Monthly Archives: June 2008

Blackboard Inc. Shows Deep Compassion for Desire2Learn Customers

By Michael Feldstein | June 18, 2008

As expected, Blackboard has taken Desire2Learn back to court, claiming that 8.3 still infringes and charging them with contempt. Interestingly, the news of this showed up simultaneously in Inside Higher Education, THE Journal, and The Chronicle. It looks like Blackboard may have something to say that they want to make sure we all hear.
What could [...]

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Repositioning institutional approaches to technology in the context of Web 2.0, Personal Learning Environments and Utility Computing: A cybernetic approach

By Scott Wilson |

This is a guest post by Scott Wilson and Kamala Velayutham for On the Horizon series on distributed learning. Scott is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Educational Cybernetics at the University of Bolton, and author of various publications on the topic of personal learning environments. He is also Assistant Director of the JISC [...]

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SocialLearn: Bridging the Gap Between Web 2.0 and Higher Education

By Martin Weller | June 16, 2008

This is a guest post by Martin Weller for the On the Horizon series on distributed learning environments. Martin is Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University in the UK (OUUK). In 1998 he created the first major elearning course at the OUUK, which attracted over 12,000 students annually. He then went on to [...]

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Distributed Learning Environment Posts Coming

By Michael Feldstein |

I am delighted to announce the beginning of a series of guest posts on distributed learning environments by the authors who will be contributing to a forthcoming special double issue on the topic in On the Horizon. Each post will provide an introduction to the article that will appear in the issue when it is [...]

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I, Too, Am a Twit

By Michael Feldstein | June 13, 2008

For a long time, I vowed never to get sucked into Twitter. The idea of broadcasting my every belch and hiccup to the world in real time just struck me as absurdly narcissistic. Of course, I made exactly the same vow about blogging for largely the same reason back in the day and, well, here [...]

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