Wcel_Team

"A few changes in my professional profile at UBC in recent weeks… My old Office of Learning Technology has merged with the former Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth to become the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology." So maybe we're just following UBCs lead?

"The goal of the project is to provide librarians in developing and transitional countries information concerning copyright law." What about lecturers in first-world countries? Creative Commons licensed so we could adapt it!

UBC centre for teaching, learning and technology organisational chart - positioned under the Provost Academic with senior advisory board - interesting.

The icon sets for Google Apps

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."

Interesting post on url shorteners and some potential downsides, in short and long term.

Useful list of OSS or free authoring tools.

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

Rich, interactive ebooks from the OU - and free too!

The view from the 'man' :) New report on mobile learning and another on trends.

"At $379 outright, you can't expect the U8150 to compete with the iPhone 4 or top-end android phones, but it performs admirably."

"New psychological research suggests that university students who download a podcast lecture achieve substantially higher exam results than those who attend the lecture in person." Would have been nice to cite this morning ;-)

Some replies to objections to setting up Google Apps Edu.

Upload record or link audio files

The much anticipated MS Word MediaWiki filter: "Allows you to save your Microsoft Office Word 2007 and 2010 documents straight into MediaWiki."

"Open Cobalt Alpha is the first step in a long term project to make available to all people a free and open source platform for constructing, accessing, and sharing virtual workspaces for research and education. This 3D multimedia wiki technology makes it easy to create deeply collaborative and hyperlinked multi-user virtual workspaces, virtual exhibit spaces, and game-based learning and training environments that run on all major software operating systems. By using a peer-based messaging protocol to reduce reliance on server infrastructures for support of basic in world interactions across many participants, Open Cobalt makes it possible for people hyperlink their virtual worlds via 3D portals to form a large distributed network of interconnected collaboration spaces. It also makes it possible for schools and other organizations to freely set up their own networks of public and private 3D virtual workspaces that feature integrated web browsing, voice chat, text chat, and access to remote desktop applications and services."

Hey guys. Just watched a live session online at Cisco w the developers of this system, still in development, but interesting differentiators vs 2Life, e.g. peer-to-peer, nested worlds, oh and its open-source. Thought yaz might be interested in tracking it.

"Yovisto is a video search engine specialized on educational video content". Recommended by Prof Zinke.

The Ministry of Education and the Tertiary Education Commission supported the development of this Code of Practice by the tertiary education sector. It is expected that the Code will inform the activities of both tertiary education organisations and the Tertiary Education Commission in identifying, understanding and responding to the diverse needs of students with impairments.

Interesting.

"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."