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By this autumn, every university in England will have published a new set of information about every undergraduate course on offer. These Key Information Sets will include data on areas such as contact hours, graduate salaries and student satisfaction. But with little fanfare, one institution has already put itself ahead of the game by displaying information about its graduates in a way that could set a benchmark for the sector. The University of Oxford has created an online tool for comparing data about its graduates' careers and salaries. Tucked away on its main careers website and organised into a set of user-friendly tables, it allows immediate comparisons of the salary and employment status of its alumni from 2008-09 and 2009-10 - undergraduate and postgraduate - sorted by subject area, individual course and even constituent college.

Working on the open web has benefits for students and faculty alike.

Antioch University Los Angeles becomes one of the first universities to offer credit for two undergraduate courses from Coursera. 

Go Apple - The University of Adelaide intends to replace undergraduate science textbooks with iPad versions from next year onwards.

"A universally frustrating experience for undergraduates is the struggle to determine the prerequisites they need to graduate in their chosen fields. But help is close at hand."

"what is required is a radical re-conceptualizing of the teaching and learning process, where the goal becomes "helping students learn" rather than 'teaching.'"

"Students like Ms. Cook are among the first generation of undergraduates at dozens of colleges to take humanities courses - even Shakespeare - that are deeply influenced by a new array of powerful digital tools and vast online archives."

Student as Producer is a development of the University of Lincoln's policy of research-informed teaching to research-engaged teaching. Research-engaged teaching involves more research and research-like activities at the core of the undergraduate curriculum

"...the two main activities in a lecturer's job, research and teaching, work against each other." So why not get the students doing research too?