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October 2003
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Draft paper on using community software for rich constructivist education
http://tecfa.unige.ch/proj/seed/catalog/ docs/sevilla03-schneider.pdf This 39 page paper (draft 1.5) by Daniel Schneider is well worth the effort. On top of the ton of good thinking on why traditional CMS don’t suffice and what roles the instructor might play within different pedagogical designs, the paper was worthwhile simply for introducing (at least to me) the term “Community, [...]
eCollege hits record Q3 revenue with $7.6 million
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/ stories/2003/10/20/daily21.html “The company posted earnings of 4 cents per diluted share for the third quarter of 2003, compared to a net loss of 5 cents per diluted share for the third quarter last year.”
IMS releases elearning specification Abstract Framework
http://www.imsglobal.org/af/index.cfm “The IMS Abstract Framework (IAF) is a device to enable the IMS to describe the context within which it will continue to develop its eLearning technology specifications. This framework is not an attempt to define the IMS architecture, rather it is a mechanism to define the set of services for which IMS may or [...]
Download IMS Specifications as Content Packages
http://www.imsglobal.org/specificationdownload.cfm You can now download the various IMS specification documents packaged as an IMS Content Packages themselves. The advantages, as their feed says, are that “by downloading the specification as IMS packaged content, you can see what a content package looks like and how it is organized. You can also import it as a learning [...]
"The proper way to become an instructional technologist"
http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa? A2=ind9803&L=itforum&P=R587&m=2140 Digging back through the ITFORUM mailing list archives for that last post brought me across this gem by Lloyd Rieber of The University of Georgia. It was originally delivered as the 1998 Peter Dean Lecture, but I’m linking to this version because of all of the interesting discussion on the mailing list it [...]
June Lester on the 'SME's Viewpoint'
http://thejuniverse.blogs.com/afterhours/ 2003/10/surviving_cours.html June Lester is a mathematician and an educator, and one of the people brave enough to help facilitate the ‘blogtalk’ we tried over the last few weeks. She’s posted a great piece on the frustration a ‘SME’ can feel in the so-called ‘course-development wars.’ She’s right of course – subject matter experts in [...]
More thoughts on 'Surviving Course Development Wars'
http://www.xplana.com/articles/archives/course_dev_wars This piece by Susan Smith Nash on Xplana made me laugh. I wonder if anyone working in online instructional development in post-secondary *hasn’t* experienced this kind of situation…
Guide to Institutional Repository Software
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/ Really helpful report from George Soros’ Open Society Institute that looks at the currently available open source institutional repository systems that comply with the Open Archives Initiative metadata harvesting protocols. (Note these aren’t ‘learning object’ repositories per se – these are typically more focused on archiving scholarly publishing and other institutional materials, though through [...]
Wiki for project work at Wesleyan University
http://twiki.wesleyan.edu/cgi-bin/view/Projects/WebChanges The actual front page for the entire Wesleyan Wiki is at http://twiki.wesleyan.edu/cgi-bin/view/Main/WebHome but the page above points to recent changes on various project-focused wiki pages and shows a vibrant little site. Just pointing it out as another living breathing example of wikis being used to collaborate and coordinate within an organization – in this [...]
B.C. Educational Technology Users Group 'Blogtalk'
http://etugblog.typepad.com/blogtalk/ Today is officially the last day so I can finally let the cat out of the bag for those who haven’t seen this yet. As I mentioned in an earlier post, for the past two weeks I’ve been helping to facilitate, along with 4 other educators from B.C., an ‘online discussion’ on possible uses [...]
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