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A look at social media use in SE Asia and Europe as case studies and how HE can use to increase enrolments.

"Universities that are forced to get by on dwindling budgets will drive a revolution in information technology, the next president of Universities UK has predicted."

Expensive chemistry books (and others!) now free online by a pioneer of open content.

Josh Kim tries to make sense of the Panopto-Pearson deal.

"...Twitter simplifies course management by replacing at least three classroom technologies..."

This resource is intended to distil lessons learned from various JISC innovation programmes into a "Good Practice Guide for Sustaining and Embedding Innovations". It is intended to support project steering groups and management teams in further and higher education in decision-making in this area and focuses on: Changing people and culture.Working with existing institutional structures to influence organisational change.Embedding or aligning with strategies, processes, systems, initiatives and services.Creating usable tools and resources (as part of project outputs) to meet stakeholder needs.Developing commercial and open approaches to sustaining and embedding innovation.

Croxall prefers Endnote but the early comments suggest he should try again!

"'The creation of video and the publishing of video is getting to the point where it's almost as easy as creating a written assignment,' says Kyle D. Bowen, Purdue University's director of informatics."s recent experience.

Students assess their professors' technology skills http://t.co/ebYN1nv (via @catspyjamasnz) #digitalliteracy #yam

"I'm convinced, however, that lecture capture is a fundamental enabling and catalyzing technology for improving learning (and may be a tool to open access and drive down costs as well)."

Interesting use of Inkling market prediction software to poll website vistors. More information at http://markets.nitle.org/

"The most alarming finding in the ERIAL studies was perhaps the most predictable: when it comes to finding and evaluating sources in the Internet age, students are downright lousy."

"LectureTools is not lecture capture. It is a tool designed to help student engagement during your lecture. It offers a variety of ways for profs to build in interactive elements into the lecture..."

Modern graduate attributes and why they shouldn't be just about making good workers.

Neil Selwyn essay on SM in HE. Looks good (and academic) but need to come back and read properly!

An event at UBC - useful to see what others are organising.

Atlantic article on SM in HE. Some good stuff about attitudes and the failure of the academy to maintain pedagogical control. Examples tho' seem to come from courses teaching 'about' SM, not 'through' SM.

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

"Learn. Unlearn. Relearn. In addition to the content of our course-which ranged across cognitive psychology, neuroscience, management theory, literature and the arts, and the various fields that compose science-and-technology studies-'This Is Your Brain on the Internet' was intended to model a different way of knowing the world, one that encompasses new and different forms of collaboration and attention. More than anything, it courted failure. Unlearning."