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The International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments provides readers with a comprehensive coverage of developments in learning technologies for an international readership of educators and trainers. The journal is a primary source for academics, professionals, corporate trainers and policy makers in information and communications technologies. The journal publishes work of a high standard on a range of fields associated with Course Management Systems (CMS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), Virtual Learning Environments (VLE), Personalized Learning Environments (PLE), Social Networking Software (SNS), and 3D virtual worlds, including for example Second Life (SL).

Institutions need assessment management using portfolio data but students need personal portfolios to learn. Within one technology, portfolios, IT must show both the liberating and controlling faces.

Industry evolution is the study of how industries begin, grow, mature and adapt to changing business environments.

This blog post is somewhat a summary of my understanding of what Sakai 3 is all about, from a user point of view. I hope it can become a starting point for current community members who might still see Sakai 3 as a blurry long term vision, and maybe even draw more people's attention to Sakai as a valid alternative to commercial learning management systems like Blackboard.

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.

University of Delaware Information Technologies has announced that faculty and staff can now create "project" sites on Sakai@UD -- the UD-supported learning management system.

Welcome to the workspace for the Horizon Project. This space is a place for the members of the Horizon Project Advisory Board to manage the process of selecting the topics for the 2009 Horizon Report, which will be co-published by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and will be released publicly January, 2009.

A theory: Facebook management is acting like a group of cult leaders intent on changing the rest of us into more social, less private people than we might want to be. Maybe all social networking services are trying to do that - but the way Facebook is going about it feels particularly cult-like.

In opt-in cultures, employees are more engaged and more productive leading the overall organization to greater success. One could debate whether a successful wiki breeds an opt-in culture or an opt-in culture breeds a successful wiki. But one thing is certain…you can't have one without the other.

Wiki use calls for a simple trade-off of control for content, perfection for timeliness. The more the members of an organization can contribute freely, the more contribution will happen. In return, employees will feel safe contributing, and the wiki will be more likely to serve its purpose.