Wcel_Team

Useful active list of MOOC research

A mixed article on online learning and the effect on international student numbers (and conflates with moocs)

Report from UK on innovating in the TEL space.

Wiki from UK uni with guidance for users on Moodle features. There may be some ideas there that we can reuse at some point.

Interesting project to map the impact of OERs.

Some useful points gathered in one place about selling services to staff. I think that we know all of these but handy to have in one place.

Allison Miller on why Moodle supports the eportfolio concept.

Why reviewers should append their name to reviews.

Great talk by Donald Clark caring about those who don't go to Oxford & Cambridge. Expands on MOOCs and why they are important

Tony Bates announces his retirement (at 75!). He'll be missed in the field.

"As learning technologies are now integral to most higher education student learning experiences, universities need to make strategic choices about what technologies to adopt and how to best support and develop the use of these technologies, particularly in a climate of limited resources. Information from students is therefore a valuable contribution when determining institutional goals, building infrastructure and improving the quality of student learning. This paper draws on a survey of student experiences and expectations of technology across three Australian universities. Analysis of text responses from 7,000 students provides insight into ways that institutional learning technologies and academic-led technologies are influencing the student experience. This paper also discusses how the three universities have used this information to develop strategic initiatives, and identifies a need for new strategies to support academic-led use of the available tools."

Revamp of elearning guidelines - sort of benchmarking I guess (at least that is how it looks to me)

No doubt you guys will have caught this news.... "Google is developing a tool to help teachers manage classroom tasks, a move that should have education app vendors trembling as if they'd been sent to the principal's office. The software, called Classroom , will become part of Apps for Education, Google's cloud email and collaboration suite for schools and universities, Google said Tuesday"

e-learning growth in community colleges in the USA - quite a nice summary of the top five benefits of elearning