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Here's some posts which have caught my attention this month:

• Study on the barriers that prevent researchers from publishing their code | Software Sustainability Institute – April 27, 2012
• FOI Signals on Useful Open Data? « OUseful.Info, the blog… – April 24, 2012
• MSDN Blogs – April 24, 2012
• Big data in Europe – O’Reilly Radar – April 23, 2012
• Exploring the Khan Academy’s use of Learning Data and Learning Analytics | Emerging Education Technology – April 23, 2012
• The Ed Techie: The role of respectable idiots – April 20, 2012
• From Paywalls and Attention Walls to Data Disclosure Walls and Survey Walls « OUseful.Info, the blog… – April 19, 2012
• John Cleese on Creativity | bavatuesdays – April 13, 2012
• Evidence Framework for Innovation and Excellence in Education » Blog Archive » Big Data – Avalanche? Flood? Tsunami? What does big data mean for educators? » Evidence Framework for Innovation and Excellence in Education – April 11, 2012
• Give the Chronicle Some Love | bavatuesdays – April 5, 2012
• Grades 2.0: How Learning Analytics Are Changing The Teacher’s Role | Edudemic – April 3, 2012
• Guest Post: Being Openly Selfish and Making “OER” Work for You « UK Web Focus – April 2, 2012
• Users, narcissism and control – tracking the impact of scholarly publications in the 21st century – April 2, 2012
• University Funding – A Wider View « OUseful.Info, the blog… – March 31, 2012
• Science of the Invisible: Putting the W in the DIK – March 31, 2012
• Backchannel and notes for #GTAUK : how to get the best from G+? « DrBadgr – March 31, 2012
• No MOOC Respect – CogDogBlog – March 29, 2012

Here’s some posts which have caught my attention this month:

• Creating Animated Bubble Charts in D3 Jim Vallandingham – February 27, 2012
• Learning a craft « Expedient Means – February 25, 2012 < you should definitely read this
• wobble: New – JISC Advance Funding for the FE and Skills sector – February 20, 2012
• Crowd-Sourced Learning Platform Memrise Nabs $1.05M From Matt Mullenweg, Lerer Ventures And More! | TechCrunch – February 17, 2012
• Yahoo’s New Visualization Beautifully Shows What’s Happening on the Web – February 11, 2012
• Why iPad Textbooks Are Still Too Expensive for Schools [INFOGRAPHIC] – February 11, 2012
• 5 Essential Spreadsheets for Social Media Analytics – February 11, 2012
• Software sustainability != project sustainability at OSS Watch team blog – February 11, 2012
• Science of the Invisible: Student feedback using Google+ – February 8, 2012
• January in Review: Styles, Sparklines, Group Discussion Insert, Google+ sharing, and more | Docs Blog – February 8, 2012
• Research in Learning Technology Vol 20 (2012) – interesting articles on OER and Social Network Analysis in Education – February 6, 2012
• Michael Feldstein – OER Funding: Ask the Right Questions – February 6, 2012
• How should Page Admins deal with Flame Wars? | Professor Mediaczar’s Magic Bean Laboratory – February 2, 2012
• Codecademy introduces Course Creator: anyone can create programming lessons via @ZoeRoss19 @teknoteacher – January 31, 2012
• Lessig on the Lobbiest Threat to Open Access… « OUseful.Info, the blog… – January 29, 2012

Here’s some posts which have caught my attention this month:

• Scottish universities ordered to widen access under new funding deal | Education | guardian.co.uk – December 21, 2011
• OER Visualisation Project: Exploring UKOER/JORUM via OAI with Google Refine and visualising with Gource [day 11] – MASHe – December 20, 2011
• RSC Wales Higher Education Blog – December 15, 2011
• A mini-course on network and social network literacy – howardrheingold’s posterous – December 14, 2011
• Invest in yourself: TechDis Tuesdays | The LTT Blog – December 14, 2011
• Beyond Blogging as an Open Practice, What About Associated Open Usage Data? « UK Web Focus – December 14, 2011
• Universities risk aggressive marketing | Education | The Guardian – December 13, 2011
• Scottish Startup Sensewhere Promises Accurate Indoor Location-Tracking | TechCrunch – December 9, 2011
• Using Data From Linked Data Datastores the Easy Way (i.e. in a spreadsheet, via a formula) « OUseful.Info, the blog… – December 9, 2011
• Results of publicly funded research will be open access – science minister | Science | guardian.co.uk – December 9, 2011
• Donald Clark Plan B: More pedagogic change in 10 years than last 1000 years – all driven by 10 technology innovations – December 7, 2011
• Facebook Tests Negative Sentiment Analysis Feature For Pages – December 4, 2011
• Three lessons learned from student debrief of tiered labs – Reflections of a Techie – December 4, 2011
• Why Does Google Obscure Searches for Content Licensed for Re-use? – CogDogBlog – December 4, 2011
• Digital Infrastructure to Support Open Content for Education : Digital Infrastructure Team – December 1, 2011
• JavaScript Client Library for Google APIs Alpha version released – The official Google Code blog – December 1, 2011
• Software Sustainability Institute to review Google code project | Software Sustainability Institute – November 29, 2011
• The Non-Training Approach to Workplace Learning Learning in the Social Workplace – November 28, 2011
• How to get intelligence from conferences – for free | Software Sustainability Institute – November 28, 2011

Here’s some posts which have caught my attention this month:

• Introducing @GuardianTagBot, your new Twitter-based search assistant – October 27, 2011
• Google+ Resurrects Playback Feature From Wave, Renames It “Ripples” – October 28, 2011 – and adds visualisation to the conversation
• Google+ now available for Google Apps domains – October 27, 2011
• Collecting Tweets With the TwitterPad Plug-In for WordPress – October 25, 2011
• Hackers are vital to the university culture of openness and innovation | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional – October 24, 2011
• Student Charter – October 24, 2011 – (Technology in Higher Education) from the NUS
• Open Online Course: Learning Analytics 2012 – October 21, 2011 – via @gsiemens
• . @danbri presents ‘views of bibliographic data, based on similarity measures’ [calculated by mahout viz w/h Gephi] – October 17, 2011 – via @ostephens
• What can be done to encourage HEIs to embrace open learning resources? – October 17, 2011
• Student as Creator – October 16, 2011
• The race to platform education – post by George Siemens *highly recommended* October 13, 2011
• Google Plus: Click This Button to See What People Are Saying There About Your Site – October 11, 2011
• Google appointment slots for parent teacher conferences – post by Tim Houston on how you can use Google Calendar to let people fill in appointment slots October 12, 2011
• Badges, identity and the $2million prize fund – October 11, 2011
• SocialnetImporter for NodeXL: Import your Facebook ego-networks – October 10, 2011
• JISC Grant funding 16/11: JISC Digital infrastructure programme – October 21, 2011
• 6 Best Practices for Universities Embracing Social Media – October 10, 2011
• RepositoryMan: Using EPrints Repositories to Collect Twitter Data – October 10, 2011 – by @lescarr via @briankelly another way to archive tweets
• How data and open government are transforming NYC – October 7, 2011
• There’s a wealth of data out there – why not let us use it? | Ben Goldacre – October 7, 2011

Here’s some posts which have caught my attention this month:

• What is the Student Experience? – August 26, 2011 – SRHE Student Experience Network seminar 21 oct
• Open Badges, assessment and Open Education – August 25, 2011 – post by Graham Attwell triggered by a study group setup by Doug Belshaw. “The Open Badges framework, say the project developers, is designed to allow any learner to collect badges from multiple sites, tied to a single identity, and then share them out across various sites — from their personal blog or web site to social networking profiles. The infrastructure needs to be open to allow anyone to issue badges, and for each learner to carry the badges with them across the web and other contexts.” 
• What Makes Educational Technology Successful in the Developing World? – August 23, 2011 – ReadWriteWeb report on the widespread use of mobiles in Africa. “Students have such a hunger for communication that they get their hands on a mobile phone by any means necessary” which has in places create a Glove style no phone in call policy 
• Etherpad Lite V1 is here! – August 22, 2011 – new release of the real-time collaborative writing tool which has be streamlined to allow deployment on more basic web hosting, API released and more
• Another Misread of the “Digital Native” Idea – August 22, 2011 – @derekbruff’s take on the recent OU study
• Stephen Downes: ebook on openness – August 21, 2011 – This post by @gsiemens should be the preface to @downes’s book ;-)
• Codecademy: A Slick, Fun Way To Teach Yourself How To Program – August 19, 2011
• Public funding, OER, and Academics – a brief reflection – August 18, 2011 – post by John Robertson at JISC CETIS “Earlier today Amber Thomas kicked off an interesting discussion on twitter about which institutions had a reputation for openness in various domains. One tangential thread from this conversation was a comment Pat Lockley made about the difference between openness that happens in connection to funded projects and openness that happens at your own initiative.”
• Not everything that counts can be counted – August 18, 2011 – post by AJ Cann highlighting paper by Tim Wilkinson reporting the move from a percentage grade based assessment system to pass/fail/distinction which produced “an improvement in intrinsic motivation and a greater sense of professional identity amongst our students”
• BBC News – Most UK students ‘satisfied with university course’ – August 17, 2011 – #nss via @universityboy
• Students name best (and worst) universities – Education News, Education – The Independent – August 17, 2011 – #nss via @universityboy
• HEFCE: Eight out of 10 higher education students give their courses top marks – August 17, 2011 #nss
• QMU launches world’s first curriculum for meetings and events technology in HE – August 14, 2011
• 100 universities making use of new journal evaluation service – are you signed up? – August 11, 2011
• RT @QAAtweets Does more contact mean better value? Read our new guide to understanding contact hours – August 11, 2011
• Google Retires Android App Inventor, Open-Sources the Code – August 9, 2011 – and will now reside at MIT 
• Getting Library Catalogue Searches Out There… – August 9, 2011
• Indian Government to Launch Education Social Network – August 9, 2011
• Universities enrol for a marketing masterclass | In-Depth Analysis | Marketing Week – August 9, 2011
• Learning and Academic Analytics – August 6, 2011