Executive SummaryMain points from the full ePortfolio and eSystems report* Five PilotsePortfolios compared, evidence-based, postgraduate PDP, different sectors and levels, raising employees' aspirations* XCRI ReportThe LLN XCRI implementations in Notts & Derbys The full report will be available early July."

"...a pilot program undertaken by the Wikimedia Foundation that, in conjunction with a number of universities, is making verifying and updating Wikipedia pages part of college coursework."

Some notes about Jisc's OER pilot programme.

Princeton University study: Kindles reduces need for printed paper but classroom experience affected. 

"Among the things the two instructors hoped to address with an initial pilot were poor attendance of in-class films and lack of attention to the films among those who did attend."

"This pilot study sought to improve the vocational learning and literacy development of learners through the making of their own digital stories. The findings were that digital story telling supports vocational learning and literacy development, reflective conversations encourage deep learning, and collaboration fosters empathy and transformative learning."

Review of Kindle DX where students in a pilot program slated the Kindle for learning.

Peer to peer assessment and accreditation through badges. Very interesting concept and certainly in the Open realm.

Looks like some of this could be good for Noeline Wright's pilot paper