Friday, March 29, 2024
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Instructional design: the times they are a’changing

  Last week I attended a very interesting workshop, called Just ID,  at the University of British Columbia. The workshop was organized with the support of...

DE in Community Colleges in the USA: 2010 in review

Lokken, F. (2011) Trends in eLearning: Tracking the Impact of eLearning at Community Colleges: 2010 Distance Education Survey Results Washington DC: Instructional Technology Council. This carefully conducted...

Book: Managing Technology in Higher Education now available

Bates, A. and Sangrà, A. (2011) Managing Technology in Higher Education: Strategies for Transforming Teaching and Learning San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Co. Now out!...

Blackboard diversifies – but will it work?

 Kolowich, S. (2011) Blackboard's next phase Inside Higher Education, February 22 I'm catching up a bit on some old news feeds, and thought this was...

Research on Virtual Learning Environments

Smart, C. (2011) VLEs at the heart of curriculum innovation, JISC e-Learning Focus, February 7 This article looks at four projects using VLEs in the...

Blackboard gets into data analytics

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Schaffhauser, D. (2011) Blackboard buys into data analytics Campus Technology, February 8 Interesting report on the purchase by Blackboard of iStrategy, a data warehouse and...

e-learning outlook for 2011

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What's in my crystal ball for e-learning in 2011? (For how well I did in my predictions for 2010, see e-learning retrospective - how...

Video on understanding the difference between an LMS and PLEs

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PLEs meet LMSs This 4 min 30 sec YouTube video is an 'animated' chat about the differences between Learning Management Systems (the man) and Personal...

Innovative e-learning in the Vancouver area

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I worry about the often negative tone of many of my posts. It was therefore a great pleasure to attend the joint Justice Institute...

A vision for course management systems

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Mazar, R. (2010) Episode 3: campus courseware University Affairs, November 8 Rochelle Mazar, an Emerging Technologies Librarian at the University of Toronto Mississauga, provides in...