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What is ScienceHack? ScienceHack: A unique video search engine for science videos.

What is ScienceHack?ScienceHack is a unique video search engine for science videos. Read the Full Article

PBS RE-LAUNCHES “PBS PARENTS” WEB SITE WITH NEW FEATURES, NEW CONTENT — AND TRIPLE THE BLOG POWER

Guide to “Understanding and Raising Girls” and “Supersisters” Blog Among the New Additions at www.pbsparents.org

Open Textbook Meets Community Colleges

Proponents of the open textbook movement have long envisioned a world of free (or almost free) educational materials, available to print or download, written by experts for others to read, share, improve or modify as they see fit.Read the Full Article

Postyourtest.com raises ethical concerns

California-based web site called ‘worrisome’ by some Read the Full Article

INTELECOM Launches on iTunes U

ASADENA, Calif., July 2 /PRNewswire/ — Educators, students and lifelong learners alike can now access free content from INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications, as INTELECOM joins a growing number of educational institutions and content providers on iTunes URead the Full Article

Wikireadia

WikiREADia is a searchable and editable online encyclopaedia of good practice in reading. As reading is a huge field the number of articles and topics is potentially huge and this is a chance to gather together and share good practice in reading for all audiences (whether that is young children, adult learners, readers in the […]

Sloodle

Sloodle is an Open Source project which aims to develop and share useful, usable, desireable tools for supporting education in virtual worlds, making teaching easier. Through engagement with an active community of developers and users, the Sloodle project hopes to develop sound pedagogies for teaching across web-based and 3D virtual learning environments. Sloodle integrates the […]

Read the eBook: The Theory and Practice of Online Learning

Every chapter in the widely distributed first edition has been updated, and four new chapters on current issues such as connectivism and social software innovations have been added. Essays by practitioners and scholars active in the complex, diverse, and rapidly evolving field of distance education blend scholarship and research; practical attention to the details of […]

Encyclopaedia Britannica Goes — Gasp! — Wiki

Long a standard reference source for scholarship, largely because of its tightly controlled editing, the Encyclopaedia Britannica announced this week it was throwing open its elegantly-bound covers to the masses. It will allow the “user community” (in the words of the encyclopedia’s blog) to contribute their own articles, which will be clearly marked and run […]

A New Website Devoted to Envisioning the Future of Libraries

What is the future of academic and research libraries? A recently launched web site from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) entitled Libraries of the Future (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/librariesofthefuture) addresses that question and others concerning how the libraries of today may evolve to address the needs of future information users. With the site, JISC hopes to engender […]