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"Evidence shows that engaged students perform better academically than disinterested students. Measurement of engagement with education is difficult and imprecise, especially in large student cohorts. Traditional measurements such as summary statistics derived from assessment are crude secondary measures of engagement at best and do not provide much support for educators to work with students and curate engagement during teaching periods. We have used academic-related student contributions to a public social network as a proxy for engagement. Statistical summaries and novel data visualisation tools provide subtle and powerful insights into online student peer networks. Analysis of data collected shows that network visualisation can be an important curation tool for educators interested in cultivating student engagement."

Aimed at secondary school, there looks to be some good stuff here that we can use or repurpose.

Overview We have devised an interactive curriculum aimed to support teachers of secondary students (approximately ages 13-17). The curriculum helps educate students on topics like: YouTube's policies How to report content on YouTube How to protect their privacy online How to be responsible YouTube community members How to be responsible digital citizens We hope that students and educators gain useful skills and a holistic understanding about responsible digital citizenship, not only on YouTube, but in all online activity.

Aimed at teachers in secondary (and primary maybe)

"Make #innovation in teaching & learning a strategic goal of the organization" @DrTonyBates adds to @JoshMKim's 5 ideas http://t.co/wXwYHl6C

"...if we properly trained instructors in post-secondary education, would we still need instructional designers?"

Google Doc templates for science and math teaching.  Aimed at secondary school, there may be examples that can be reworked for higher levels or used with bridging programmes.

"The report is based on questionnaires and interviews conducted by BCcampus with a cross section of institutional stakeholders (instructors, teaching and learning centres and IT administrators) at 9 BC post-secondary institutions (25 were contacted) in the Fall of 2010. The paper highlights some of the concerns and benefits post-sec institutions in BC are grappling with when considering using cloud-based applications and services (specifically those hosted in the US), and illustrates some examples of how BC post-sec's have addressed these issues within their institutions."

A resource for post secondary educators.

A Ministry of Education resource described as "Digistore is a storehouse of digital content to support learning across the curriculum, from early childhood through to senior secondary." Unfortunately it seems that you have to create an account to log-in and then resources are only available to NZ educators. Doesn't seem to sit well with the Open Govt, Open Content being espoused elsewhere in the NZ govt.

Article about some work by Turnitin on sources used by plagiarised submissions.  It says 'plagiarised' but in the text says 'matched sources'. The Tii report is available on a link to check out details more fully.

Hey all, not really a Tertiary thing but thought you might be interested... "Rotorua has embarked on a bold plan to equip all of its pupils with personal learning devices - connecting all of them to the internet and creating a New Zealand-first "e-learning community".

Great post on using Google Apps to create a portfolio environment for a School District from primary, through secondary to life.

A new site developed by e-cast which seems to be setting itself as a forum for technology (and education?) debates.