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"Create beautiful text based pages in seconds and share them with the world" via Richard Elliott.

"This report analyses tertiary sector e-learning provision at a system, sub-sector and course level from 2004 to 2008. The sub-sectors focused on in the report are universities and polytechnics and the course levels bachelors degrees and certificates (Levels 1-4). Participation in e-learning course at these levels over the same time period is analysed by focusing on the following learner groups: 18-19 year olds, the 40+ age group, Māori, Pasifika and European and females and males Author: Peter Guiney, Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis team (Ministry of Education) Date Published: May 2011"

"Academic journals generally get their articles for nothing and may pay little to editors and peer reviewers. They sell to the very universities that provide that cheap labour." Nice business model!

"'The creation of video and the publishing of video is getting to the point where it's almost as easy as creating a written assignment,' says Kyle D. Bowen, Purdue University's director of informatics."s recent experience.

Zeega is an open-source HTML5 platform for creating interactive documentaries and inventing new forms of storytelling. Zeega will make it easy to collaboratively produce, curate and publish participatory multimedia projects online, on mobile devices and in physical spaces. Zeega is in early alpha. Sign up t

Report in the business value of using immersive technologies for work. 40% saw a positive economic impact. Used mainly for connecting users at a distance.

business value of using immersive technologies for work

Adding a Google presentation to Moodle

"IRRODL (the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning) has just published a very special issue focused on connectivism."

"We are the world's largest publisher of free and open college textbooks. With our ever-expanding catalog of top quality books by expert authors, now is your chance to be a hero and help your students save thousands of dollars. Get started today and join the textbook affordability movement."

Tony Bates on an innovation article published in Inside Higher Education.

Interesting - people learn in MOOCS and at least as well as face to face classes. The paper is published in IRRODL so will be worth looking at in detail.

Article on the difficulty of getting any change out of copyright 'holders' (not artists but record labels, etc) 

Article on why open access is important. Has a long exploration of the for & against arguments in the comments.

Interesting authoring tool. Anyone want to write a book and try it out? :) Noted as a possible alternative to iAuthor

"Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes. Create books on your own or with others via an easy-to-use web interface. Build a community around your content with social tools and use the reach of mobile, tablet and ebook technology to engage new audiences."

Interesting new? journal on TEL - this issue seems to focus on widgets and PLEs / Web 2.0

Harvard Library cannot afford to subscribe to scholarly journals which have increased in cost to $3.75m, They recommend staff use open access journals.