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Tony Bates talks about problems that unis have and where technology can help / change.

Very short report on the change of the role of unis in providing content based courses. Thin, but notes OU has 360,000 iTunesU downloads per week and that the VC of the OU says that the value of an institution would not be its course content but how it motivated and supported students.

Presentation on implementing iTunes U at Missouri State Uni. Some good info.

Wenmoth quotes Bradwell's report 'The Edgeless University', one we should look at since it deals with change the unis need to embrace.

This wiki is set up to catalog university-based open educational resources projects. Currently we are focusing only English-speaking OER projects.

Scott Wilso at Uni of Bolton has created some Google Wave widget for Moodle. "I've created a Moodle course that uses some widgets, all of which make use of the Wave Gadget API. Some of these are Google examples (converted to W3C format) and some are ones we've created."

Lakehead Uni, Canada has apps and gmail for staff and students - since 2006.

Links to configuring many clients for Gmail. Colorado Uni gives staff optional access to Gmail as well as Apps for everyone

Reduce class size to 30-40 and tech single units for 4 weeks improves results