Why most universities have such lousy web sites

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 [...]

Blackboard acquires Elluminate and Wimba: the end of LMSs?

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 [...]

The governance of educational technology

© 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 [...]

Open source software for research administration

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 [...]

Using business intelligence tools at Florida State University

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 [...]