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"'Learning Perspectives:2010' is an open-source eBook by The MASIE Center and Learning 2010."

"Interpreting the CDW-G 2010 survey summary report, Campus Technology magazine concluded: 'Faculty members and campus IT staff aren't exactly in agreement on the necessity of some technologies in education.'"

It's the Horizon report ...

The presentations from the 2010 Transition Conference.

Webinar schedule for Open Access Week 18-22 October, 2010. (Good promotion for Otago Polytechnic).

Tony Hirst embeds the real-time twitter backchannel discussion into the JISC10 conference keynotes (or if you prefer your video without subtitles http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2010/04/jisc10/keynotes.aspx). Something for WCeLfest2011?

UCL's Moodle Development Plan 2010.

Google suggests that upgrading to Google Docs is a much better move than upgrading to Office 2010.

Josie Fraser's Keynote at Online Educa Berlin 2010. Keynote: Building Networked Learning Environments

The Department of Education's (ED) Office of Educational Technology today released a draft issue brief - Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics - representing the results of a months-long discourse among 8 academic and 15 industrial data mining and learning analytics experts conducted by SRI International. The brief, inspired by ED's 2010 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP), articulates the challenges and opportunities of Big Data in improving student outcomes and overall productivity of K-2 education systems. It focuses on three key research areas - educational data mining, learning analytics, and visual data analytics - and offers a set of corresponding recommendations, categorized by various stakeholders. ED is now seeking public comment on the draft.

The University of San Francisco has revealed the results of a six month 2010 iPad study involving 40 faculty members that looked at how teachers could use the device as a tool in the classroom. The result: while many teachers found the device useful, all thought there was room for improvement.

List of recent (back to 2010) startups in the online higher ed field. A range of target audiences.

"A total of 125 students taking a first year seminar course for pre-health professional majors participated in this study (70 in the experimental group and 55 in the control group). With the experimental group, Twitter was used for various types of academic and co-curricular discussions. Engagement was quantified by using a 19-item scale based on the National Survey of Student Engagement. To assess differences in engagement and grades, we used mixed effects analysis of variance (ANOVA) models, with class sections nested within treatment groups. We also conducted content analyses of samples of Twitter exchanges. The ANOVA results showed that the experimental group had a significantly greater increase in engagement than the control group, as well as higher semester grade point averages. Analyses of Twitter communications showed that students and faculty were both highly engaged in the learning process in ways that transcended traditional classroom activities."

Slideshare intro to Moodle

Lots and lots of tools, many of which you won't have heard of!

"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."

News article about Sherpa - course recommendation software

Auckland Uni running Virtual Grid.

Catalyst + Richard Wyles + Kineo = "The product, called Totara, is set to revolutionize the corporate LMS space as the first open-source learning management solution designed specifically for the corporate sector."