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Great article by Audrey Watters!

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For faculty Breakdown of Google v Canvas

Good Q&A about exporting Canvas eportfolios and strategies for importing into other systems

Student example

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Higher education conferences over the past few years have been full of presentations, papers and panels on the processes involved in migrating a campus and its people to Google Apps for Education. While it is useful to hear about marketing tchotchkes, data validation, and the pros and cons of web clients, what seems to get ignored is the process that led to the decision to move to Google Apps in the first place. At North Carolina State University, where students were already using Google Apps, the decision to move employees involved almost as much time, effort and heartache as the technical migration. As the users saw it, they had a working system, even if that system only worked because of huge expenditures of time and money both on the backend server maintenance and the client need to implement terribly complex workarounds for simple functionality. The end result: a 94-page white paper and the realization that it's hard to sell ice to Eskimos1 , even if you show them that their ice has already melted. This paper and presentation will discuss the information gathering and needs assessment done by NC State prior to the decision to move employees to Google Apps, and the successes and difficulties involved.

sample UW student eportflio

UW student sample eportfolio

Dr. George Hillman sample Canvas eportfolio

The use of technology to deliver instruction is an idea whose time has come - though the extent of its use varies greatly. At some institutions, professors do little more than use learning management systems to record attendance and grades and to communicate with students. At the other end of the scale, millions of students study entirely online.

"UNESCO's Open Access (OA) Curriculum is now online"

The Marlborough Project The Innovation Effect

"Babson Survey Research Group (BSRG) just released its annual survey of online learning in US higher education (press release here). This year they have moved from use of survey methodology for the online enrollment section to use of IPEDS distance education data. Russ Poulin from WCET and I provided commentary on the two data sources as an appendix to the study."

OER National Science Digital Library: science, tech, engineering, & math ed #STEM nsdl.oercommons.org via @holden

Do Learners Really Know Best? Urban Legends in Education Paul A. Kirschner

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