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Must-Read: Campbell and Oblinger on Academic Analytics

By Michael Feldstein | October 21, 2007

John Campbell and Diana Oblinger have co-authored an EDUCAUSE paper on academic analytics that anyone with a practical interest in the topic should read. To begin with, it is a model of how to write a paper that addresses multiple institutional stakeholders across very different domains of expertise. It starts with a clear overview of [...]

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ANGEL’s Open Source Move

By Michael Feldstein | October 11, 2007

ANGEL Learning has announced that they have incorporated TiddlyWiki into their product and that they have released the source code to the enhancements. What the announcement doesn’t mention is that the company also made a financial contribution to TiddlyWiki’s main developer Jeremy Ruston in recognition and support of his work.
I happen to have had a [...]

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Thoughts on “Analytics” and Privacy

By Michael Feldstein | September 11, 2007

Last week at the IMS conference, the LTAC (Learning Technology Advisory Council) had an interesting and, I think, fruitful discussion about “analytics.” In this context, the term umbrella term covers various types of data analysis that would be useful in helping ensure that more students learn more and better. One example that came up a [...]

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Should Universities Patent Their Research? Universities Say Yes. But should they?

By Jim Farmer | August 26, 2007

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.
At the December 2006 Sakai Conference in Atlanta many expressed the view that patents inhibit collaboration and innovation in teaching and learning. But that was not the view expressed by higher [...]

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What Really Happened at SUNY: Another View

By Michael Feldstein | July 7, 2007

For those of you who wanted to hear more of the gory details regarding the death of SLN2, my good friend Patrick Masson has lifted the veil just a little bit higher in a recent blog post. As a side note, I am thrilled to see Patrick join the blogosphere. His blog, “CIoh-no!”, presents a [...]

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