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Just in time, personalised feedback - using Twitter

Manage form selections by applying limits to number of times an option can be selected.

Digital capability for TEL Overarching principles: 1 start with pedagogy every time 2 recognise that context is key 3 create a digital capability threshold for institutions 4 use communities of practice and peer support to share good practice 5 introduce a robust and owned change management strategy 6 develop a compelling evidence-informed rationale 7 ensure encouragement for innovation and managed risk-taking.

Fear and loathing - this time regarding students accessing the Internet at home on Chromebooks.

Practical tips to maintain teaching, learning and business operations during circumstances where staff or learners are unable to physically spend time on campus.

Gilberto Gil's copyleft philosophy.

Interesting - A US academic says that Coursera should run a MOOC on how its own business model could ruin education!

Seb Schmoller with short piece on moocs and why they are worth attention.

Report on plagiarism in NZ unis. Suggests to me big differences in identifying and reporting.

"How about this infographic from Turnitin to start the week? From a survey of nearly 900 educators (Plagiarism Today) Turnitin are trying to "understand what kinds of plagiarism were the most common in academia and, equally importantly, which were viewed as being the most problematic"."

"A recent nationwide survey by JogNog.com Reveals that 93% of teachers would assign online games in class if the subject matter matched their curriculum."

New preso tool

"One explanation is that students who plagiarized did not have high confidence that the system would detect the plagiarism in their writing," he says. "A second explanation is that the students who plagiarized were, for lack of a better word, desperate." n=bugger all (via @Dakvid)

By this autumn, every university in England will have published a new set of information about every undergraduate course on offer. These Key Information Sets will include data on areas such as contact hours, graduate salaries and student satisfaction. But with little fanfare, one institution has already put itself ahead of the game by displaying information about its graduates in a way that could set a benchmark for the sector. The University of Oxford has created an online tool for comparing data about its graduates' careers and salaries. Tucked away on its main careers website and organised into a set of user-friendly tables, it allows immediate comparisons of the salary and employment status of its alumni from 2008-09 and 2009-10 - undergraduate and postgraduate - sorted by subject area, individual course and even constituent college.