IM+M (Jim Farmer’s company) has published some survey data on VLE adoption by higher ed institutions in the UK from 2001 to 2005. Interestingly, the data looks bad for almost everyone. There’s some limited good news for Moodle and Boddington, but as institutions are voting with their feet, the general sentiment seems to be “A […]
Archive for June, 2006
Survey Gives Proprietary AND Open Source VLE Developers Cause to Worry
Published by June 30th, 2006 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Notable Posts and LMOS. 1 CommentWhy We Need More Standards
Published by June 28th, 2006 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and LMOS. 3 CommentsI almost missed this post by Scott Leslie expressing his mixed feelings about the standards talk coming out of Alt-i-Labs. Lucky for me, Stephen picked it up in OLDaily. Scott writes:
Part of me really wants some of these developments to come true, to deliver the promised ‘plug and play’ elearning environments described herein, and in […]
I am both sad and delighted to report that friend and colleague Ken Udas will be leaving SUNY to become the next Executive Director of Penn State’s World Campus. Sad because I will miss having him to share triumphs, trials, tribulations, and tragedies with on a daily basis. Delighted because Ken is a stellar professional […]
Conversations About Learning Design
Published by June 21st, 2006 in Higher Education, Instructional Design and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsSome discussions have popped up recently on the Sakai Pedagogy discussion group that led to some interesting questions about the potential role of learning design (small “l”, small “d”) in higher education. Since the Sakai conversations tend to be technologist-heavy and teacher-light, I cross-posted a few of the foundational questions to the LAMS community:
What are […]
The Promise and Perils of Social Software
Published by June 18th, 2006 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management and Folksonomy. 0 CommentsMy friend Joe Ugoretz has a new article on social software in the Academic Commons. He provides a good overview of a number of social software tools and suggestions about how to use them. But also embedded in his piece is a warning about what happens if we fail to embrace the new technologies and […]
