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Many members of JISC Emerge community are active in exploiting the potential of various Web 2.0 technologies and approaches. But what if the Web 2.0 sceptics are right? What if Web 2.0 services aren't sustainable? What if the social aspect of social networking tools are too intrusive? How should we go about developing a sustainable approach to use of Web 2.0?

"There are countless websites offering images, video and audio files for use in education, but it's not always easy to know which sites are most useful or appropriate. This advice document discusses general tools and strategies for finding digital resources and looks at many of the sites you can use as reliable sources."

" new piece of free software to help students and universities manage academic references more easily has been developed by the Open University and its partners."

DigLit referenced in a page on using collaborative tools.

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The goal of this study is to produce a report with 8-12 case studies which have used social software to support and engage learners, or have embedded the social software within the pedagogy of a course or a programme.

Gen Y students using more Web2.0 than older students but generally in passive ways e.g. reading blogs but not writing them.

"I've been testing the alpha release of CaPRéT , a tool that aids attribution and tracking of openly licensed content from web sites. According to the Caprét website. When a user cuts and pastes text from a CaPRéT-enabled site: The user gets the text as originally cut, and if their application supports the pasted text will also automatically include attribution and licensing information.The OER site can also track what text was cut, allowing them to better understand how users are using their site." The attribution below was automatically added when I pasted in the text above. Interesting indeed and some good stuff happening in this space. Testing CaprétSource : http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/philb/2011/08/17/testing-capret/License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Author: Phil Barker, JISC CETIS

Effective Practice in a Digital Age is designed for those in further and higher education whose focus is on designing and supporting learning: academic staff, lecturers, tutors and learning support staff, facilitators, learning technologists and staff developers, and others with an interest in enhancing the quality of learning and teaching, and a curiosity about how technology can assist them.

A new set of guides on using web2 tech in HE

Collaborative approaches to the management of elearning - A Jisc and Hefce project.

"Provide a whole system wide view of what tertiary education might look like in New Zealand in 2016. The work will use JISC collective scenario building strategies and, in turn, draw on and inform the discussions of the TeLRG."

Interesting legal considerations on lecture capture and screencasting (in the UK context). Raises some issues for our use of Panopto.

A JISC page on deciding which Open License to choose. Useful stuff.

Slides with an overview of the Jisc Digital Literacies programme.

"The project funds student partnerships in various disciplines to develop online learning resources using specialist software. This complements our partnership with Jisc on their Developing digital literacies project which aims to give students digital skills by encouraging HE curriculums to include digital elements."