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"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?"

"Blanchard's and Moore's research finds that developmental milestones are changing as a new generation of young children approach learning and literacy in ways not thought possible in the past. According to this new report, digital media is already transforming the language and cultural practices that enable early literacy development, making possible a new kind of personal and global interconnectedness. The research reveals that: * Opportunities to engage with digital media increasingly prevail through the use of mobile devices-and in developing countries access to mobile devices is more commonplace than access to other technologies * Developmental milestones are changing as young people's access to mobile and digital technology grows. * Digital media positively impacts children's opinion of learning, providing engagement opportunities not always seen with print materials."

Comment on Katz article on academic scholarship in the digital age.

"What is you could rebuild the university from the ground up? ...with today's technology... for today's student... world. What would you build?"

"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.

Scottish government strategy paper. Hopefully worth a read!

"The price of college is going to fall, and the Internet is going to cause that fall. The rest of it is really difficult to figure out."

"In this blog, I will suggest a methodology for encouraging more innovative uses of technology for teaching and learning."

"Video is having a huge impact on education for both younger and older students, and that impact can be felt academically, socially, and financially. This panel from Streaming Media East explores them all."

Postcards from 1910 France predicting life in 2000. Some great education ones!

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

Insightful post on the trends in the LMS market. It doesn't really address the potential for the demise of the LMS alongside the rise of the independent and open services that education is exploring, e.g. YouTube, WordPress, etc.

Elearning is static. Mark William Johnson keeps us entertained with more philosophical musings on life, death and elearning.