Copy - Alternative to Dropbox

I use the free version of Dropbox to backup some of my files and give myself access to important documents from any of my computers. It's a great deal, but I frequently have to move files to keep under my 9.5 GB space limit. A new account on Dropbox starts with 2 GB of storage. I also use Google Drive and Microsoft SkyDrive, which offer similar features and a little more space.

If you aren't familiar with how these services work, the simple version is that they duplicate any file you add to them across all your devices plus their website. There are also additional features which make sharing files with others easy.

Dropbox also has integration with Moodle 2.x, which makes it very useful for adding files to your online class.

A new alternative to Dropbox/Google Drive/SkyDrive is Copy, which offers 15GB for free to start but will also add 5GB through a referral link like this one. So if you sign up for Copy, you get an additional 5GB and so do I. Copy works with MacOS, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS, so you can access your files from just about any device. The advantage with Copy is that it has all the necessary features, but gives you more space right at the start. If you sign up through the referral link, you will have 20GB to start with and then you can refer others and gain an additional 5GB for each referral.

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Learning to Teach Online - new online series from UNSW

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Download Moodle courses from the Open University

I was listening to the BBC's Digital Planet podcast this morning and they had an interesting segment about how a university in Brazil was making use of the resources from the OpenLearn project at the Open University in England. The project is similar to the Open CourseWare effort at MIT and elsewhere. In both cases, university courses are made available online and many include audio and video segments as well as the syllabus, assignments and so on. The big challenge is how to make use of these excellent materials. A persistent student might make their way through a cours e as a self-study, but I think they are more suited for modification by instructors who are teaching something similar. Maybe only a particular unit would fit into someone's course, but since these materials are offered under a Creative Commons license, they can be modified and re-used as you like. The big step (in my mind) with the OpenLearn materials is that many of them are available as Moodle courses. ...

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