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The future of the textbook?

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Keith Hampson's Higher Education Management Group site has an interesting posting of Wired Magazine's video about a new digital biology textbook costing $10 million...

Hope and despair: managing technological change

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In a very funny low budget British movie called 'Clockwise', John Cleese plays a school principal with an obsession about punctuality who is asked...

NMC Horizon Report on new learning technologies for Latin America

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The 2010 Horizon Report: Edición Iberoamericana, a Spanish language edition, is the result of a collaboration between the NMC and the Open University of...

Online conference on innovating e-learning

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JISC, UK - the nearest equivalent in North America is EDUCAUSE - is running an online conference: Innovating e-Learning 2010 Online Conference Bringing innovation to...

Free new guide to teaching at a distance from South Africa

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The South African Institute of Distance Education has developed a new guide for adjunct instructors supporting learners at a distance (called tutors outside North...

Taking OER beyond the OER community: online forums

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The Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO are organising a series of three online discussion forums on aspects of Open Educational Resources. This is part...

The Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning

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The Sixth Pan Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF6) will take place from 24-28 November 2010 at Le-Meridien, Cochin Resort & Convention ...

Conference on learning environments and ecosystems in Engineering Education

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IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference: "Learning Environments and Ecosystems in Engineering Education" EDUCON2011 Princess Sumaya University for Technology Amman, Jordan 4-6 April 2011 Call for Papers The conference is the...

New book on Web 2.0 and Social Informatics for Tertiary Learning

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Lee, M. and McCoughlin, C. (2010) Web 2.0 Based e-Learning: Applying Social Informatics for Tertiary Learning Hershey PA: IGI Global, 415 pp, US$180 hardback Description...

Report on e-Learning Africa 2010

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The eLearning Africa conference was held in Lusaka, Zambia in May. Here are some stats on the conference: eLearning Africa 2010 in a nutshell 1778...