Update: Here is a press release with a little more information. Well, it’s official. Three of SUNY’s 4 university centers (University at Buffalo, Stony Brook University, and Binghamton University) will jointly offer a fully online degree in electrical engineering. I’m told that this is the first degree of its kind. The program is being funded […]
Archives for 2005
WebCT and Open Source
James Farmer has a bee in his bonnet about the fact that WebCT is integrating Open Source components such as PHPWiki into the LMS. he writes, …[T]he essence is that WebCT, as far as I can tell, are now ‘integrating’ and are planning to integrate a huge swathe of open source tools essentially into WebCT […]
"Signature Pedaogies" = Educational Pattern Languages?
Chris Correa has a thought-provoking post on something called “signature pedagogies.” Here’s an excerpt: Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation, shared some of the preliminary results from the foundation’s studies of professional education (including the education of lawyers, doctors, clergy, teachers, and others). He introduced the notion of signature pedagogies, or (as I understood it) […]
Small Tools/Big Ideas: Integrating Technologies for Teaching Art and Art History
FIT will be hosting a great conference this October on teaching visual topics online using tools that afford social learning. The conference is just a bit of a misnomer, since much of the content will be relevant and valuable to a more general audience than just art and art history instructors; it’s really about teaching […]
SUNY's Learning Environments Task Force Report
One of the projects at work that has been keeping me very busy is finally finished and in shape that I can talk about it publicly. The SUNY Learning Network is in the process of planning a transition to a new learning management platform, yet to be identified. We took this opportunity to get some […]
e-Portfolios and Personal Content Management–Rip, Mix, Burn
Last week I had the pleasure of spending most of my working week at CIT, which is SUNY’s instructional technology conference and also the largest SUNY-wide conference of the year. It was really exciting to see so many folks from all across the system engaged in thinking about how to “teach different” (to steal a […]
Learning Objects and Stutter Points
A while back I had the opportunity to hear Kevin Harrigan speak about CLOE, an Ontario-based feeder repository system for MERLOT. The group in attendance had just finished a quick rehash of the old and not terribly illuminating “what is a learning object” debate. Kevin (and CLOE) have a refreshing take on the whole mess. […]