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Design Matters « higher education management group - 2 views

  • growing recognition that design is not simply about making products attractive
  • easier to use, fit better into the flow of people’s lives, suit the needs of a broader range of end-users, increase productivity, and even influence emotions (which in turn can influence cognition).
  • digital higher education – both its software and content – has managed to remain untouched by good design.
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  • esign is not even on the agenda
  • just like educators.
  • design and education have remarkably similar objectives
  • Design
  • quality of design in screen-based environments dramatically influences the end-user’s experience.
  • passive form of communication
  • Both design and education attempt to leverage the user’s existing knowledge
  • maximize the audience’s retention of relevant information
  • seeks to make the complex simple
  • move beyond a one-way
  • the end-user become an active participant in the process
  • y organizing the user’s attention; encouraging them to focus on what the designer/educator feels is most important.
  • establishing a competitive difference for institutions
  • students approach education like consumers
  • seeking out meaningful differences
  • Thoughtfully designed software and content can serve as a competitive differentiators
  • tangible; students can see (and experience) the difference
  • few institutions have the talent and resources in place to leverage design
  • Nimble and intelligent institutions can use design to stake out a significant difference
wlampner

Baked In: How BenchPrep Is Turning e-Textbooks Into Virtual Study Groups | Fast Company - 2 views

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    Social networking-enabled test prep textbooks with interactive quizzes.
wlampner

iPad and iPhone Application Development (HD) - Download free content from Stanford on i... - 2 views

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    Free from Stanford.  
Joel Mellor

You Suck At PowerPoint! - 2 views

  • You Suck At PowerPoint!
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    Funny I ran into this right after our conversation this morning.
wlampner

DoubleTake by Purdue University - Mobile learning and video sharing - 1 views

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    DoubleTake provides instructors an easy way to assign, manage, and grade student video projects. Students can use the DoubleTake mobile application to produce and submit videos for course assignments or, alternatively, upload captured video through a separate Web interface. 
Patrick Tabatcher

Tumult Hype - 1 views

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    Looks interesting. This program seems like the "flash" app for creating HTML5 animations. Includes an export function to bring the animations into iBooks Author.
Stephen Allen

Organic Motion: Markerless Motion Capture - 1 views

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    Markerless motion capture means none of those dots pasted all over your body. This is an expensive ($80,000) system, but apparently motion capture studio rental can be quite high. Not to suggest we run out and buy this, but Sports Science and Dance may be interested in utilizing such technology.
wlampner

New Classroom Tool Uses Laptops & Phones for Instant Assessment - 1 views

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    potential clicker alternatives, see comments for more to review
Patrick Tabatcher

Twitter hasn't killed RSS just yet, here's how to find your Twitter feed RSS url | The ... - 1 views

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    A how-to article to get the RSS feed for your Twitter feed.
Patrick Tabatcher

Glassboard: The Anti-Facebook - 1 views

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    An example of how you can use Glassboard. Glassboard has been getting traction at conferences as a way to communicate and share information.
Joel Mellor

copyrightconfusion - home - 1 views

  • Finally~Copyright Clarity has arrived
Patrick Tabatcher

MSDN Blogs - 1 views

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    In light of the discovery that Google circumvents settings in Safari that block third-party cookies, it is discovered that Google is also circumventing privacy setting in IE.
Patrick Tabatcher

MinutePhysics - YouTube - 1 views

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    Short animations illustrating physics.
Joel Mellor

Check This Out: The New Coke 5! | Fast Company - 1 views

  • Check This Out: The New Coke 5! BY Martin LindstromTue Oct 4, 2011 From lightbulbs to iPhones, tech has a history of being produced with planned obsolescence. And our children will never know the alternative.
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    Some interesting insights on thinking....
Patrick Tabatcher

Adobe MAX 2011 - Photoshop Image Deblurring sneak - YouTube - 1 views

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    Watch a potential feature of Photoshop that let's you un-blur an image.
wlampner

Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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    Describes ways QR Codes can be used.
wlampner

State Regulators Work to Clarify Regulations for Distance Education Providers... - 1 views

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    Recent stateauth changes.
Patrick Tabatcher

Lion compatibility; native or not? | Operating Systems | Mac 911 | Macworld - 1 views

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    A easy way to determine if you are running any apps that will stop working with Lion. I have several that are incompatible, one is the Microsoft Office Update utility. Another is the Media 100 Transcoder.
Stephen Allen

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. - 1 views

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    This is the test. It takes about one second. I suppose it could point to or eliminate connection speed as an issue when a user is having trouble with one of our videos.
wlampner

Blind Florida State U. Students Sue Over E-Learning Systems - Wired Campus - The Chroni... - 1 views

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    Mentions accessibility issue with clickers.
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