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Understanding systems and processes and how to develop them.

Good presentation from Terry Anderson comparing / contrasting LMS, eportfolio & social networks.

.@OSQA has answers! (and #badges) http://t.co/qDVvN94h We could power a great #digitalliteracy self-helpdesk with this (via @sleslie)

"Technology stewards are people with enough experience of the workings of a community to understand its technology needs..."<--useful idea for digital literacy? Wider in scope than teaching/eLearning advocates. Hope to chat with Nancy in Hobart.

Like this concept. Like the connection between technology and community awareness.

Description of Man In Browser (MIB) attacks on banking website access.

12 academic essays on the eportfolio.

Imagine being in a college class where the instructor challenges students with questions and comments that ellicit active discussion by a majority of students.

Crisca the visiting academic from The University of Michigan pointed to their use of this system as an alternative to clickers

New journal to me but some interesting articles. Available on campus as Library is subscribed.

Quick video on what Google Goggles is (a visual recognition system for the Android which returns usable information)

George Siemens slides on changes in ICT and education.

Resources about using clickers (student response systems) at university.

Some info on the early warning system at Purdue for student success. Allows early intervention to catch failing students.

"The simple, open LMS from Instructure: Clean, intuitive interface; Comprehensive feature set; Modern technology."<--something to watch?

This resource is intended to distil lessons learned from various JISC innovation programmes into a "Good Practice Guide for Sustaining and Embedding Innovations". It is intended to support project steering groups and management teams in further and higher education in decision-making in this area and focuses on: Changing people and culture.Working with existing institutional structures to influence organisational change.Embedding or aligning with strategies, processes, systems, initiatives and services.Creating usable tools and resources (as part of project outputs) to meet stakeholder needs.Developing commercial and open approaches to sustaining and embedding innovation.

Like Votapedia, create audience polls that can be answered using SMS, Twitter, website etc.

"To gain the full educational benefits of the major new investments in corporate technologies supporting online teaching and learning it is argued that a strategic, systems based approach to academic professional development (APD) is required. Such an approach requires a clear view of the key areas of potential and enduring teaching and learning benefit which can be realised from online developments, including an understanding of the changing role of the academic teacher in higher education, the identification of the desired professional capacities to educate online, and the implementation of a number of coordinated initiatives to develop these professional capacities in order to engage constructively with the learning and technology opportunities. Based on previous work, we propose a 6three model of Academic Professional Capacities Development for effective APD of online teaching and learning. The model can help inform the actions of policy makers, executives and practitioners in ways that promote an authentic learning organisation."

These are DRAFT specifications that are being authored by a joint Open University (IET-OCI-VLE) working group. The document specifies improvements to the accessibility of the Moodle course management system for version 1.7.