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"The push towards web-based learning at universities has halved student attendance rates in some courses and dramatically increased working hours for lecturers, a survey of academics has found." Oh dear!

Study from which the previous article drew some of its data. "The study's objectives are to build a picture of the overall character and quality of the first year experience..."

Survey based on perceptions of preferred and actual learning in online environments based on social constructivist pedagogies.

Tweets from the Google users group meeting. Sounds like it was good!

Will probably be some important stuff coming through this site concerning digital literacy in HE.

Learning design concepts in a neat diagram.

This guide was written especially for educators, who want to teach 21st century skills, such as collaborating, communicating, and connecting, through digital storytelling. Free.

BBC 10 min piece on where ebooks fit into the library world - but is it the publishers that are controlling the game?

A look at social media use in SE Asia and Europe as case studies and how HE can use to increase enrolments.

"Very simply, I've thought about how (and why) I support Panopto in particular, with a set of Inputs and (Pedagogically focused) Outputs from and to our staff development model."

Post on an ed techs  approach to supporting Panopto. Focused on the 'how' of support and no description on the types of use suggested.

"Is lecture capture the single worst example of poor educational technology use in higher education?"

"Don't use technology in the classroom, use it before and after, outside of the classtoom."

"In January 2009, Jay Mathews of the Washington Post disparagingly labeled the call for new media literacy and 21st Century skills "the latest doomed pedagogical fad,"..."

"The report is based on questionnaires and interviews conducted by BCcampus with a cross section of institutional stakeholders (instructors, teaching and learning centres and IT administrators) at 9 BC post-secondary institutions (25 were contacted) in the Fall of 2010. The paper highlights some of the concerns and benefits post-sec institutions in BC are grappling with when considering using cloud-based applications and services (specifically those hosted in the US), and illustrates some examples of how BC post-sec's have addressed these issues within their institutions."

Clever analysis of why the iPad works for people.

"The Tertiary e-Learning Reference Group acts as an expert group that provides advice on tertiary e-learning to the Ministry of Education and Ako Aotearoa" The last publication from this groups is here: cms.steo.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/3B455FA8-586B-447B-A239-75C523841021/0/highwaysandpathways.pdf

MS site allowing searching across academic domains.

Links for listening and uploading to DS106 Radio - and the minimal protocol for loading.  Fantastic example of just getting out there and doing it.

And now, new ds106 TV http://www.justin.tv/ds106tv/b/282994702? I suspect here's an awful lot of copyrighted music played over the ds106 radio waves/pipes, but I wouldn't know since internet radio protocols seem to be blocked :-(

"Our first year Biological Sciences students have just completed their key skills course. This consists of two modules, one delivered in Term 1 (scientific literature databases, Google Reader & RSS, intellectual property, Google Docs collaborative writing,..."