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Site hosting the Oxford Uni Dept for Continuing Education's map resources - mostly based on the Google Maps API. Interesting examples, especially the Viking ones

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From Mashable

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It's not the prettiest piece of dataviz and the data is from US institutions only but it's a revealing picture.

I was surprised that Foursquare was the "3rd most successful" social network in this area. (a: not quite sure what that means and b: thought it would be Twitter - I see 4sq as quite a marginal platform, might have to revise that)

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A look at how some US unis are creating their own apps to allow students to access information about courses/campus etc.

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Download UK university statistics and compare student satisfaction ratings

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Bookmarked this as a nice example of a group blog from the Sustainability team at Newcastle Uni.

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NMA report on Bucks New Uni's use of social media to build an onlie presence and manage their reputation.

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A series of 4 free to download ebooks under a Creative Commons license on the themes of instructional design, emerging technologies, mobile learning and theory and practice of online learning, all in the context of distance learning.

Published by Athabasca University.

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Innovations sometimes happen in times of crisis or in response to changing circumstance. This is a breakdown of a debate hosted by JISC and the Guardian about how universities could change and collaborate more in an environment where funding is being squeezed and the nature of what universities are actually for is being challenged.

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