By Tony Bates, on September 2nd, 2010
Kolowich, S. (2010) No laughing matter Inside Higher Education, August 4
In case, like me, you missed this gem during the holidays, it is well worth looking up. Randall Munroe did a cartoon on his popular Web comic xkcd. The cartoon shows a Venn diagram with two overlapping circles — one labeled “Things On [...]
By Tony Bates, on July 11th, 2010
Kolowich, S. (2010) Blackboard’s big buy Inside Higher Education, July 8
This article leaves me as depressed as a Netherlands soccer supporter. Elluminate follows another Canadian product (WebCT) into Blackboard’s maws, and Wimba as well.
I’ve deliberately waited a few days before commenting on this, because my immediate reaction was unprintable. At the end [...]
By Tony Bates, on June 17th, 2010
© Paul Stacey, 2010
Stacey, P. (2010) Archtecting EdTech Musings on the edtech frontier, June 7
Paul Stacey gave a fascinating presentation at the ETUG conference in Victoria last week, based on the blog above. Paul ‘thought it might be interesting to map out some of the major structural [...]
By Tony Bates, on May 12th, 2010
I try not to use this site to promote particular products or services, but occasionally something that is likely to be of genuine interest to readers comes up – hence my previous posting on the Canadian launch of the iPad.
In a similar vein, the development of the Kuali consortium and its goal of [...]
By Tony Bates, on April 27th, 2010
Schaffhauser, D. (21010) Florida State U Transforms Reporting with Business Intelligence Campus Technology, April 26
This article shows how business intelligence (BI) tools have been implemented at Florida State University, initially for HR and Finance, and for research project management, and now for the student information system.
Why is this important for e-learning? Because [...]
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