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"OLCOS, the Open eLearning Content Observatory Services project (1/2006-12/2007) is co-funded under the European Union's eLearning Programme and aims at building an (online) information and observation centre for promoting the concept, production and usage of open educational resources, in particular, open digital educational content (ODEC) in Europe."

"In the first of a new series of online 'radio' programmes - JISC on Air - we explore how digital technologies are helping universities to share reliable and consistent course information and support new students throughout the recruitment process."

"The development of the information society and the widespreaddiffusion of information technology give rise to new opportunities for learning. At the same time, they challenge established views and practices regarding how teaching and learning should be organised and carried out. Higher educational institutions have been using the Internet and other digital technologies to develop and distribute education for several years. Yet, until recently, much of the learning materials were locked up behind passwords within proprietary systems, unreachable for outsiders. The open educational resource (OER) movement aims to break down such barriers and to encourage and enable freely sharing content."

Simple digital story telling tool

"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."

5 technological (of 25) ways to reduce the cost of education. Maybe #18 is behind the VCs drive for a digital library? (PDFs saved in the WCELteam Zotero group).

A day in the life of a digital learning resource brings together experts and practitioners from all areas of this field to explore the latest and best practice in using and reusing these instructional tools.

Digital library of educational literature

This and that from internet, entertainment, media and brands -Cool photos with savvy text attached

In this article I want to reflect on the rhetoric of 'Web 2.0' and its potential versus actual impact. I want to suggest that we need to do more than look at how social networking technologies are being used generally as an indicator of their potential impact on education, arguing instead that we need to rethink what are the fundamental characteristics of learning and then see how social networking can be harnessed to maximise these characteristics to best effect. I will further argue that the current complexity of the digital environment requires us to develop 'schema' or approaches to thinking about how we can best harness the benefits these new technologies confer.

Free ebook / download.

Upcoming future of education webinars. There are some interesting topics, especially in the Education for a Digital World 2.0 Series.

A holding page for the BBC's 1984 Domesday Project. The project is now unavailable due to the digital obselesence of equipment and storage media.

Wiki supporting development of 21C and digital literacy skills.

" The SLiDA project investigated how institutions are creating and enabling opportunities that promote the development of effective learning in a digital age. The ultimate aim is to promote strategies which support learners to develop the access, skills, strategies and attributes they need to learn effectively with technology. The main deliverables of the study are a set of institutional Case Studies which are presented on this site. Any questions about the project can be directed to Rhona Sharpe, Oxford Brookes University."

"Web-based lecture technologies cover a range of technologies, including iLecture/Lectopia, for digitally recording lectures for delivery to students online." The other report quoted in the "Online study kills uni" article.