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A student-centered LMS on Facebook

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Kolowich, S. (2010) Mixing work and play on Facebook Inside Higher Education, October 6 Article about Mixable, an LMS developed at Purdue University that: invites students...

E-learning simply explained: a video

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The United Nations University has released what it calls a 'sticky concepts' video on e-learning. From the UNU: If you are a newbie in the field...

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 corporate innovation in e-learning

Galt, V. (2010) How to bake agility into corporate DNA Globe and Mail, May 20 In my blog on Six Priorities for Canadian e-learning in...

Preliminary book review: An Introduction to Distance Education

Cleveland-Innes, M. and Garrison, R. (eds.) 2010 An Introduction to Distance Education: Understanding Teaching and Learning in a New Era New York/Abingdon UK: Routledge This...

Open source LMSs for small colleges: 3 cases

Briggs, L. (2010) Moving to an Open Source LMS: 3 Stories Campus Technology, April 7 This article describes how three small colleges migrated to either...

What do instructors need to know about teaching with technology?

I believe that we will see no real innovation, no fundamental change, in post-secondary education, at least from within, unless all instructors have basic...

A personal view of e-learning at the University of British Columbia

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The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (home of OLT) It's now seven years since I resigned as Director of Distance Education and Technology at UBC,...

Journal of Educational Technology and Society: Vol. 12, No.4

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The latest issue of "Journal of Educational Technology & Society" is now available on the ETS Journal Web Site. This issue contains 12 selected papers...

Six priorities for Canadian e-learning in 2010

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Summary of my priorities 1. A requirement for all newly appointed full-time instructors in public Canadian post-secondary educational institutions to have a formal certification in...