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Die erste Frankfurter Bildungsmesse und Fachtagung fraMediale15' wurde erfolgreich abgeschlossen. 230 angemeldete Gäste hatten die Gelegenheit die Messestände zu besuchen und sich auf der Fachtagung zu informieren.

In einem kleinen Filmclip erläutert Alec Couros (@courosa) die Funktionsweise von Twitter und zeigt ein Beispiel der Anwendung durch Lehrende. Twitter wird ganz ohne Worte erklärt. Gelungen!

For the educator resources on the internet are often like a double sided sword. On one side they might be very successfully applied in the teaching process, on the other side the licensing is not often clearly expressed, or access to the resource might be restricted, or even prohibitively expensive. Here freely available open educational resources become increasingly more relevant - not only for the process of formal teaching and learning in institutions dedicated to this task, but more important for self-guided learning also in the context of professional development.

Steve Wheeler published a post about the new concept of e-Learning 3.0. He described four key drivers that will enable this change:

During the Easter holydays I spent a couple days in a rural area. I had planned to take my laptop along and to connect to the internet using a standard dial-up connection. I had done it last year, it was slow but feasable, if the motivation was high enough.

A week ago I posted my list of portals of recorded academic lectures and talks with free and open access. More portals have been added by readers using my entry form. Thank you all! Here is a revised list of the portals. I did arrange them alphabetically.

• Academic Earth
  Quote:Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars
  Many different subjects.

In today's lecture we talked about the possibility to freely access recorded lectures over the internet. This can be an alternative for students, if