Normal service resumes
My apologies for the very spotty service over the last month or so. I returned a couple of days ago from a three week...
Trying to save administrative costs
Kiley, K. (2011) Where universities can be cut Inside Higher Education, September 16
A comprehensive article on efforts made by three large US research universities...
About Mozilla Badges
© The Tree Maker, 2011
I'm currently on holiday so shouldn't even be logging on, but I want to capture an important development that needs...
A busy summer
You probably haven't noticed while you were on the beach or touring foreign parts this summer that I have posted very few posts in...
Should Apple pander to (higher) education?
Joshua Kim in his always interesting blog for Inside Higher Education wrote:
We'd be overjoyed If Apple created teaching apps, or even a full online...
Blackboard Collaborate 11: a step forward in synchronous learning (or plus ça change….)
Audio-graphics, 1983
I first got involved in audio-graphics in 1980 (yes, that's right, 31 years ago - I'm very old, and so is audio-conferencing). Paul...
Why the current professional development model is broken
Introduction
The faculty development workshops and conferences have ended, and most faculty and instructors have headed off for a well earned vacation. Many thousands will...
Marshall McLuhan and his relevance to teaching with technology
Today (July 21) is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marshall McLuhan. Although I was not consciously aware of it at the time,...
Thoughts on the history and future of distance education
Capella University is a for-profit online university based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It offers a graduate course on the Delivery of Distance Education as part...
5. Models for selecting media and technology: 5. Media or technology?
This is the fifth post in a series on selecting and using technology for teaching and learning. The first four were Models for selecting and...