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Randy Knuppel

More Employers Use Social Networks to Check Out Applicants - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Job applicants are being checked out on Facebook and other social networks before they are hired.
Burks Oakley

Innovate: Positioning Faculty Support as a Strategy in Assuring Quality Online Education - 0 views

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    Good paper about the need for strong faculty support in developing quality online courses - access to full article requires free registration
Burks Oakley

Social Media is Killing the LMS Star - A Bootleg of Bryan Alexander's Lost Presentation... - 0 views

  • Meanwhile, we need to watch for where innovations occur. That’s largely going to be Web 2.0, a hub of invention so busy that it’s difficult to keep up.
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      I wonder if we still will be using Blackboard in another 3-5 years...
Burks Oakley

HDNews.net - fhsu052609 - 0 views

  • It's the latest chapter in an evolving debate about the place of innovation in higher education. Is outsourcing teaching -- especially for huge and often poorly run introductory courses -- a way for colleges to catch up with other industries and rein in out-of-control costs? Or does it mean gutting what makes universities special?
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      This is an interesting concept - to outsource the teaching of introductory courses.
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    This seems really bad for higher education (IMHO).
Mark Klinger

Connect With Your Neighbors Online - 2 views

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    This is a very short but interesting description of a great application of the internet to connect with your neighbors-- "neighbornodes." I had never heard of these before but thought maybe someone else had. They seem like a great idea not only for promoting a sense of community, but also for security reasons as well! Ideas such as this tie into our discussion for this week of digital communications among neighbors.
Yvonne Garth

:: The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It - 0 views

shared by Yvonne Garth on 01 May 11 - Cached
  • This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation—and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control
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    Here is an article on the "Future of the Internet."
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