Archive for the 'Instructional Design' Category



Desire2Learn Competencies and Rubrics, Part II

I’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 […]

Common Cartridge: e-Learning Made Easy

This is a guest blog post by Jim Farmer, Coordinator, Scholarly Systems Group at Georgetown University and editor at the eReSS project, University of Hull.
On September 4, 2007, a summer morning in Adelphi, Maryland, the workgroup, breakfast in hand, slowly assembled into in a large conference room at the University of Maryland, University College (UMUC). […]

‘Dracula Blogged’ Restarts Today

“Dracula Blogged,” one of my favorite blog-based literary/pedagogical experiments, restarts today. The core idea is that the dated entries from Dracula (which was written in diary format) are delivered as blog posts on their actual dates. So, for example, the first entry in the novel, dated “3 May,” went live today. It’s a wonderful way […]

Visualizations of Online Social Archives, Part I

It’s not often that you find a graduate thesis that is actually fun to read, but that’s exactly what I found in Revealing individual and collective pasts: Visualization of online social archives by Fernanda Bertini Viegas, an alumna of MIT’s Media Lab. The bibliography alone is worth the trip; she does an amazing job of […]

Bodington Review, Part I

Here’s an interesting announcement out of the UK:
The Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Hull, and the UHI Millennium Institute announce the formation of the Tetra Collaboration, the outcome of a series of meetings and a major summit held at the University of Oxford on the 25th-26th September 2006.
The goal of the Tetra Collaboration is to coordinate […]





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