DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
The New Zealand government is supporting a Patents Bill which will ban the patenting of software in New Zealand. To clarify, embedded software may be OK, but it appears that patent applications related to pure software will not succeed.
http://thenextweb.com/au/2010/07/17/new-zealand-to-ban-software-patents/…
2010 marks the first year in which Lifeway College in New Zealand has adopted Moodle. The result? Creating the most effective 3D visualization & animation education qualification possible.
http://www.voxy.co.nz/technology/anywhere-anytime-teaching-lifeway-college-adopting-moodle/5/55244…