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Analytics and Recommendations block uses charts and tables which are colour coded so students can quickly see they participation. Students can see single analytics about their participation in the course. Teachers can see single, comparative analytics and global analytics (all students together) too. Morover, the block shows recommendations for students about what activities they should work to improve their final grade. It shows too a estimate final grade according with a reference course.

"This 31-page report analyzes the results of a recent Gartner research study performed between August and October of 2011. The study focused on enterprise mobility and was designed to generate qualitative data using in-depth conversations and qualitative analysis. Trends, observations, and recommendations are the core of this research. The report includes recommendations that are appropriate to colleges and universities today."

Education analytics news article about Sherpa

Recommendations to improve search experience - an OU project using library logs - eg "Other students on your course are also searching for ..."  At an early stage but worth watching.

"This page features innovative uses of online collaboration tools (OCTs) for teaching and course management. You can browse the full list or use the search criteria to find the examples most relevant to you. Click on any title for a full description or use the Links to watch short videos of faculty describing their teaching strategies and see examples. For a summary of practical recommendations for effectively implementing OCTs in one's teaching, see CRLT's Occasional Paper No. 31: Teaching in the Cloud: Leveraging Online Collaboration Tools to Enhance Student Engagement."

"If you want to find out why people might become engaged in OER and Open educational practices (OEP) then you might like to look at the Motivations section. If you are interested in looking at the range of models and approaches adopted for OER Release then the Models page may be useful for you. If you want to know about the impact of the HEFCE funding then we have an Impact section. We have drawn together some critical factors to support OEP for those that want some tips on how to go about this themselves. We have a section that highlights tensions and challenges around OEP and the OER journeys section provides an interesting look at the wider context and how the HEFCE-funded initiatives fit into that. We also offer recommendations. If you contributed to our surveys, polls and interviews then we have a series of supplementary appendices and you can look at out methodology and evidence pages - all available from the main report page http://bit.ly/HEFCEoerReview. We have also produced a summary briefing paper."

Report by think tank on the future of HE in UK. Recommends credit from Moocs, all academics to have training in teaching & assessment, and a teacher track for academics.

Recommendations for a small US university on how to respond to the Mooc phenomenon.

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

The Department of Education's (ED) Office of Educational Technology today released a draft issue brief - Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics - representing the results of a months-long discourse among 8 academic and 15 industrial data mining and learning analytics experts conducted by SRI International. The brief, inspired by ED's 2010 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP), articulates the challenges and opportunities of Big Data in improving student outcomes and overall productivity of K-2 education systems. It focuses on three key research areas - educational data mining, learning analytics, and visual data analytics - and offers a set of corresponding recommendations, categorized by various stakeholders. ED is now seeking public comment on the draft.

News article about Sherpa - course recommendation software

News Article about Sherpa - course recommendation software.

"Yovisto is a video search engine specialized on educational video content". Recommended by Prof Zinke.

The W3C recommendations for improving user experience of the Web on mobile devices. They have been abstracted to allow them to be device and language independent.

THE ACADEMICPUB APPLICATION GIVES EDUCATORS THE ABILITY TO CREATE THEIR OWN CUSTOM BOOKS - IN PRINT AND E-BOOK FORMAT. Our application provides real-time copyright clearance and an ever-expanding content library along with the ability to add your own materials and articles from the web. And - peer recommendations from colleagues in your discipline can present new possibilities to enrich your courses.

Learning design should define the design of the learning platform. Michael Feldstein considers what it is we are really trying to do with education. Some of it covers trust and recommendation.

"This Ministry of Education report describes a project undertaken to explore what digital information literacy is and how individuals can obtain it. Digital information literacy takes dedicated time, intensive support and the opportunity to experiment with a range of information and communication technologies."

"This report explores what digital information literacy is and how it could be most effectively applied in tertiary education., and identifies methods to develop adults' digital skills and capabilities, and to understand how these contribute to lifelong learning."

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List showing ups and downs in Jane Hart's Top 100 elearning tools. Some interesting entries and the ones on the 'Not in list anymore' list are the ones you probably didn't go for anyway!