Items to Share: 14 October

Education Focus

• 10,000 hours (Sam Shepherd's Blog) Interesting critique of the application of the Ericsson model to the development of teaching skills.

• Peer Assessment is Not an Elixir for All Group Work Challenges (Faculty Focus)

• MOOCs and exercise bikes – more in common than you'd think and Why MOOCs won't replace traditional instruction  (Inside Higher Ed) 

Other Business

• Behold Charles Laughton Delivering the Gettysburg Address in its Entirety in Ruggles of Red Gap (Open Culture) 

• Airline baggage tags: How their brilliant design gets bags from Point A to Point B. - Slate Magazine

• APA Style Blog: British Spellings That's a relief!

• As We May Think: A 1945 Essay on Information Overload, "Curation," and Open-Access Science (Brain Pickings) The Vannevar Bush essay often seen as prefiguring the internet.

• Spoof notices on the Tube

• The spork’s weird history - Salon.com

• Philip Hensher: Why handwriting matters (Books; The Observer)