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"But I think there are two important things that online universities bring to the table: (1) Broadening access to higher education, and (2) Leveraging technology to explore new approaches to learning."

Looking at the Occupy Wall Street protests through the eyes of a developer. An interesting examination of the components of a protest or social movement.

Brian Lamb with another insightful and inciting post on the poverty of critical thinking in Higher Education regarding the future of that self same education. If they don't pull their fingers out their fundaments we are all doomed is the message. And by the way, the 'they' is us.

The PD model I think we should steal, mix in badges and launch for  digital literacy week.

Great looking site built by 1st years. "AllAboutLinguistics.com was created by first-year linguistics students at the University of Sheffield, supported by staff in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics. The website formed part of the students assessment, after they completed a course called Introduction to Linguistics, and it aims to share the knowledge they gained from this module with anyone outside the University who is interested in language and its study - especially A-Level students thinking of going on to study linguistics at University. We asked students to build the site because as beginners in linguistics themselves, they were in a good position to help explain the discipline to you."

"This research report draws together findings from new data and more than 10 years of research on current practice and futures-thinking in education. It was commissioned by the Ministry of Education to support its programme of work to develop a vision of what future-oriented education could look like for New Zealand learners"

#Twitter in a #HigherEd Classroom: An(other) Assessment. @AdelineKoh thinks overall, the pros far outweigh the cons (via @MarkSmithers) #yam

How do we move outside our usual habits to allow new possibilities into our thinking? Being artfully disruptive to push the border between real and unreal until they encompass more.

Excellent article on a different approach to getting teachers engaged with elearning (and any pedagogical innovation). I think we've already bed this overall idea i.e. that we need teachers to participate in the design of their courses but this provides structure around it and also theoretical underpinning.

Get a set of MOOCs for 1st yr MBA at Wharton. Pity they don't think enough of them to allow use as prior learning!

Some useful points gathered in one place about selling services to staff. I think that we know all of these but handy to have in one place.

Donald Clark on why he thinks ASU have got the right approach to growing research and both access to and quality of teaching.

Interesting article looking at the ownership of ideas. It made me think of Connectivism - ideas and knowledge exist in the network, not in the individual. If we recognised this would the problem discussed disappear?

A great selection of chart and diagram visuals. Should be great for someone who needs to map their current project!

Short post arguing that educating 'young people' in the use of technology is more than teaching them the mechanics of a medium. Can't identify what is being argued in it's place but I think that we need to consider talking about communication and then what tool fits the contextual needs rather than how to edit a wiki, for instance.

"Writing the future: genres, professions and texts" * moving towards learning outcomes: curriculum design, teaching methodology, materials, feedback & dialogue * evaluating & advancing approaches to teaching writing * the path from teaching or researching to presenting and publishing * the creative writing continuum * the critical analysis/critical thinking continuum"

thought you'z might be interested in this..

Excellent (because I agree with it!) article on lecture recording and the muddled thinking around them.

"I have a Kindle 3 (wifi only). Here's what I think about it after two weeks."

"But how do we get students to realize what they themselves value? How do we get students to think about their blogging as something other than work for a grade?"

"A faculty member's real value is in their interaction with students... Faculty should focus on this aspect of their teaching and automate as much as possible the simple content delivery part."