Incorporating Google Apps with Blackboard
eSchool News (2009) Blackboard works on Google integration, eSchool News, November 3
A report of work at Northwestern University to provide an open-source integration of...
Call for action on open education from NMC and the Open University of Catalonia
A communiqué has just been released about the outcome of the Open Ed Tech conference held jointly by NMC and UOC in Barcelona October...
Using LMSs to identify 'at-risk' students
Kolowich, S. (2009) The new diagnostics, Inside Higher Education, September 30
An article about three institutions, Rio Salado Community College, Purdue University, and Capella University,...
JISC analysis of global activity in e-learning in higher education
MindSet Research (2009) Understanding Global Activity in Higher Education and Research: Primary, desk and web-based research Bristol UK: JISC
This study was commissioned by the...
What technology students have this year
Smith, S., Salaway, G., and Caruso, J. The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009—Key Findings Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied...
LMS wars: e-learning’s third phase
Kolowich, S. (2009) E-Learning's Third Phase Inside Higher Education, September 27
An article about new players in the learning management system field. However, I don't...
Cloud computing at the University System of Ohio
Fingerhut, E. (2009) Ohio Takes to the Clouds Campus Technology, October 22
Chancellor Eric D. Fingerhut provides a personal account of the perceived benefits in...
Learning English via games on cell-phones in rural India
Simmi Aujla (2009) In Rural India, Learning English via Cellphone Chronicle of Higher Education, October 21
A project based at Carnegie Mellon University will study...
Useful sources on mobile learning
The Ontario Educator Meetup has a useful reading list on mobile learning, mainly web posts about mobile learning in schools.
Thanks again to Richard Elliott's...
Free book on mobile learning in higher education
Jan Herrington, Anthony Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Ian Olney and Brian Ferry (editors), (2009) New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education, Wollongong, Australia:...