The nominations are in and voting is now open for the 2007 Edublog Awards (a.k.a. “the Eddies”). I am honored to say that e-Literate is a finalist in the Best Individual Blog category.
Now comes the best part. You get to go through the list of finalists and discover all the gems that you never knew […]
Archive for November, 2007
The 2007 Edublog Awards Final Voting is Open
Published by November 26th, 2007 in Blogging and Higher Education. 0 CommentsDesire2Learn Competencies and Rubrics, Part II
Published by November 25th, 2007 in Higher Education, Instructional Design, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Notable Posts. 0 CommentsI’ve been a little surprised at the amount of attention—both positive and negative—that my first post in this series has received. I want to address some of the comments on the negative side. There seems to be some concern that systems like D2L’s might promote bureaucratic mandates that increase burdens on teachers, or that they […]
Desire2Learn Competencies and Rubrics: Part I
Published by November 18th, 2007 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management and Notable Posts. 4 CommentsAnyone who has been awake in higher education in the last couple of years knows that there is a lot of attention on outcomes and assessment lately (although with distinctly different emphases in the U.S. and the E.U.). A natural consequence of this attention is that the various LMS platform developers are adding capabilities that […]
Sakai Foundation Board Platform: Involving the Teachers
Published by November 13th, 2007 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 2 CommentsOne of my biggest concerns about the Sakai community from Day 1 has been the need to involve more teachers more directly in the design of the platform. I think that when people hear that they sometimes think of those painfully ineffective design-by-committee initiatives that universities always try and that never work. That’s not really […]
Usability Absolutely Does Matter for Adoption
Published by November 12th, 2007 in Higher Education and Usability and Human Factors. 7 CommentsChris Coppola has a good post up regarding Sakai adoption. Chris, in turn, is responding to a comment from Trace Urdan in Education Signals:
Sakai adoption is not meaningfully hampered by usability issues, but by obstacles to the risk/rewards of an open source solution to begin with. Wider Sakai adoption, we think, is more likely to […]
