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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.

A technical landscaping pilot on Open Access publishing of scholarly monographs to multiple devices - ebook, tablet, mobile.

George Siemens on failing to get a research chair but also including his proposal for a centre to study social media and learer analytics.

"Music and movie industries, you're well-known for being incredibly short-sighted, greedy and stupid. I'm not going to argue with that, because you really are."  A post explaining why piracy happens in simple terms.

eLearning conferences for this year - more than you can count! So many conferences, so little time... (but ASCILITE 2012 isn't in this list - yet).

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

Not just "A form was submitted" but the data submitted too.

Lots of videos on using Google Apps. Might be worth adding into our Site as a focused selection.

"This report gives an overview of the literature on tertiary learners' participation, retention and success in e-learning."

Creative Commons materials search engine - modified from a Korean engine and searches Flickr, Jamendo and Youtube for sounds, videos and docs licenced under a CC licence

Some at useful times for NZ and some interesting stuff. Real world examples, not just "Be open, it's cool".

Openness in a comic. Op-ed rather than how-to.

Included in core 2.2 or installable in 2.x allows the system to decide which version (default, tablet, mobile) to serve.

The rationale behind online 'piracy' in a comic. 

"...a new breakthrough update means that not only is its physical footprint massively reduced, but also its cost. Depending on the amount of storage space required for files, for less than $50 anyone can now run a PirateBox wireless file-sharing system."

Scott Wilson reports on an open source initiative to develop web app stores for universities and other communities.

Merging the Tii plugins for Moodle to one official version. Dan Marsden

Social media use - suggestions from a doctor.

Report on a change in Internet traffic post-copyright law changes.

Interesting research by @Waikato researchers showing the impact of the new file sharing law change on internet traffic. Conclusion: little net-change in traffic, users have simply shifted to more secure protocols.

"MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses for free to a virtual community of learners around the world. It will also enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences. The first MITx course, 6.002x (Circuits and Electronics), will be launched in an experimental prototype form. Watch this space for further upcoming courses, which will become available in Fall 2012."