A weekly publication of the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University ... a diary of events and seminar abstracts from Stanford. The Diary bit comes at the start of a fairly long 'page' ... scroll down to the abstracts - they can sometimes open up interesting trains of thought ...

The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education
"Observatory Reports provide in-depth analysis of the major issues in borderless higher education. ... reports are commissioned from external experts from around the world ... reports combine descriptive information (eg news on the latest developments), strategic information (eg an attempt to explore rationales, decision-making processes and organisational change) and reflection (eg standing back from events to consider the public role of higher education). ..."

Observatory Reports are only available to staff of subscribing institutions (the OU does) ... recent reports include "Ubiquitous Computing in Higher Education", "Staff Development: the key to using ICT appropriately in higher education?" and "Improving Quality and Reducing Costs: Designs for Effective Learning Using Information Technology".

Resonance 104.4 fm - Home Page
'Resonance 104.4fm is London's first radio art station, brought to you by London Musicians' Collective.' A superbly strange collection of sounds and opportunities to hear material from places that you could never dream of ... listen on the radio or on the net.

Enhancing Teaching-Learning Environments in Undergraduate Courses
ETL Introduction
Home of the people (Noel Entwistle et al) that have done so much with the:

• Approaches to Studying Inventory (ASI),
• Revised Approaches to Studying Inventory (RASI),
• Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST)

stuff.

Pixus - The Image Portal
this looks to be potentially a very useful source of strange 'academic' images ...

MIT OpenCourseWare | OCW Home
Rather a large repository of course ready material here ... MIT may have started something!