Category Archives: Usability and Human Factors

Social Software in an Academic Context is Hard

Posted on September 19, 2010 by

A couple of things have gotten me musing about social lately. The first was Dave Cormier’s thought-provoking blog post about how PLEs are supposed to disaggregate power, not people. The second was a private conversation with a friend who is … Continue reading →

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Instructure Canvas: A New LMS Entrant

Posted on June 30, 2010 by

We’re making progress on getting the Sakai conference keynote videos online, but while we wait for those to be ready for the kick-off to the conference post series, I’d like to take advantage of the unexpected lull to write a … Continue reading →

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Blackboard's iPad App and its implications

Posted on April 6, 2010 by

Ray Henderson has a post up about his sense of responsibility to customers regarding balancing innovation with mature products (careful refinements in features and support services to meet customer needs) versus innovation in new areas (bold thinking and experiments). It’s … Continue reading →

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Open Wonderland

Posted on March 30, 2010 by

This is a guest post by Nicole Yankelovich, the Executive Director of the OpenWonderland Foundation. As the Executive Director of the newly formed Open Wonderland Foundation, I get asked a lot about the value of virtual worlds for education. As … Continue reading →

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Moodle, Wave, and Widgets (Oh my!)

Posted on October 15, 2009 by

Scott Wilson , Paul Sharples, Dai Griffiths and Kris Popat have an article up on their work embedding Wave-enabled widgets into Moodle using Wookie. (Try saying that ten times fast.) What they envision is very similar in a lot of … Continue reading →

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