Category Archives: Usability and Human Factors

Open Wonderland

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Nicole.Yankelovich

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 Michael Feldstein

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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Sakai Boston 2009: The State of the Union

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Michael Feldstein

I have a terrible backblog of posts that I will try to catch up on over the next few days, starting with my obligatory Sakai conference summary. Since last conference represented something of a watershed, I wasn’t sure if I … Continue reading →

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Advice for Small Schools on the LMS Selection Process

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Michael Feldstein

I have volunteered to give my local community college some advice regarding some LMS migration decisions they have to make—if to migrate, when to migrate, how to migrate, and so on. In many ways, they’re a pretty typical school with … Continue reading →

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Sakai 3 Screencast

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Michael Feldstein

Michael Korcuska has a new screencast up showing some of the concepts planned for Sakai 3:   I really like what he’s doing here. These multimedia narratives of concepts still in development should greatly increase the amount and quality of … Continue reading →

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