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"This report analyses tertiary sector e-learning provision at a system, sub-sector and course level from 2004 to 2008. The sub-sectors focused on in the report are universities and polytechnics and the course levels bachelors degrees and certificates (Levels 1-4). Participation in e-learning course at these levels over the same time period is analysed by focusing on the following learner groups: 18-19 year olds, the 40+ age group, Māori, Pasifika and European and females and males Author: Peter Guiney, Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis team (Ministry of Education) Date Published: May 2011"

"First year economics students at Waikato University now have a better understanding of their subject, thanks to new media. Lecturer Michael Cameron gave students the option of making a video and uploading it to YouTube rather than doing a written assignment. The subject was 'Why should you study economics?'"

"Australian university lecturers are resisting putting recorded lectures online because they fear students will mock their off-the-cuff flubs in YouTube mashups and social networking posts."

From the Canadian Association of University Teachers

Most tasks our users perform in Moodle they also carry out with other applications or websites, but the workflow patterns they need to learn in order to use Moodle are unfamiliar to them. By tweaking these Moodle patterns to be more similar to those used by other websites we find we are often able to improve our users' experience of Moodle.

"Academic journals generally get their articles for nothing and may pay little to editors and peer reviewers. They sell to the very universities that provide that cheap labour." Nice business model!

"Instructional Design Tips for Online Learning was developed by Joan Van Duzer of Humboldt State University to be used in conjunction with the Rubric for Online Instruction developed by CSU, Chico, c 2002."

University refits student halls with Wifi and iPads for all. The aim "...to teach students 'IT IQ'-the ability to understand when a piece of technology is useful and when it isn't."

What are the fees like?

"... overseas students are offered help to cheat their way to UoWales-validated degrees and visas."

"The Mozilla Foundation and Peer-to-Peer University (P2PU), among others, are working to create an alternative - and recognized - form of certification that combines merit-earned badges with an open framework. The Open Badges Project will allow skills and competencies to be tracked, assessed, and showcased."

May not have quite the same clout with the NZQA :) but though you guys might be interested in this...

Interesting site. How do you distinguish your university from every other one on the block?

Student as Producer is a development of the University of Lincoln's policy of research-informed teaching to research-engaged teaching. Research-engaged teaching involves more research and research-like activities at the core of the undergraduate curriculum

Course site created using Posterous as the backbone and including Twitter, Scribd, etc.  Created since the teacher doesn't like Blackboard!

Otago University policies and guidelines around lecture capture and copyright.

A University of Toronto professor who got students to grade their peers' work has seen the practice blocked by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

Long list of case studies of using Apps at university. Most just with students but some eg Boise are with staff. Useful for the email project.

Seems like Idaho released Apps to staff in October 2009.

Trinity College, Dublin apparently using gmail for staff