A vision for course management systems
Mazar, R. (2010) Episode 3: campus courseware University Affairs, November 8
Rochelle Mazar, an Emerging Technologies Librarian at the University of Toronto Mississauga, provides in...
A student-centered LMS on Facebook
Kolowich, S. (2010) Mixing work and play on Facebook Inside Higher Education, October 6
Article about Mixable, an LMS developed at Purdue University that:
invites students...
E-learning simply explained: a video
The United Nations University has released what it calls a 'sticky concepts' video on e-learning.
From the UNU:
If you are a newbie in the field...
Blackboard acquires Elluminate and Wimba: the end of LMSs?
Kolowich, S. (2010) Blackboard's big buy Inside Higher Education, July 8
This article leaves me as depressed as a Netherlands soccer supporter. Elluminate follows another...
Canadian corporate innovation in e-learning
Galt, V. (2010) How to bake agility into corporate DNA Globe and Mail, May 20
In my blog on Six Priorities for Canadian e-learning in...
Preliminary book review: An Introduction to Distance Education
Cleveland-Innes, M. and Garrison, R. (eds.) 2010 An Introduction to Distance Education: Understanding Teaching and Learning in a New Era New York/Abingdon UK: Routledge
This...
Open source LMSs for small colleges: 3 cases
Briggs, L. (2010) Moving to an Open Source LMS: 3 Stories Campus Technology, April 7
This article describes how three small colleges migrated to either...
What do instructors need to know about teaching with technology?
I believe that we will see no real innovation, no fundamental change, in post-secondary education, at least from within, unless all instructors have basic...
A personal view of e-learning at the University of British Columbia
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (home of OLT)
It's now seven years since I resigned as Director of Distance Education and Technology at UBC,...
Journal of Educational Technology and Society: Vol. 12, No.4
The latest issue of "Journal of Educational Technology & Society" is now available on the ETS Journal Web Site.
This issue contains 12 selected papers...