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Using Cloud Services for Library IT Infrastructure - 0 views

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Cloud IT ILS Website

shared by fleschnerj on 22 Nov 11 - Cached
  • fleschnerj on 22 Nov 11
     
    Cloud computing comes in several different forms and this article documents how service, platform, and infrastructure forms of cloud computing have been used to serve library needs. Following an overview of these uses the article discusses the experience of one library in migrating IT infrastructure to a cloud environment and concludes with a model for assessing cloud computing.
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A Brief Introduction to Omeka - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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archives killer app services cloud

shared by fleschnerj on 10 May 12 - No Cached
  • fleschnerj on 10 May 12
     
    If we ever get into the archive and/or Institutional repository business, this would be a killer app. Yup, it would all live in the cloud.
  • Sara Thompson on 11 May 12
     
    Yep, some of the examples from other ProfHacker posts about class assignments where students curate their own courses = way cool.
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Libraries at Webscale: An OCLC Report [OCLC - Reports] - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 05 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 05 Dec 11
     
    "This discussion document, Libraries at Webscale, explores the impact of the Web on our rapidly changing information landscape, and presents an overview of the opportunities and challenges that operating in a Web-connected world provides for libraries and library users. The document presents a case for the opportunities that Webscale can afford libraries and the OCLC cooperative, and provides context for OCLC's strategies to support libraries at Webscale."
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The Touchy-Feely Future Of Technology : NPR - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 04 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • But the benefits of having iPads in the classroom don't come free. Teachers say you have to invest time into the technology in order to get something out of it, which means much of the iPad's usefulness will depend on the applications both teachers and publishers discover as adoption grows.
  • Four Ways Technology Will Change Our Lives In The Future Technology experts Mike McSherry, CEO of Swype, and Bill Buxton make their predictions for where technology will go next.
  • 1. Gesture Technology
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  • 2. Personal Profile Models
  • 3. The Cloud
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A Post-LMS World (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 1 views

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future education LMS moodle technology software edtech

shared by Sara Thompson on 02 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • According to Babson Survey Research Group, 65 percent of all reporting higher education institutions said that online learning was a critical part of their long-term strategy, and over 6.1 million students took at least one online course during the fall 2010 term—an increase of 560,000 students over the previous year.
  • A post-LMS world does not suggest that the LMS is obsolete but, rather, that the practice of evaluating learning outcomes through a traditional LMS as the sole means for knowledge acquisition is obsolete. The original design of the LMS was transactional and largely administrative in nature, hence the “M” in “LMS.” The function of the traditional LMS is to simplify how learning is scheduled, deployed, and tracked as a means to organize curricula and manage learning materials.
  • LMS 3.0 design focuses on four essential applications: learning grids; e-learning intelligence; content clouds; and open architecture.
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  • Effective LMS 3.0 learning grids create and inspire greater user independence and self-governance to facilitate effective content-creation capacities and new crowd-sourced intellectual property through the personalization of a vast array of information sources. LMS 3.0, properly designed, creates reliable content that facilitates learning through organized interaction and communications processes that include the widest-possible spectrum of points of view.
  • LMS 3.0 information architecture plays an increasingly important role as the gravitational pull for core strategies in assessment, engagement, retention, and outcomes.
  • Tracking learning events is crucial, but ultimately faculty are interested in the kind of learning that yields positive behavioral changes reflected in outcomes and a mastery level leading to a seamless transition to the workforce.
  • LMS 3.0 design expands functionality to include open, flexible digital repositories with components that add context through outcomes measurement, social curation, reporting, analytics, and extensive sharing capabilities.
  • Higher education is increasingly embracing a more open future, and next-generation LMS design needs to commit to an open ideology.
  • Moving from LMS 1.0 environments that do not offer long-standing, established community contributor models—from the perspective of both source code and open content—to a truly open environment will be a critical success benchmark for the post-LMS era.
  • Effective e-learning design, as a lowest common denominator, will embrace nimble, interoperable, modular infrastructure in ways that make learning contemporary, relevant, and engaging.
  • Sara Thompson on 02 Feb 12
     
    An interesting opinion piece on the future of the LMS.  Try reading this and replacing "LMS" with "library database" ... what would that look like? 
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Microsoft announces new version of Office - 0 views

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Microsoft Office

shared by fleschnerj on 16 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • fleschnerj on 16 Jul 12
     
    Available today, the new suite is considered by CEO Steve Ballmer "the most ambitious version of Office we've ever done." Microsoft has pulled back the curtains on the latest version of its Office suite. At a press conference today, CEO Steve Ballmer announced the new version, noting that a preview edition of the cloud-based Office 365 edition will be available for people to try out today.
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Microsoft launches no holds barred anti-Google campaign [video] - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 22 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 22 Feb 12
     
    "Googlighting Stranger" ... to the tune of the theme song from the old Moonlighting TV show.  Love that. Also love that Microsoft feels this threatened. 
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