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askBU Open Visit askBU at The Base, Poole House on Talbot Campus or in Bournemouth House, Lansdowne Campus. askBU Students Service Resources Close Email Your BU Email Account myBU myBU Web BU Website Print Print Account BURO BURO Student Union BU Student Union Library Resources Library Resources Google Google Information Open Current Students Current Students Social Open Keep connected to your mates. Jump to the key networking sites below. Bebo Bebo Facebook Facebook LinkedIn LinkedIn MySpace MySpace Welcome to the Student Portal. Welcome to the Bournemouth University Student Portal. Focusing on student support and guidance together with social and leisure activities, the student portal brings together all of the resources and online services you need during your studies. Having problems logging in? If so then please see our logging in tips page. If you are a returning student, you can complete online registration by logging into the portal (above) and clicking the 'Returning Students' blue box below.

Portal Integration Student portals are becoming the place for student materials and council portals are becoming the hub of all public services. Portal Integration mean users no longer need to remember multiple passwords to login to multiple systems to access institutions services. Yet often valuable library services are missing from this new first point of interaction with students and citizens. Providing library information such as reservations waiting collection, library fines and which books are on loan to the user; Portal integration offers several key outcomes: * Improved user experience * Promotes the online visibility of the library service Talis have developed a complete solution that enables library information to be integrated with major portal solutions such as: * Microsoft Sharepoint * Students/campus portals (uPortal, Moodle etc) * Virtual Learning Environments (Blackboard) What our Portal Integration customers think: "The integration with Talis Keystone has enabled us to deliver a seamless service to staff and students visiting us via the University's portal. We are delighted that our efforts are available on the Talis Developer Network to help other libraries, and look forward to benefiting from their contributions to this open community in the future." Lorraine Beard, Head of Information Services at The University of Manchester

Thank You for visiting UK Student - UK Largest Student Community Portal offering Student Forum, Student Links, Academic Directory, and other information useful for Students. This is a NON-Commercial Project. UK Student Portal is being recommended to students by numerous Universities including Manchester Metropolitan University, Heriot-Watt University, Brunel University, University of Dundee, York University, University of Toronto, University of Greenwich, University of Sunderland, University of Worcester, University of Minnesota, University of Belgrad, Uppsala University, University of Arizona, Edith Cowan University and other institutions. For full listing please Click Here. Academic Directory is, probably, the key element of this web site. Ever wondered what tutors really want from you when asking you to write an essay, coursework, report or dissertation? How to do effective Presentations, how not to Plagiarise and how to make your Group really WORK . Find answers to these and many other questions HERE. And, finally, don't forget to have a look at the Glossary of Task Words before you start writing your assignment - your tutor may have made it a bit more complex than you think...

uPortal uPortal is a free, sharable portal under development by institutions of higher-education. This group sees an institutional portal as an abridged and customized version of the institutional Web presence... a "pocket-sized" version of the campus Web. Portal technology adds "customization" and "community" to the campus Web presence. Customization allows each user to define a unique and personal view of the campus Web. Community tools, such as chat, forums, survey, and so on, build relationships among campus constituencies. uPortal is an open-standard effort using Java, XML, JSP and J2EE. It is a collaborative development project with the effort shared among several of the JA-SIG member institutions. You may download uPortal and use it on your site at no cost.

Welcome to the University's Personal Information System. These pages allow you to access your own information, as stored by the University. The system ensures that the data we store is accurate - feedback is encouraged and links allow you to inform us of updates and changes. Check the message board for updates.

About Ivy Tech Community College Ivy Tech Community College is the nation's largest state-wide community college with single accreditation. It is the state's second largest public post-secondary institution serving more than 111,000 students a year. While our students enjoy the benefits of a large institution, with 23 campuses throughout the state and an average class size of 22, students find personal attention close to home at Ivy Tech Community College. Ivy Tech is the state's most affordable college. Students can earn a degree for less than $6,000. And with credits that transfer, students can save money by completing the first two years of a four-year degree at Ivy Tech. Accelerated, Certified Training (ACT) is delivered by Ivy Tech Community College's Department of Workforce and Economic Development. It offers local affordable solutions for Indiana business and industry training needs. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

Caspian Learning has produced a useful taxonomy of immersive learning simulations in their white paper Serious Games in Defence Education (Word or PDF, 4MB). Although the paper addresses a single vertical market, the taxonomy is of general interest.

The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On An MS-Word version of this essay is available at http://www.downes.ca/files/future2008.doc In the summer of 1998, over two frantic weeks in July, I wrote an essay titled The Future of Online Learning. (Downes, 1998) At the time, I was working as a distance education and new media design specialist at Assiniboine Community College, and I wrote the essay to defend the work I was doing at the time. "We want a plan," said my managers, and so I outlined the future as I thought it would - and should - unfold. In the ten years that have followed, this vision of the future has proven to be remarkably robust. I have found, on rereading and reworking the essay, that though there may have been some movement in the margins, the overall thrust of the paper was essentially correct. This gives me confidence in my understanding of those forces and trends that are moving education today. In this essay I offer a renewal of those predictions. I look at each of the points I addressed in 1998, and with the benefit of ten year's experience, recast and rewrite each prediction. This essay is not an attempt to vindicate the previous paper - time has done that - but to carry on in the same spirit, and to push that vision ten years deeper into the future.

I've been preparing a class session on communities of practice this weekend, and it's been underscoring for me just how important people are to an effective learning environment. We're independent adults, and we like to think of learning as something that each of us does for ourselves, but all the terrific resources in the world can't hold a candle to the power of what can occur between people.

Defining Tools for a New Learning Space: Writing and Reading Class Blogs Sarah Hurlburt Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Languages and Literature Whitman College Walla Walla, WA USA hurlbuse@whitman.edu Abstract This paper uses specific issues surrounding course blogging to provide a series of reflections regarding the articulation between pedagogy and technology in creating a next generation learning space and discourse community. It investigates the underlying structure and necessary constituent elements of a successful blog assignment and examines the notion of natural and unnatural virtual environments and the roles of the reader and the writer-reader. It suggests that blog assignments may not succeed equally well in all subject areas and gives a number of possible reasons. Furthermore, it posits a more nuanced criterion for the definition of goals and the evaluation of the success of a blog assignment as a learning community beyond the presence or absence of comments. Keywords: Web 2.0, learning communities, reader anxiety, constructivist learning, discourse communities, comments

There are growing expectations among college students to be able to access and manage their course materials over the World Wide Web. In its early days, faculty would create web pages by hand for posting this information. As Internet technologies and access have matured over the past decade, course and learning management systems such as Blackboard and Web CT have become the norm for distributing such materials. In today's Web 2.0 world, wikis have emerged as a tool that may complement or replace the use of traditional course management systems as a tool for disseminating course information. Because of a wiki's collaborative nature, its use also allows students to participate in the process of course management, information sharing, and content creation. Using examples from an information technology classroom, this paper describes several ways to structure and use a wiki as a course management tool, and shares results of a student survey on the effectiveness of such an approach on student learning. Keywords: Wiki, Course Management, Collaboration, Web 2.0, Content Creation, Student Learning.

Innovation in Online Higher Education Published November 14, 2008 Random... , Thinkses In an article in the Guardian a couple of days ago - UK universities should take online lead, it was reported that "UK universities should push to become world leaders in online higher education", with universities secretary, John Denham, "likely to call" for the development of a "global Open University in the UK". (Can you imagine how well that call went down here?;-) Anyway, the article gave me a heads-up about the imminent publication of a set of reports to feed into a Debate on the Future of Higher Education being run out of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.

useful survey and comments on new govnt report on e learing from expert at the OU

Elearning is growing and evolving hand in glove with a constellation of technologies that have their roots in a number of places. One is in collaboration software. If we look back to the origins of the internet (ARPANET) through to today's big emphasis on "Web 2.0" tools, there is a constant thread of the dynamic interplay between technology and the groups using it. The early software was written because scientists needed better ways to collaborate. Usenet evolved as more and more people started using it, creating both technological and social demands on the system. Personal publishing - while easier today with blogs and wikis - has been around since the early nineties, giving voice to people in new ways that ranged wider than their geographic communities, creating learning connections that span the globe. Community influences technology and technology influences community. This is true in the application of technology for learning.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

How to Use This Course All of the content for this course is accessible from the right sidebar titled Course Materials (it's on the right there, just below the search box). But you'll probably want to begin by just diving right into the Syllabus. You'll also notice that Announcements are available in another sidebar there on the right, just below the Course Materials. Course Description Course ImageInnovation continues to occur on the internet at an extremely lively pace. What was once the realm of email, FTP, Gopher, and the Web is barely recognizable a mere 10 years later. Keeping up with the speed of innovation and maintaining a familiarity with the most recent tools and capabilities is handy in some professions and absolutely critical in others. This course is designed to help you understand and effectively use a variety of "web 2.0″ technologies including blogs, RSS, wikis, social bookmarking tools, photo sharing tools, mapping tools, audio and video podcasts, and screencasts.