Recent LMS Selections Hint at Continuing Market Cha

San Jose State University letter from the Provost

Here's a look at how the conversion from Blackboard to Canvas looks (folder to page) and some insights on how I've been redesigning around a page structure (Canvas) instead of a folder structure (Blackboard). To move my course, I exported from Blackboard, imported that file into Canvas, then waited about two hours for the conversion.

2012 Learning Management System (LMS) Evaluation

What training resources does Instructure provide their clients? Instructure is working hard to provide clients with materials that will make it even easier to train Instructors, LMS Admins, and Students on the basics of Canvas. Suggestions for improving or adding to these materials are always welcome.

The Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education asked SRI to talk to industry experts and convene a panel of researchers to understand the state of the art, the state of the practice, and the emerging field of learning analytics and educational data mining.

Stats about college graduation rates by state. A ton of information...haven't had the time to determine how accurate it is yet or their POV

Taking Diigo Beyond the Bookmark Books to Read List v

Abstract: Learning!analytics!is!a!significant!area!of!technologyHenhanced!learning!that!has! emerged!during!the!last!decade. This!review!of!the!field!begins!with!an!examination!of!the! technological,!educational!and!political!factors!that!have!driven!the!development!of analytics!in!educational!settings.!It!goes!on!to!chart!the!emergence!of!learning!analytics,! including!their origins!in!the!20 th century,!the!development!of!dataHdriven!analytics,!the!rise! of!learningHfocused!perspectives!and!the!influence!of!national!economic!concerns.!It!next! focuses!on!the!relationships between!learning!analytics,!educational!data!mining!and! academic!analytics.!Finally,!it!sets!out!the!current!state!of!learning!analytics!research,!and! identifies!a!series!of future!challenges.

Authors Who Skype With Classes & Book Clubs (for free!) 

Volume 2 * Number 1 * 2012

Twitter 101 for Conference Backchannels

Bb to Moodle documentation wiki

The mission of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is to promote open scholarly discourse around critical and creative uses of digital technology in teaching, learning, and research. Educational institutions have often embraced instrumentalist conceptions and market-driven implementations of technology that overdetermine its uses in academic environments. Such approaches underestimate the need for critical engagement with the integration of technological tools into pedagogical practice. The JITP will endeavor to counter these trends by recentering questions of pedagogy in our discussions of technology in higher education. The journal will also work to change what counts as scholarship - and how it is presented, disseminated, and reviewed - by allowing contributors to develop their ideas, publish their work, and engage their readers using multiple formats. We are committed first and foremost to teaching and learning, and intend that the journal itself - both in process and in product - provide opportunities to reveal, reflect on, and revise academic publication and classroom practice.

A student guide to studying online - What you need to know before you enroll for an online course 

I am conducting a series of workshops in Florida and was asked to share a rubric to help teachers evaluate educational apps as part of the workshop. In 2010 Harry Walker developed a rubric, and I used his rubric (with some modifications by Kathy Schrock) as the basis for mine.

The Modern Language Association likes to keep up with the times. As we all know, some information breaks first or only on Twitter and a good academic needs to be able to cite those sources. So, the MLA has devised a standard format that you should keep in mind. Its form is:

Nice brief on academic blogging complete with bibliograohy