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Ted Curran

Blackboard vs. Moodle: North Carolina Community Colleges Assessment - 0 views

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  • “The end-of-term student and instructor surveys showed that Blackboard and Moodle are not that different.” All of these systems are pretty good/bad.
  • “The real difference is found in student perception of their teachers’ comfort level with the application. There exists a significant correlation between student survey scores of both Blackboard and Moodle with the perceived comfort level of instructors using either application. Thus, student perceptions of both CMSs were influenced by instructor experience, training, and skills.” The fact that your faculty reviewers are more familiar with your old system than some of the alternatives may bias their evaluations significantly.
  • “Case studies of four exclusively Moodle institutions indicated that while transition to Moodle was challenging, ultimately the case study students and faculty preferred Moodle over Blackboard.”
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  • “The CMS application functionality comparison by online administrators (application and network) and online instructors indicated that Moodle 1.9x has a higher perceived functionality than any version of Blackboard evaluated. The large number of “did not use” responses suggested that neither CMS platform was utilized to full capacity.” Having a system with 39,000 seldom-used features that require a course to learn how to use is not as valuable to you as having a system with 39 features that most people will find useful and can figure out how to use on their own.
  • “The analysis revealed the total pre-transition year cost for all four case study colleges totaled $184,410. There was a 35% increase in total cost in the transition year to $248,300, due to supporting two CMSs simultaneously. Lastly, the post-transition year cost of ownership was $52,296, which accounted for a 72% decrease in total cost compared to that of the pre-transition year. The total cost savings from preto post-transition years for all of the case study colleges was $132,114.” Consider long-run costs as well as short-run costs. Migration may be cheaper than staying put, and the more expensive migration in the short run may be cheaper in the long run.
Ted Curran

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Building blocks: connecting Google Apps for Education ... - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 04 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Ted Curran on 04 Jun 10
     
    Northwestern is unveiling a Blackboard Building Block called "Bboogle" that they have built and are releasing to the community as open source. Building Block includes single sign-on, automated account provisioning, and automated sharing of Google Documents and Calendars through Blackboard course sites.
Ted Curran

Academic Study of Blackboard vs. Sakai at UNC School of Medicine - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 14 Apr 10 - Cached
  • The battle of the bullet points, where vendors are compared mainly based on long but shallow lists of features, is thankfully going away.
  • The assessment document, then, did not tell the whole story of vendor difference; the means by which a product delivered a solution to a given requirement showed a level of depth not reflected in the assessment document.
  • requirement #89 (the ability to deliver small groups) is marked in the RFP as a requirement fulfilled by both products, but in reality the groups provided in Blackboard do not have the same flexibility as those found within Sakai
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  • It is telling that for the SOM, neither cost nor feature set stood out as the biggest difference between competing LMS products, but flexibility.
  • In UNC School of Medicine’s case, Sakai was judged to be more flexible than Blackboard.
Ted Curran

Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 19 May 10 - Cached
  • Faculty use the CMS primarily as an administrative tool … rather than as a tool anchored in pedagogy or cognitive science models."
  • Several reports confirm that instructors overwhelmingly use content distribution and administrative tools in the LMS while using interactive learning tools only sparingly
  • LMSs have become little more than "storage facilities for lecture notes and PowerPoint presentations."11
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  • largely failed to empower the strong and effective imaginations that students need for creative citizenship
  • First, LMSs are generally organized around discrete, arbitrary units of time — academic semesters. Courses typically expire and simply vanish every 15 weeks or so, thereby disrupting the continuity and flow of the learning process.
  • Second, LMSs are teacher-centric. Teachers create courses, upload content, initiate threaded discussions, and form groups. Opportunities for student-initiated learning activities in the traditional LMS are severely limited.
  • Finally, courses developed and delivered via the LMS are walled gardens, limited to those officially enrolled in them. This limitation impairs content sharing across courses, conversations between students within and across degree programs, and all of the dynamic learning affordances of the read-write web.2
  • personal learning networks (PLNs) to manage information, create content, and connect with others
  • personal cyberinfrastructures
  • Campbell argued that we should embrace technologies that enable co-learners to frame, curate, share, and direct learning "engagement streams
  • Value accrues to the system as a whole because the more users or ‘nodes’ there are in a network, the more possible connections there are
  • several significant weaknesses and challenges associated with PLEs
  • support
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  • Teachers and learners should be encouraged and supported in their efforts to find and use the most appropriate and effective best-of-breed tools outside the LMS
  • the University of Mary Washington deployed an instance of WordPress MultiUser (WPMU) as an alternative teaching and learning platform (UMW Blogs)
  • enabling the creation of blogs that automatically enroll students in courses as "members" of class blogs created by instructors
  • A pilot currently under way at Duke University (http://blogs-dev.oit.duke.edu) is aimed at assessing the viability of WPMU as an alternative platform for instructors teaching undergraduate and graduate courses. The list of potential uses on the pilot site includes using a WordPress blog as "the central course administrative tool" instead of Blackboard.
  • The LMS paradigm assumes that since some data must be kept private and secure, all data must be kept private and secure.
  • As depicted in Figure 1, proprietary applications and data such as the student information system (SIS), secure online assessment tools, and a university gradebook should be situated inside the private, secure university network. Personal publishing space, social networking, and collaboration tools live in the open, flexible cloud.
  • a loosely coupled gradebook is perhaps the essential module that brings all of the "small pieces" together.
  • instructors and students need a private, secure way to communicate about student performance on assignments, quizzes, and tests
  • If these artifacts are published on the web, they are individually addressable via URLs, so the OLN’s loosely coupled gradebook would simply require the submission of the URL instead of requiring students to upload the artifacts to a traditional gradebook. Instructors would then see a list of student names and links to the artifacts they published on the web
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ClassroomCaptureTechnology - Keck qwiki wiki @USC - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 23 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Ted Curran on 23 Mar 11
     
    Classroom Capture Technology by RayMosteller - EducationalResources Webcasting and Podcasting Camtasia Relay - Lecture capture and presentation by TechSmith Camtasia Relay Pricing - One time licensing fee Echo 360 - Platform for campus-wide lecture capture, bought by Blackboard Kaltura - Open-source online video platform Kaltura community Mediasite - Global leader for enterprise webcasting and knowledge management Smart Encode - Smart PiP Encoder (used by DEN at USC) Tegrity - Automatically capturing, storing and indexing every class on campus, bought by McGraw-Hill Education Video Capture Software WM Recorder, Capture, Converter - The Ultimate Toolkit to Download, Capture and Convert ANY Streaming Video SDP Downloader - Download mms stream as wmv file WebVideoCap v1.33 - Capture Flash video and RTSP/MMS streams by Nir Sofer Freemake Video Downloader - Download videos from YouTube, Facebook, MTV, other sites in HD, 4K, MP4, FLV, 3GP Video Conversion Software AMV Video Converter - Converts avi, mpeg, mpg, wmv, rm, mov, qt Freemake Video Converter - Convert video between formats, rip DVD, convert to devices, burn DVD, cut, join, rotate, and upload video, photos, MP3 Video Player Software Any FLV Player - play FLV files (MPEG-4 encoded video files for Flash) on the internet Applian FLV Player GOM Media Player - includes XviD, DivX, FLV1, AC3, OGG, MP4, H263 Related: WebTwoTechnologies LearningManagementSystems - OnlineCollaborationTools - FacultyBlackboardCommittee
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rSmart Sakai - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 28 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Ted Curran on 28 Sep 10
     
    rSmart is a hosted, managed, support-oriented instance of Sakai. Hell yes.
Ted Curran

Google Releases CloudCourse, an Open Source Learning Platform - 0 views

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  • Ted Curran on 26 May 10
     
    Google made a number of announcements in the past week that are of interest to educators: opening Google Wave to the public and extending Google Voice accounts to ...
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