Bandwidth on Demand
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Moodlerooms Supports LSU’s Move to Moodle
Louisiana State University has signed on with Moodlerooms to provide support, hosting, and other services for its Moodle deployment. As we reported in November, LSU is replacing two learning management systems on its campus with Moodle, an open-source LMS/CMS popular in higher education and elsewhere.Read the Full Article
Elluminate Brings (Another) Virtual Classroom to Moodle
Elluminate Bridge allows Moodle users to access real-time Elluminate Live! sessions, which incorporate the following dazzling features:Read the Full Article
Download Report: 2008 Horizon Report –Six Areas of Emerging Technology
The New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) jointly produced Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years. The 2008 report focuses on the following topics;Grassroots VideoCollaboration WebsMobile BroadbandData MashupsCollective IntelligenceSocial Operating SystemsRead […]
Student engagement in distance learning environments: A comparison of threaded discussion forums and text-focused Wikis
The purpose of this study was to improve the quality of students’ online discussion of assigned readings in an online course. To improve the focus, depth, and connectedness of online discussion, the first author designed a text-focused Wiki that simultaneously displayed the assigned reading and students’ comments side by side in adjacent columns. In the […]
Online Teaching and Classroom Change: The Trans-Classroom Teacher in the Age of the Internet
Online and face-to-face courses are often viewed and studied as two distinct worlds, but the social field of the teacher who teaches them may well include both, and both the teacher and the courses he or she teaches may be transformed by the movement from one environment to the other. Susan Lowes explores this two-way […]
Cell phones tackle reading, language barriers
New technologies that enable cell phones to translate speech on the fly and read documents for the visually impaired could have important implications for both educators and students. Read the Full Article
FSU professor: Online music course, which athletes cheated on, was a ‘state-of-the-art class’
TALLAHASSEE – The professor of the online music course that is the focal point of Florida State’s investigation into academic fraud by athletes told the Orlando Sentinel he “wrote a beautiful class and it was abused.”Read the Full Article
House Bill Would Alter College Cost Provisions
When the full House of Representatives begins its consideration Thursday of legislation to renew the Higher Education Act, much of the focus will still be on the price of college. But the bill that lawmakers will be discussing, a draft of which began circulating over the weekend, takes a more tailored approach to the scrutiny […]
Virtual reality campus draws students
Computer program Second Life allows users to enter a virtual world with a very real economy, and a MUN business prof is putting the popular virtual world to work for him and his class. Read the Full Article