Tag Archives: On-the-Horizon

The ‘On the Horizon’ Series Is Complete

By Michael Feldstein | Published: July 20, 2008
With Jim Farmer’s post, we have completed the series. I want to thank both the authors and the readers who have commented on this post. I’m hopeful that this process has shaped the final product, which will be a journal issue published some time early next year. We hope to have the contents of that [...]
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Distributed Learning is Here: Ask Any College Student

By Jim Farmer | Published: July 20, 2008
This is a guest post by Jim Farmer for a special issue on distributed learning environments for On the Horizon. Jim is Coordinator, Scholarly Systems Group at Georgetown University and editor at the eReSS project, University of Hull. This fall more than 17 million students will be using publisher-provided online services. More than 5 million students [...]
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A Service-Oriented Virtual Learning Environment

By Andrew Booth | Published: July 9, 2008
This is a guest post by Andrew G. Booth and Brian P. Clark for On the Horizon series on distributed learning. Professor Andrew G. Booth, a National Teaching Fellow, is Professor of Online Learning in the Faculty of Biological Sciences in the University of Leeds where he has deployed the Bodington System to support [...]
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Web 2.0 LMS Opportunities and Obstacles: Exploring OpenSocial, OpenID,and OpenCourseWare in NIXTY

By Glen Moriarty | Published: July 8, 2008
This is a guest post by Glen Moriarty, PsyD, for the On the Horizon series on distributed learning environments. Glen, who is CEO of NIXTY, has served in several executive and academic positions. He co-founded and led Scholar360 for several years. He is also a licensed psychologist and educator who has taught at the doctoral [...]
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Creating a Social Portfolio

By Nathan Garrett | Published: July 8, 2008
This is a guest post by Nathan Garrett for the On the Horizon series on distributed learning environments. Nathan is two weeks from being an PhD Candidate at Claremont Graduate University, where he has been going to school since 2003. He pays bills by working as an Institutional Researcher at Woodbury University. Nathan researches [...]
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