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2/24/2006
Distance learning in music education, how is this possible? Skeptics wonder if videoconferencing technology can capture superior sound quality or has the necessary clarity for tracking minute movements during performance. The surprising answer: Yes, to both.
2/14/2006
Blended learning is the "new" buzz in higher education. Many educational researchers have discovered that online learning environments are particularly useful for communications and collaboration. When you add in management and administrative tools available in most course management systems today online learning environments are fairly robust. But giving up the classroom seems a little drastic and premature.
1/12/2006
During the academic year 2002-2003, as I attempted to keep track of developments in electronic portfolios, I wasn't quite frantic. Given the widespread distribution of portfolios-in classrooms, in academic programs, in extracurricular programs, for employment-this was no easy task, and at the end of that year, I concluded that my search to keep up wasn't probably successful after all, unless of course we measure success by exhaustion.
1/12/2006
KUMC currently uses Blackboard as its primary Learning Management System. In the Spring of 2005, an advisory committee was convened to identify additional learning management system capabilities needed to support current and forthcoming online learning initiatives. The School of Medicine requested a comprehensive online system to facilitate the redesign and delivery of an integrated basic science curriculum. The School of Nursing sought a system to support the design and delivery of a new online Doctorate of Nursing Program.
1/3/2006
Unlike many other institutions, at Virginia Tech we do not have a production shop on campus to accommodate our classroom instructors. Instead of designing individual websites or adapting content for use with a course management system, we train faculty to do the work themselves. Our professional development program, though voluntary, has a 96 percent faculty buy-in rate.
1/2/2006
Today's college students are adept at downloading music, using instant messaging to chat with friends, sending e-mail, and surfing the web-but do they know how to effectively find, evaluate, and use information appropriately?
11/1/2005
Faced with the need to meet regularly to implement its many projects, and challenged by the busy schedules and increasingly costly travel of the multiple committee members, we’ve begun to “walk the walk” of eLearning by convening an increasing number of our meetings as electronic conferences. For more than two years, we have used Elluminate.
11/1/2005
What interesting times at Educause, one week after the announced Blackboard-WebCT merger. Most of those involved in running a course management system, any course management system, were reading tea leaves, seeking assurances, reflecting on the plane ride home about what to report to campus.
10/24/2005
Illegal sharing of music and videos by students garners most of the attention—and the concern—devoted to campus copyright infringement. But adherence to copyright law, particularly in the use of course management systems by faculty and staff, also is critically important.
10/19/2005
Blackboard Inc., and WebCT, Inc., two of the leading purveyors of course management software, sought to reassure customers this week that their announced merger is good news on campus.
10/18/2005
A client recently asked me to specify an annotation system for their presentation system. "Make it easy to use, but with lots of functions. Make it high quality, with maximum flexibility, but it needs to be small. It needs to handle any possible input source: dedicated PC, user-provided laptop of any native resolution including DVI-D, VCR/DVD player, document camera, digital camera, camcorder, codec. Insert thoughtful pause here. "But not too expensive.
10/17/2005
Melissa Grill is exactly the sort of student who benefits when colleges and universities put together solid distance learning programs. Grill, returning to school for a graduate degree while working full-time, took 12 courses from Capitol College over two years to earn her graduate degree in information telecommunications systems management, all via a broadband connection from home.
10/4/2005
In a relatively short time – three years – e-Learning offerings at The Ohio State University (representing supplemental, blended and fully online courses) grew to include a significant share of total courses.
10/4/2005
Talk to virtually any student about the cost of textbooks and you will likely hear loud complaints about the expense associated with course texts.
9/21/2005
VIEWPOINT
* Reflection in an Always-On Learning Environment:
Has It Been Turned Off?
NEWS and PRODUCT UPDATES
* Fifty-one Competencies for Online Instruction
* SimSchool: The Game of Teaching
* Learning Objects: A Rose By Any Other Name
CASE STUDY
* ePortfolios Help Clayton State University
Assess Student Learning and Program Outcomes
TECH NOTES
* Katrina Articles and Resources for Campus IT
ONLINE RESOURCES
http://www.campus-technology.com/resources/index.asp
9/20/2005
Forging change via comfortable transitions, these two campus pilot projects are ideal eLearning models.
9/6/2005
At Ohio’s University of Akron, a pilot program introduced last year is successfully using wireless feedback devices to increase student involvement in the learning process. The relatively simple technology uses portable infrared receivers connected to faculty laptop computers, and a small infrared “clicker” device for each student in class.
8/18/2005
VIEWPOINT
* eLearning: Are We Making Money?
NEWS and PRODUCT UPDATES
* Horizon Wimba Enhances Audio for Live Classroom
* Firm Markets "Clone" of CMS Platforms
* Higher Ed Buying Co-op Adds Online Text
Services
CASE STUDY
* eLearning Utopia: iPods Meet Course Management in the Classroom
TECH NOTES
* Syllabus2005 Keynote Videos Online
8/15/2005
The knock on elearning in some quarters is that faculty just throw notes and lectures online and call it elearning. It’s a persistent stereotype, and there’s some research to fuel it.
I’m less interested in debating the notion than ensuring that readers get a full flavor of at least one notable exception: my course at Georgia College & State University.
8/2/2005
The rise of eLearning and technology in higher education—including distance education, digital repositories, and electronic courseware products—has changed the way faculty and institutions regard ownership and control of these materials.
7/28/2005
An historically black institution in Baltimore, MD, Coppin State is dedicated
to helping its
4,000 students succeed in the face of obstacles.With limited financial support,many
students
must maintain jobs during the course of their studies, and their obligations
at home sometimes
precede their course responsibilities. Coppin State needed to offer its students
a flexible, effective
and inexpensive way to improve learning, studying, and information retention.
7/28/2005
Challenge: In January 2003, Case Western Reserve University’s (OH) then-new President, Edward M. Hundert, challenged university leadership to engage with the community, and help Case become the best university neighbor any city ever had.
7/28/2005
Challenge: At the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Monterey (CA), Dr. Jack Franke (a professor of Russian and coordinator of the European and Latin American School) and his colleagues realized that using digital technologies in foreign language classrooms would offer new possibilities for learning, as well as efficiencies for the institute.
7/21/2005
Maybe. But in online ed, what do we mean by "making money?"
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