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Why use a CMS?
"Is it possible to conduct an effective online program without a centrally administered course management system?"
An Antidote for Web Overload
"With a hunger for explanatory guidance amid the raging storm of Web news flashes, a journalist stresses context to attract digital users. "
Active Learning Classrooms Pilot Evaluation at the University of Minnesota
The goal for these new learning spaces was to create a student-centered, integrated, and active learning
space using flexible design and innovative construction techniques. These pilot learning spaces provide new and innovative classrooms, demonstrate new flexible classroom construction techniques, and allow faculty and students to experience and assess new classroom designs and pedagogy.
Using a wiki to document Isaak, Brock University’s Sakai-Based LMS
"The web is the best tool for infinite access to the same resource and to that end the CTLET look to Wikis to document things like WebCT, Sakai/Isaak, Brock University on iTunes U, etc. This decision to use a wiki was because of the constantly evolving nature of these teaching tools and the scarce resources of the Centre: It was just more timely to write-up articles that explain things or to write a how-tos that were sufficient and then post them. "
Google Apps for Education is coming to UD
"Students will use Gmail to read and write all of their udel.edu e-mail. They will keep their udel.edu e-mail addresses, but access to their mail will be through Google's Gmail interface."
Simonides: A faculty-led, student-centered technology initiative
"In the spring of 2009, the Liberal Studies Program within the College of Arts and Science partnered with Information Technology Services (ITS) to develop Simonides, a web-based student portfolio of tools that is unique in its flexibility and academic focus."
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."
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