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Irony Alert: Desire2Learn, Critic of Litigation, Sues Over Utah Contract – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Dear Colleagues, Some of you who remember that D2L was one of our LMS candidates may enjoy reading this article. Apparently, the higher ground is hard to hold!! http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/irony-alert-desire2learn-critic-of-litigation-sues-over-utah-contract/29118
Preventing Online Dropouts: Does Anything Work? – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
The first study cited below seemed to indicate that engagement strategies did not affect the online retention rate. Further down in the article, another campus tried the intervention of informal […]
News: Seed of Doubt
This is a report of a study to “refute” the Dept of Ed meta-study that student results of online (particularly hybrid) courses is superior to on-campus courses. Unfortunately, the authors […]
Horizon report 2010
As many know, the Horizon Report comes out each year to capsulize technology trends that are significant to the academy. This year, the keywords are “data sense-making, the cloud, and […]
What is Moodle?
This short video introduction to Moodle gives a little of the history and background of Moodle. Moodle Tutorials ::: Educating Educators – A general Moodle presentation. Posted using ShareThis
Composition as media convergence?
Stephanie Vie is making a strong case for peeking over the wall between the LMS as acceptable tech medium for student learning, and social networking sites — deemed by many […]
Student technology use – 2009 ECAR Study
The Educause ECAR 2009 Study of Undergraduate technology use, which includes 12 two-year colleges and 27 4-year colleges, found the following (unfortunately, the 2500 students’ data from the two-year colleges […]
Educause: Blackboard versus Moodle
This presentation is from the current Educause conference taking place in Denver. To view the presentation, you have to download MS Silverlight, but it’s quick: http://educause.mediasite.com/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=3f76ff6fc7354dbdb81202bb6a00146c
Providing Feedback in a Technology-Mediated Environment
Would love some feedback on whether this might be a valuable program to purchase: sounds like some great tips and discussion for grading writing assignment electronically… Providing Feedback in […]
