By Tony Bates, on December 18th, 2009
Robin Popow wrote this report for the BC Educational Technology Users Group:
Vancouver Community College has entered what appears to be its next phase of life with regards to educational technology. Over the past four years, we have gone from less than a dozen programs utilizing online environments to a robust [...]
By Tony Bates, on November 16th, 2009
As usual, George Siemen’s blog is being provocative in his November 10, 2009 posting: Futue of learning: LMS or SNS, in which he argues that Facebook is the model for education in the future, not Moodle. The discussion following his blog is also worth following.
My only comments on his blog:
1. Why does [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 28th, 2009
*** Canada Moot 2009: April 1 – 4, 2009 Edmonton, Alberta. Help spread the word! Please forward to your friends and colleagues ***
We’re excited — our Moot is just under 3 months away!!! The program committee has hit the new year running and we’re back at work!
1. Submit Your [...]
By Tony Bates, on November 1st, 2008
Guess, A. (2008) Outsourcing, Open Source and Budget Cuts Inside Higher Education, Oct 29.
Andy Guess reports on a presentation about the Campus Computing Project 2008 survey at the Educause 2008 conference. Highlights from Andy Guest’s report:
‘This year’s survey, culled from 531 respondents over the Web from September to October of this year, [...]
By Tony Bates, on October 30th, 2008
The oil and gas industry is a knowledge-intensive business. As one of the biggest players in the field, Royal Dutch Shell has traditionally set a strong emphasis on knowledge management and community collaboration to improve its operations. Since 1997, Shell has been utilising a variety of electronic tools to build a global network, triggering [...]
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