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Richard Baraniuk is a Rice University professor with a giant vision: to create a free, global online education system. In this presentation, he introduces Connexions, the open-access publishing system that’s changing the landscape of education by providing free coursework and educational materials to everyone in the world. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 19:18)

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This presentation was given by Kathryn Greenhill, co-ordinator of the Australian Libraries Building on Cybrary City in Second Life to the National Library of Australia. It has the rather snappy title of:
Flying Librarians of Oz: What’s all the fuss about Second Life and what’s it got to do with libraries?
If you’re a librarian and [...]

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 Here is an interesting video on Web 2.0.

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In this short clip, Ali G manages to get one view of education from Sir Rhodes Boyson, former conservative MP for Brent North and Chairman of the National Council for Educational Standards.
Ali G on education

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Welcome to the midden, a blog dedicated to discussion on the use of technology to bring about educational change. Much of the educational system now finds itself in a situation where most of its structures and systems are in need of a serious overhall in order for them to meet the needs of today’s learners. [...]

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