The new, hot off the open access press, issue 3 of my Meta EdTech journal is out. It features five articles, including an interesting one from Australia comparing the use of games with traditional lectures. Perhaps surprisingly games don't come out that well, although there are some benefits. I think this just demonstrates that it is always a more complex issue than we first assume – surprise, learners are not all the same, and what works well for some may not work well for others. There's also a quick overview of learning analytics from Erik Duval (useful to stick under the nose of one's boss), a look at how Athabasca…

You may recall that prior to Christmas I set up the Meta EdTech Journal, using Google's Annotum. It is a meta journal, where I periodically trawl through open access educational technology journals (using George Veletsianos's list), and create an 'issue' which links to a selection of these. Each has a comment from me, setting out what I think is interesting about the article. The second issue is now out, with, I think, a good range of articles. Please let me know if it's of any use whatsoever. And remember – if you want to curate/edit a special edition, just let me know. You need to be able to find 6…