Inside Higher Ed :: Registration Rave Interesting article about the “registration rave” hosted by Morton College outside of Chicago. The college runs a 29 hour event, staffed by volunteers from the various offices of the college, where prospective students can register even if they hold down jobs that keep them from more traditional registration events….
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Wikipedia Article Challenges Blackboard Patent Claims
History of virtual learning environments – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Word that I have stopped blogging because I’ve been curled up in the fetal position in response to Ted Stevens tubes speech and the moronic decision by the US Patent office to give BlackBoard a patent on virtual learning environments is not quite true. I’ve…
Building Pedagogical Intelligence
Carnegie Perspectives: Building Pedagogical Intelligence It’s been eight years since I taught an (explicity) adult education course, so I’m spending quite a bit of time reviewing the literature and trying to find an appropriate framework for the class I’m teaching this fall. In the past I’ve always taught as part of a specialized graduate program,…
What’s Being Done In Other Places
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Even Higher Education
Back to College I generally avoid reading the AARP magazine–which I guess is the successor to Modern Maturity. As Tom Paxton wrote: So when you find it in your mailbox for the first time my friend You can tell that you getting older, you’re turning grey…. Modern Maturity, means you’re getting old When you get…
Penn Requires Blogs–Sort of.
Inside Higher Ed :: An Academic Blog for Students The university of Pennsylvania reportedly will require all incoming freshman to “keep blogs” of their academic progress, though I’m sure many in the blogosphere will have serious issues with the use of the term. New students will complete online journal entries that will focus on their…
Sharing the Sense of Wonder in the Classroom
Gardner Writes » Blog Archive » Surprised by YouTube Gardner writes about his experience with students in his film studies class finding an illustration for a critical essay–on YouTube. As usual, Dr. Glu extracts some important lessons for himself and his colleagues. As the information abundance spreads, and if we are brave and curious enough…
The Future of College Phone Service
More Colleges Give Cell Phones An ‘A’, A Growing Number Of Schools Eliminate Landlines In Favor Of Wireless Service – CBS News Somtime in the next few years William and Mary will be replacing the College’s PBX system and will have to decide if it makes sense to continue to provide land lines to 4500+…
Google Jockeying
ELI7014.pdf (application/pdf Object) The Educause Learning Initiative produces a series of short handouts that provide concise information on emerging learning practices and technologies like podcasting, wikis, and “little clickers.” Each brief focuses on a single practice or technology and describes what it is, how it works, where it is going, and why it matters to…
Stephen’s Back
Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ One of my student bloggers from last semester’s course wrote recently and commented on the transitions that were happening with some of the eduboggers that he had been reading regularly. Stephen Downes’ hiatus and Will Richardson’s posts on some of the issues he was wrestling with were raising…
