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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

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In this activity, each of the students took individual responsibility to seek out, evaluate and then post useful websites and online learning resources that were deemed indispensable to the group. These were posted up onto the group wiki, and a short summary attached by the ‘gold miner’ to explain what it contained and why it would be useful.

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Can anybody hear me?

Learning with e's

I walked back up the stairs to my desk for a quick cup of tea before the session started. And here are the points I wanted to make: 1) Edupunk is a philosophy deeply rooted in the belief that educators can 'do it themselves', and use tools that are open, 'free' and non-proprietary. The sound quality was good. All set to go.

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Top 60 eLearning Posts for October 2010

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4 Free Tools to Help Get Your PowerPoint from Good to Great , October 21, 2010 Continuing the recent trend of PowerPoint in the news , I stumbled upon an article in USA Today that provided some tips and advice for designing more engaging presentations. Flying around in VirtualU: Sense of space is important in virtual learning environments.