D’Arcy has a very useful wiki page up outlining all the various dimensions of the huge, amorphous blog sometimes known as “ePortfolios.” This is why there will never be just one class of ePortfolio apps .
Speaking at AACE Ed-Media Next Month
I’ll be participating in the Association for Advancement of Computing in Education‘s Ed-Media 2006 Conference on James Dalziel‘s panel as part of the Learning Management Systems Symposium. Here’s the description of the panel: It only took a decade for the LMS to go from being a good idea to being a software system used by […]
BRR Report Published
I am pleased to announce that our report on BRR and LMSs for the Observatory on Borderless higher education has been published. Here’s the description: Apples to Apples: Guidelines for Comparative Evaluation of Proprietary and Open Educational Technology Systems Ken Udas and Michael Feldstein, SUNY Learning Network at the State University of New York, USA […]
Wikis to Go
Speaking of Murugan, he has a great post up about making wikis work offline and points to the nice Wiki2Go tool. At SLN, we think having offline capabilities are valuable for faculty (and, personally, I think they are at least as valuable for students as well). As Murugan points out, there is some common ground […]
A Conversation About BRR and LMSs
I’ve been meaning to write this up for a couple of weeks now. Ken Udas and I recently had a great conversation with folks from OpenBRR and Edutools/WCET about creating a community and framework to evaluate both Open Source and proprietary LMSs, drawing on the knowledge and resources of both OpenBRR and Edutools. In attendance […]
If They Build It, Will We Come?
Cole Camplese has a great post about FaceBook: FaceBook is a social networking service that about 85% of the college student population uses. A quick survey of my class this semester showed me that 44 out of 45 students were in the FB. It is amazing how much time and energy students give to their […]
ePort(able)Folios
Last week I had the pleasure of moderating a conference on ePortfolios at SUNY Brockport. Unfortunately, the audio on WebEX apparently died early on, so there is no online archive available. It’s too bad. It was a great conference. Anyway, I’ve said on a number of occasions that ePortfolios are a lot like artificial intelligence […]