Great site on art history. Really well designed.

"TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime. Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs."

A rash of note sharing services are developing, some 'official', some not, some for profit, some not. Has some of the usual 'terrible' quotes embedded.

Anything that has been bookmarked in Diigo with www.waikato.ac.nz in the URL

Disruptive Innovation - an example from US HE of changing hthe way people access universities and undertake degrees.

"Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning by those who are taught.". From 2008.

A JISC InfoKit on strategic planning and activity

"The Impact Calculator can be used to demonstrate the impact of records and information management by quantifying the tangible benefits or efficiency gains that can be derived from it."

Opinion piece on the place of online lectures in the future of education.  Get your world class expert via YouTube, MIT, etc and use your time with students to really interact with them and the material.

An online book by the Google Chrome team about things that you should probably know or be aware of when using the web.

UoQ's new Centre for educational innovation and technology.

Blog on how to reconsider learning spaces.

What do we need for adults to learn? A set of short 'laws' to help us think about enabling learning exepiences.

"The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information."

"We propose a framework for organizing multiple metadata specifications in a container that can be handled as a whole. This framework, named Information for Learning Object eXchange (ILOX), is developed as part of the IMS Learning Object Discovery & Exchange (LODE) specification that aims to facilitate the discovery and retrieval of learning objects stored across more than one collection. While thus far ILOX has been demonstrated to resolve a number of challenges specific to the e-learning domain, it is a generic framework that can be profiled to organize metadata about any type of digital content."

The first chapter of the book.

"As part of the JISC-funded Student Expectations of University project, aimed at enhancing applicants' understanding of university experiences, the 1994 Group have produced this report to illustrate innovative and excellent practice in the areas of: communicating with prospective students; providing information, advice and guidance (IAG) to applicants; and managing student expectations of university."

Interesting.