Wcel_Team

Course site created using Posterous as the backbone and including Twitter, Scribd, etc.  Created since the teacher doesn't like Blackboard!

Posterous Spaces - like Google+ but less complicated ...

Take a photograph of an old photo in context and speak to it.

In a move that could shake the e-learning industry, Pearson today unveiled a new learning management system that colleges will be able to use for free, without having to pay any of the licensing or maintenance costs normally associated with the technology. Pearson's new platform, called OpenClass, is only in beta phase.  By providing complimentary customer support and cloud-based hosting, OpenClass purports to underprice even the nominally free open-source platforms that recently have been gaining ground in the LMS market. "I think that the announcement really marks another, and important, nail in the coffin of the proprietary last-generation learning management system," says Lev Gonick, CIO of Case Western Reserve University.

"We are the world's largest publisher of free and open college textbooks. With our ever-expanding catalog of top quality books by expert authors, now is your chance to be a hero and help your students save thousands of dollars. Get started today and join the textbook affordability movement."

THE ACADEMICPUB APPLICATION GIVES EDUCATORS THE ABILITY TO CREATE THEIR OWN CUSTOM BOOKS - IN PRINT AND E-BOOK FORMAT. Our application provides real-time copyright clearance and an ever-expanding content library along with the ability to add your own materials and articles from the web. And - peer recommendations from colleagues in your discipline can present new possibilities to enrich your courses.

"Connexions is a dynamic digital educational ecosystem consisting of an educational content repository and a content management system optimized for the delivery of educational content. Connexions is one of the most popular open education sites in the world. Its more than 17,000 learning objects or modules in its repository and over 1000 collections (textbooks, journal articles, etc.) are used by over 2 million people per month. Its content services the educational needs of learners of all ages, in nearly every discipline, from math and science to history and English to psychology and sociology. Connexions delivers content for free over the Internet for schools, educators, students, and parents to access 24/7/365. Materials are easily downloadable to almost any mobile device for use anywhere, anytime. Schools can also order low cost hard copy sets of the materials (textbooks)."

Primarily an attendance register with ARS functionality, but limited to 100 Bluetooth and Java equipped cellphones.

Sounds like the connection is a marketplace app, not a full part of the suite. Less inspired than possibility of G+ and hangout tech.

Audrey Waters questions what free means when it's 'really free' and realises that if it's too good to be true then it's too good to be true!

Making notes in pictures - graphic recording, doodling, what you will.

Developing a communication system by which users can connect to each other and share information in the absence of convenient access to the Internet.

Adelaide science faculty gives all 1st year students an iPad and only uses electronic text books.  Have redesigned the curriculum  and getting very positive results. Book costs for students have dropped to 60% of what they were and the uni is looking to move entirely to free online resources.

"[Blackboard] announced plans to add a 'Share' button that will let professors make those learning materials free and open online."<--stealing the march on Moodle? #irony

"One of these dead ideas is that grading motivates learning. Pike contends that grading motivates getting grades."

Not here yet but coming ...

Dave White explains Visitors and Residents, an alternative to the native / immigrant dichotomy in the online world.

The cost of higher education and why cheap shots in facebook sendalongs should get you angry. A compelling post.

"Writing notes with a pen and paper helps you remember more, whereas typing gives you greater quantity of notes."

A digital taxonomy for Bloom