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"The BehaviourComposer is a web-based tool designed to support teachers, learners and researchers, including those with little or no programming experience, to build, share, and discuss computer models."

"Being connected changes learning. When those connections are global, the experience of knowledge development is dramatically altered as well. Over the past four years, a growing number of educators have started experimenting with the teaching and learning process in order to answer critical questions: "How does learning change when formal boundaries are reduced? What is the future of learning? What role with educators play in this future? What types of institutions does society need to respond to hyper-growth of knowledge and rapid dissemination of information? How do the roles of learners and educators change when knowledge is ubiquitous? ... (The result is) a MOOC with each week being facilitated by an innovative thinker, researcher, and scholar. Over 30 of them. From 11 different countries."

Across Europe, Ministries of Education and other providers of educational content are now offering a wide-range of catalogues and large repositories of online learning resources to schools. However, as the number of resources in these repositories continues to expand, educational budgets are struggling to cope with the increasing demand for better quality metadata that will enable teachers and learners to quickly and easily find the specific learning materials they need. The MELT project has been specifically designed to address this issue by: * Enhancing the precision of the metadata applied to educational content * Helping educational content providers meet the growing challenge of volume metadata creation.

Engine for creating widgets - includes a base for creating Moodle plug-ins

A new site developed by e-cast which seems to be setting itself as a forum for technology (and education?) debates.

Uses the script editor. We would prob need more but should investigate how difficult scripts are to make.

Revamp of elearning guidelines - sort of benchmarking I guess (at least that is how it looks to me)