"This page serves as the online 'home base' for the CFT workshop titled 'Engaging Students in Large Lecture Courses' held on Wednesday, February 17, 2010."

"Which of the following predictions about the future of libraries were made by university administrators? Within five years, libraries will focus exclusively on electronic resources Academic computing and libraries will merge. Librarians who do not produce will be reassigned or fired. The library will only house materials that are actively used. Libraries will shrink, in both collection size and staffing, and funding will be redirected from libraries to more critical and productive areas of the university." Sound familiar?

George Siemens "shares some Elgg love": "When I survey the landscape of educational tools, I come to the following conclusion: Elgg is the most important tool, currently available, in shaping the future of learning."

The University of California, Davis has stopped using Gmail for its 30,000-member staff and faculty body. The university was trying Gmail for faculty and staff with plans to roll out service to the entire campus. But school officials say the e-mail system isn't secure or private enough to meet their standards.

Another vision of the 'spare room': "The Media Zoo provides a supportive, experimental environment for University staff to facilitate transfer of understanding of the design of learning activities using learning technologies."

"Digilab is a creative space on the ground floor of the Library, designed to inspire and support innovation in the development of pedagogically effective learning materials." This is what I imagine when I think of our 'spare room' renovation!

Terry Anderson reflects on his NZ visit: "New Zealand is doing a great job of supporting the development of high quality teaching and learning in tertiary education."

"Children love to learn, but at some point they lose that and become adults that don't like formal learning. Let's explore why 'play' has gotten such a bad rap and figure out how to get it back in education." Nice use of prezi.

"3 ways that technology and learning technologists can assist faculty who would like to experiment as Professor Davidson [http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/05/03/grading] has done with finding more authentic and effective ways to use grading to promote learning."

"Her plan? Turn over grading to the students in the course, and get out of the grading business herself... Her approach works based on contracts and 'crowdsourcing.'"

"Read on to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom."

"Which of the following two assignments is more likely to engage high school students and inspire them to learn something? 1.  Write a paper about contemporary US war veterans. 2.  Create a multimedia resource of news feeds, archival video, student interviews with veterans, document how you accomplished it, and share your findings with the world."

"he power of storytelling as a pedagogical tool has been recognized from time immemorial, and, in recent times, for e-learning as well (Neal, 2001)."

"A brief but informative booklet has just been released by BECTA titled Messages from Evidence: Assessment using technology."

"The question I'd ask: is the money that mass-marketing colleges are spending on marketing themselves and scaling themselves well spent? Are they organizing for changing lives or for ranking high? Does NYU have to get so much bigger? Why?"

Tony Bates 12th book entitled 'Integrating technology in universities and colleges' is based around case studies on managing technology in universities.

"David gave a presentation on the current features and future directions of BIM. Without a doubt, this add on to Moodle will greatly assist teachers trying to use blogs with large cohorts of students..."

Audio of a UK workshop held around issues of sustainability (i.e. without project funding) in releasing OERs.