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Dynamics of Supporting Sakai Through Local and Global Collaboration
"This ECAR research bulletin discusses the adjustments that the Indiana University information technology organization made, and continues to make, in order to support membership in Sakai."
The State of Learning Management in Higher Education Systems
"With the purchase of Angel by Blackboard, the LMS market is changing rapidly. You need to be aware of what's happening and how it affects your current and future plans"
Second Life Outsider art show seen a success
"Winn's talk tied the artwork exhibited in Second Life to the concept of an artwork's “aura,” as first discussed by Walter Benjamin in the 1930s. “As mechanical reproduction of art became more prevalent, Benjamin noted that something unique is lost if you only know an artwork through its reproduction. "
Here, There, & Everywhere
"Electronic portfolios can follow a student beyond graduation into careers and other life pursuits-- but not if the university can't guarantee access, or if the data won't transfer from one system to another. A look at how ePortfolios can be true repositories of lifelong learning."
Students, that tweet may be your professor
""When teachers are everywhere, what is the role of the university?" Noah asked faculty members at Thursday's social media discussion."
Teaching Teachers to Use Blended Learning
"Pedagogically, CSU Interact supports a social constructivist approach to e-learning, which suggests that learning is a social process and that students construct meaning from their own experiences."
UNC Sakai Pilot Evaluation: Results Summary
"When we published the Sakai Pilot Evaluation Final Report, we knew that most people would prefer a visual summary rather than reading the 74-page document or even the Executive Summary."
Colleges to Try 'Crowdsourcing' Their IT Help Desks
"The new database—being discussed by leaders at a handful of universities—will let users rate the quality of answers and highlight which contributors are the most reliable. Anybody, not just Al the IT Guy, can play the part of techno-wizard."
Hotseat at Purdue University
"Hotseat, a social networking-powered mobile Web application, creates a collaborative classroom, allowing students to provide near real-time feedback during class and enabling professors to adjust the course content and improve the learning experience. Students can post messages to Hotseat using their Facebook or Twitter accounts, sending text messages, or logging in to the Hotseat Web site."
Blackboard’s Response to Open Source: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
"As I noted recently, the University of North Carolina (a Blackboard customer) reported highly favorable results of their pilot study of Sakai, with an outcome of further investigation into Sakai as a full replacement of Blackboard as their primary LMS. It turns out that this was following on the heels of a similar study done by the North Carolina Community College system favorably comparing Moodle to Blackboard."
Webfolio, un nouvel outil d’accompagnement
L’étudiant a désormais la possibilité, tout au long de ses études, de bien définir son projet professionnel
University Makes Twitter a Required Class for Journalism Students
"According to a senior lecturer at the University, “Some students’ tweets are not as in depth as you might like.” The solution? Make Twitter writing practice a compulsory part of the course curriculum for would-be journalists."
Texas Universities to build a 49-island archipelago in SL
"The project described here uses a low-cost, online virtual world environment for student learning, research, collaboration, and operations. Hosting almost 200,000 students and 7,500 faculty, the UT System has funded the creation of a virtual 49-island archipelago in Second Life (SL), with three islands per campus and one central island for System-wide collaboration and administrative activities. "
Oct. 23-Nov. 13: UD to host international art show in Second Life
"From Oct. 23 through Nov. 13, the University of Delaware will host an international show of “Outsider Art” in the Second Life virtual community."
P2PU - Peer 2 Peer University
"The mission of P2PU is to leverage the power of the Internet and social software to enable communities of people to support learning for each other. P2PU combines open educational resources, structured courses, and recognition of knowledge/learning in order to offer high-quality low-cost education opportunities. It is run and governed by volunteers."
UF Adopts Sakai to be New E-Learning System
"After an 8-month evaluation process, the University of Florida has selected the open source Sakai course management system to be the new course management system. By choosing an open source system, UF joins a growing trend among colleges and universities."
UNC Chapel Hill - Sakai Pilot Final Report available
"We are pleased to announce that the Sakai Pilot Final Report is available for your review! The 74-page PDF (3.2 MB) provides a wealth of data collected during Fall 2008 and Spring 2009."
What CAN you do with copyrighted material?
"According to Carl Asti, Director of IT-University Media Services, UD pays licensing fees to ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.) and SESAC (Society of European Stage Authors and Composers) for limited rights to use protected media. "
Need4Feed
"Need4feed is a Twitter analytics tool that analyzes tweets within the context of a conference hash tag - in this case #heweb09. It uses an algorithm that examines responses to specific tweets, and builds a popularity ranking for that tweet. This ranking identifies those tweets that may have broad appeal for others using the same hash tag."
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