Account of a copyright agreement between 2 Canadian Unis and a licensing agency which increases the cost per student 8-fold and breaks ranks with other Canadian unis. Troubling developments.
"But I think there are two important things that online universities bring to the table: (1) Broadening access to higher education, and (2) Leveraging technology to explore new approaches to learning."
Jorum is starting to seem useful. This is a repository of online learning materials at tertiary level. Everything must be licensed openly and no login required to access materials.
"This blog post provides background information on digital literacy and argues that digital literacy needs to go beyond student teaching and ensure that staff and researchers, who may wish to continue their professional activities when they leave their current institution, are able to migrate content and services to the Cloud, so that content and tools can be reused once access to institutional services is no longer available."
"Create a feed from a device, building, environment or sensor connected to the internet and store, share & graph its datastreams in realtime..
Access realtime & historical data from devices, buildings, environments or sensors to control other environments, embed graphs in websites, trigger actions, etc..."
"The aim of this small project is to create a map of virtual world based scientific research and educational initiatives at UK universities. The map is being created by Birmingham-based virtual world specialists Daden Limited as part of this year's British Science Festival hosted at Aston University in Birmingham.Virtual Worlds such as Second Life, where users can socialise and connect on-line are already being extensively used by UK Universities and other educational and research organisations - but it can be hard to find out what is going on, and where. It can hopefully become a lasting resource for UK Science which can live on beyond the 2010 British Science Festival.The map is, appropriately, presented as virtual map inside of Second Life where visitors will be able to click on map markers to gain further information on each project, and to be directly transported to the science project location.Users without access to Second Life, or running projects in other virtual worlds, are not excluded from the project. All information will be available through this micro-site, which includes a browser based version of the Second Life map, and lists of projects in other worlds."
Pepperdine Uni has managed access to Google Apps, Yammer, Elluminate, VoiceThread and more to create their online learning environment. This video gives a run down of the features.
Some Danish high schools have experimented with allowing students access to the internet during exams. This is a news article but it suggests thayt the trial showed many positive effects.