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May 2003
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What is this link doing here? Beginning a fine-grained process of identifying reasons for academic hyperlink creation
Back in April, before I went on holiday, I had posted a few items relating to hyperlink types as well as reputation management. These were partly in response to some of the conversations that were emerging in regards to using technologies like trackback with learning objects, and alternative mechanisms for rating learning objects. Via a suggestion from Michelle [...]
Educause Study on Faculty Use of Course Management Systems
There doesn’t seem to be anything that surprising in this study, “Faculty Use of Course Management Systems” by Glenda Morgan, the learning technology analyst at the Office of Learning and Information Technology of the University of Wisconsin System (at least not in the key findings document available for free on the web – you have to pony [...]
The Virtues of Virtual – ACM interview with Abbe Mowshowitz
From Ubiquity, a journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, an interview with Abbe Mowshowitz, the person generally credited with originating the term ‘virtual organization.’ Anyone in the workplace during the past 15 years will recognize the forces he is describing. More freightening, yet IMHO no less accurate , is the future he describes, one of [...]
Interview with Wisconsin's Chair of the Task Force on Course Management Systems
This was published about a month ago but I just found it today. An interview with Kathy Pletcher who chaired the task force for the University of Wisconsin’s choice of a new course management system. The outcome of this was of much interest to many in the field as it was a fairly well document [...]
Seul/Edu Index of Open Source Educational Applications
A largish directory of open source educational applications that, while apparently focused primarily at the K-12 sector, has many products I recognize for the Post-secondary sector.
evectors k-collector
enterprise-level k-log built on top of Radio.
GIS maps from British Columbia.
GIS maps from British Columbia. Some very cool new and updated Geographic Information Systems (GIS) maps coming out of British Columbia.
WebCT releases Vista 2.0
“May 7, 2003 – WebCT today introduced WebCT Vista 2.0, the latest release of e-learning’s premier academic enterprise system, with new features that simplify course development for faculty of all experience levels and accelerate campus and system-wide e-learning deployment. WebCT Vista 2.0 also includes an expanded set of Web services interfaces…” This may have already [...]
Making instructional content more accessible
“EASI, (Equal Access to Software and Information), is offering a new series, cosponsored by WCET, of synchronous 60-90-minute online events on how to make online instructional content more accessible for learners with disabilities. The series is free to WCET members.” A post from my colleagues at WCET – if you are in the States there [...]
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