- The Wiki: An Environment For Scholarly Conversation and Publishing
(source: Scholarship 2.0, 14/09/08)

- Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge
(source: Educause, 16/09/08)
"Given the abundance of open education initiatives that aim to make educational assets freely available online, the time seems ripe to explore the potential of open education to transform the economics and ecology of education. Despite the diversity of tools and resources already available—from well-packaged course materials to simple games, for students, self-learners, faculty, and educational institutions—we have yet to take full advantage of shared knowledge about how these are being used, what local innovations are emerging, and how to learn from and build on the experiences of others. Opening Up Education argues that we must develop not only the technical capability but also the intellectual capacity for transforming tacit pedagogical knowledge into commonly usable and visible knowledge: by providing incentives for faculty to use (and contribute to) open education goods, and by looking beyond institutional boundaries to connect a variety of settings and open source entrepreneurs."

- Podcast: Supporting Academic Staff
(source: JISC, 17/09/08)
"A plethora of resources exist to support and enhance academic staff in their learning and teaching practices. With developing technologies, new learning approaches and changing expectations of learners, academic staff face added time-pressure in their quest to keep ahead in the learning and teaching practices and innovations. Themed syntheses of resources offer suitable avenues to the range available, providing openings to a wealth of information while recognizing the time limitations of today’s academic staff.
In this podcast Rebecca O’Brien provides examples of the range of resources available to academic staff in their practice in learning and teaching developments, giving some examples of the wealth of information in an area which is often raised as limiting developments in the sector."

- FreeCite
"FreeCite is an open-source application that parses document citations into fielded data. You can use it as a web application or a service. You can also download the source and run FreeCite on your own server. FreeCite is distributed under the MIT license."
(source: Catalogablog, 17/09/08)

- ScienceStage
"New online portal for science, academic teaching and practice, bridging significant gaps in scientific learning and research"

- New Social Network Hopes to Catalog All Researchers and Their Interests
(source: The Wired Campus, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 16/09/08)
"Richard Price, a research fellow at the University of Oxford’s All Souls College, is blasting an e-mail plea to every academic mailing list and blog that he can find asking academics to sign up for his new online directory of researchers worldwide. His goal is to create an online guide to who’s doing what, and where, so scholars can share information and collaborate."