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Wed., Feb. 02, 2005
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IN THIS ISSUE
VIEWPOINT
NEWS & PRODUCT UPDATES
CASE STUDY
TECH NOTES
READER RESPONSE
Sponsors
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Viewpoint
Evolution Before Revolution: Simplifying the Recording and Streaming
of Instructor-Led Presentations
By James A. Dias
True eLearning (as opposed to the sparse and re-purposed content delivered
through many of today’s online courses) is a complex and expensive instructional
design and content delivery process that relies on building learning objects
often with time-consuming visual and multimedia files. Most university faculties
do not have the requisite expertise to design, build, and deliver courses this
way, and instructional support teams are often overextended. A number of institutions
have discovered that their faculties and students are better served if, instead
of trying to completely re-create a new learning experience for remote learners,
they simply replicate the proven, instructor-led style of lectures of traditional,
classroom-based courses and make them available online.
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News & Product Updates
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RIT Selects Desire2Learn
Desire2Learn Inc., provider of enterprise learning systems, has
announced that the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has
selected the Desire2Learn Learning Platform to serve its 20,000
users. RIT will replace its existing learning management system
with the Desire2Learn Learning Platform, a suite of teaching and
learning tools for course development, delivery, and management.
All of RIT’s existing courses will be converted to the Desire2Learn
Learning Platform as part of the implementation. The agreement
also includes the Desire2Learn Learning Object Repository (LOR),
an integrated standards-based learning object repository enabling
the storing, sharing, and tracking of learning objects, seamlessly
integrating with the Desire2Learn Learning Platform.
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New “Web Media Collective” for Sharing Multimedia at OS
Ohio State University has added a rich media content management
system to its Web infrastructure, enabling professors to pull
digital images from various university collections into the
classroom. The school is using a platform from Scene7 Inc. as the
technology behind what it calls its “Web Media Collective.” The
system is designed to help solve the problem of how to help
individual faculty as well as curriculum teams share media assets
for teaching and research.
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Texas A&M Selects Camtasia for Screen Recording
Texas A&M University has settled on a standard for screen recording
software, so that its faculty can have a common tool for preparing
online course content from a screen creation. The university will
use Camtasia Studio, from TechSmith Corp., which is known for its
onscreen capture and recording software. With the new software,
faculty and researchers are able to create and share live lectures,
distance-learning videos, as well as in-class presentations and
tutorials. The latest version of software includes an add-in for
recording, editing, and sharing Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
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“Liquid Information” Could Pour into a More Powerful Web
A British researcher wants to turn the entire Web into editable
documents with every word a potential hyperlink. (Wired News)
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Academics in the UK Are Learning About Blogs
Susses University is one of many places where IT departments are
heeding academics' call to let them play with this new technology.
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Case Study
Going Native—Franklin and Marshall Implements Ingeniux Content Management
System for Apple OS X and Xserve Server
Franklin and Marshall (F&M) is a leading liberal arts college
located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with an enrollment of approximately
1,800 full-time equivalent students. F&M (www.fandm.edu ) has a
rich history originating with its founding in 1787 by five of the
signers of the Declaration on the Independence--including Benjamin
Franklin. Appropriately, a spirit of independence and innovation
is still reflected in all aspects of the colleges, including its
choice for an all-Apple computing environment that includes Apple
Xserve servers and the Macintosh computers used by students, staff,
and faculty.
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Tech Notes
UMassOnline’s Degree and Certificate Programs
UMassOnline has recently added six programs to its electronic course
offerings, bringing to 45 the number of online degree and certificate
programs in its portfolio. With the addition of online continuing
medical education (CME) courses from UMass Medical School, UMassOnline
now represents every campus in the university system, officials
said. The new online programs include continuing medical education
courses, as well as certificate programs in hospitality, domestic
violence prevention, and forensic criminology.
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Reader Response
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From the Reader Response Forum
Support for Open Source Solutions?
My impression is that UNIX talent is required. Can anyone speak to the level
of support necessary to implement an OPEN SOURCE solution. -- Posted by Ralph
Fasano, Rhode Island School of Design
Response: Hi Ralph, it depends on the OS system. Unix talent is definitly not
needed to implement Moodle, it runs fine on Windows, even has a Windows installer.While
much of the talk on the Moodle forums involves folks who are coding new modules
for Moodle which requires extra levels of talent, simply running a standard
Moodle install is no more difficult than running a standard WebCT, Blackboard,
etc. install.You can even get a fully hosted supported system where all you
do is run courses, via Moodle.com, for much less than hosted solutions for the
other CMSs. -- Posted by michaelp
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