Evolving Teaching and Learning: Beyond the LMS (Apple Academix) - 0 views
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The LMS market today faces a strange contradiction - few teachers truly *love* their current LMS but at the same time no one wants to endure the pain of switching to a new LMS. The LMS vendors are slowly cloning each other's features and innovation is slowing. At the same time how people teach and how people learn using technology is constantly changing and evolving. Teachers continuously experiment with technologies outside of the LMS system with varying levels of success
In Cloud We Trust? - 0 views
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When asked the question: "Do you trust the cloud?," the majority of responses either came back as a flat-out "no" or as a longer explanation as to why their response was a "maybe" or a "sometimes." Some said the cloud was trustworthy enough for non-critical data, but not for secure and private communications, such as those used in the enterprise.
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ConnectYard - Courses in Facebook - 0 views
Twittering Libraries - 0 views
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Because of the rapidly growing popularity of social networking sites and in an attempt to reach out to those participating, many libraries have created their own Twitter accounts. Although the original intent was to network with patrons and others within their community, many libraries are finding that Twitter has many other uses beyond the simple "what are you doing?" tweet.
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EDUCAUSE Live Event (Jan 27, 2009) Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sh... - 0 views
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Educators have been searching for ways to modularize and share educational content since the inception of online learning. However, for reasons both cultural and technological, the academic community has been slow to accept past attempts to support learning through the use of reusable, stand-alone, digital assets. With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, widgets, along with a new generation of web-based and mobile content aggregators, provide the key to successfully packaging and delivering web-based educational content. In this Webinar, Marino will share how the production of portable course content in widgets has opened his writing course, and Metros will discuss ways to work with information technology leaders and university administration to deploy and promote widgets as an innovative and supportable learning technology.
Why Does LinkedIn Still Have Facebook Envy? - 0 views
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The Digital Ethnographer's Notebook: Diigo vs. Evernote vs. Tiddlywiki - 0 views
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I have never been happy with the standard Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) software options that have been available (or the prices!), so for the next 2 weeks I will be on a quest for the perfect fieldnotes management system that will be used by my incoming class of 15 students for our ethnographic project exploring anonymity on the web.
Lev Gonick: How Technology Will Reshape Academe After the Economic Crisis - 0 views
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Future generations of learners will no doubt look back at the global economic crisis of 2008-9 and reflect on which institutions were agile enough to make a difference by bringing the wisdom of their scholars together with the acumen of their technology officers and the ingenuity and determination of their university leaders.
Twitter as Courseware - 0 views
Those Who Publish Set the Agenda - 0 views
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If we find unequal uptake of these activities then such discrepancies imply the emergence of a two-tiered system where some people contribute to online content while others remain mere consumers of material. Those who share their content publicly have the ability to set the agenda of public discussions and debates.