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		<title>Do Apple&#8217;s design tools make it too easy to create textbooks and courses? &#124; Inside Higher Ed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With great power comes great responsibility. Being able to design something doesn't mean that you design it correctly. The new iBooks Author from Apple is a double-edged sword in many ways, as this article points out.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/02/13/essay-do-apples-design-tools-make-it-too-easy-create-textbooks-and-courses</link>
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		<title>Second Life Is Dead, Long Live Second Life?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even though Second Life seems to be long gone, virtual worlds are still growing in education. This article looks at the shifts that are happening away from Second Life to other platforms and what is driving those shifts. Good catch up article for those...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume46/SecondLifeIsDeadLongLiveSecond/226180</link>
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		<title>Is the Problem With Traditional Education the Lecture or the Lecturer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chronicle has an interesting article about how A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn&#8217;t Working. It also touches on how a techno-phobic professor is having success with standard lecture formats. I think at some point we are going to have to realize that old methods aren&#8217;t all bad, and new methods aren&#8217;t always the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edugeekjournal.com/2012/02/14/is-the-problem-with-traditional-education-the-lecture-or-the-lecturer/</link>
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		<title>A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn&#8217;t Working &#8211; Technology &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting that some tech-evangelists are re-thinking their stances against lectures. From what I read in this article, it seems like the problem is really that other teacher's are just trying to copy this professor rather than create their own methods.]]></description>
		<link>http://chronicle.com/article/A-Tech-Happy-Professor-Reboots/130741/?sid=wc&#038;utm_source=wc&#038;utm_medium=en</link>
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		<title>elearnspace › Openness: Why learners should know about, and influence, how decisions are made about their learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hacker ethics meets learning analytics in open learning.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2012/02/10/openness-why-learners-should-know-about-and-influence-how-decisions-are-made-about-their-learning/</link>
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		<title>Social Media Usage Trends Among Higher Education Faculty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting facts and figures on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Seems that Facebook is clearly the most used. Interesting lists of different responses to how they use various tools, also.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.facultyfocus.com/wp-content/uploads/images/2011-social-media-report.pdf</link>
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		<title>Computers In The University &#124; Gardner Writes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting look back at some early technology innovators that were looking at how "digital computers" could impact education.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/?p=1743&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=computers-in-the-university</link>
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		<title>More interaction, less lecturing impacts Purdue classes &#124; Journal and Courier &#124; jconline.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An example of the flipped classroom in the college setting. These approaches could also work in hybrid and even online learning. In fact, I could see the video lecture replaced with student-generated activities and content.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jconline.com/article/20120130/NEWS0501/201300315/More-interaction-less-lecturing-impacts-Purdue-classes</link>
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		<title>6 Technologies to Watch in Higher Ed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Horizon report is always interesting to read, even if it sometimes never seems to change. How many years can certain technologies stay one year away from adoption after all? But it is still a good summary of what people in the education world are i...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.convergemag.com/policy/6-Technologies-to-Watch-in-Higher-Ed.html?elq=7f4db50856ee48158faf315eb1e178f1</link>
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		<title>Social networked learning in complex information environments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Learning is changing, especially in Higher Education. I would argue that we have already been seeing these trends in HE for a long time now - but we're getting to a point where the reluctant and resistant need to get on board or be left behind.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2012/02/01/social-networked-learning-in-complex-information-environments/</link>
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