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2011-11-22 13:24:27     About | Learning Resource Metadata Initiative

http://www.lrmi.net/about

The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a pr... common vocabulary for describing educational content. Wh... benefits to such a project, the main goal of the initiat... end-user search and discovery of learning resources.

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2011-08-15 17:15:51     Times Higher Education - Leader: Hours and hours of reckoning

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?...#.Tkks...

In higher education, it's not how much time you spend wi... what you do with it that should count
What is a contact hour? How does a lecture with 70 other ...

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2011-05-12 09:53:02     Let Kids Play With Fire, and Other Rules for Good Parenting - Veronique Greenwood - Life - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/05/l.../238601/

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... w up, with a little common sense and a lot of curiosity.

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2011-01-27 08:24:56     The Associated Press: Young inventors prompt colleges to revamp rules

http://www.google.com/...qM5ilfjD3zn6ImYtcZIVjuam7MztG8A?...

Young inventors prompt colleges to revamp rules
(AP) – 2 days ago
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Tony Brown didn't set out to over ...
The University of Missouri student came up with an idea ...
But the invention also raised a perplexing question when ...

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2011-01-06 20:44:20     BBC News - Furore over 'censored' edition of Huckleberry Finn

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12126700

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2011-01-06 13:12:33     The Grim Threat to British Universities by Simon Head | The New York Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/.../grim-threat-british-universities/

The British universities, Oxford and Cambridge included,... from a system of state control that is undermining the o... which their worldwide reputation depends: the caliber of... scholarship.

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2010-12-27 10:36:09     Blackawton bees — Biology Letters

http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/...sbl.2010.1056.full

Background Real science has the potential to not only am... transform the way one thinks of the world and oneself. T... process of science is little different from the deeply r... processes of play. Play enables humans (and other mammal...
Principal f

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2010-10-28 11:30:30     Molly | The open source mobile portal

http://mollyproject.sourceforge.net/

Molly is a framework for the rapid development of inform... portals targeted at mobile internet devices. The framewo... “batteries included” philosophy, featuring a wide va... applications and connectors to common and standards-base... including t

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2009-11-07 09:44:20     BBC NEWS | Education | Universities 'worth £59bn to UK'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8340552.stm

Universities in the UK are worth £59bn for the economy,... the economic impact of higher education.
The report, based on figures for 2007-8, highlights the ...
Universities created, directly or indirectly, over 668,5 ...
The figures follow the launch o

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2009-10-17 15:22:10     The Open PhD – What a Concept « Open Ph.D. – An Experiment in Higher Learning

http://openphd.wordpress.com/...the-open-phd-what-a-concept/

I am going to create my own Ph.D. program via open educa... courseware. My degree will be in Educational Technology... in (what else?) Open Education as the Great Equalizer. ... my blog states: it will be all the learning, with none o... “doc”-u

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2009-04-28 11:33:42     Oxford University reveals it is losing £8,000 per student as tuition fees debate begins | Education | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/.../tuition-fees-oxford-university

The disclosure comes as a poll showed half of students i...
According to a survey of 1,026 students, published by th ...
Students are choosing universities where they can live a ...
Close to a third (27%) of poorer students choose univers ...
The survey

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2009-04-28 11:31:14     Are loans from the IMF preventing the poorest countries from spending on children's education? | Education | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2.../imf-loans-education

If the world raised £11bn, every child could go to scho... seem all that much when the UK government manages to rai... billions to rescue its banking sector?

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