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Tablet ownership amongst students growing rapidly
I have been predicting the increase of tablet computing in the general endpoint ecology for some time, and others have been there with me. Just last year there was a study which showed that students were ready to go to … Continue reading
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Tagged Dev, education, Elearning, eresources, higher education, online, web 2.0
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Effectiveness of fully on-line courses for HE
I and many others have been writing about online learning for some time, asking what mix is most effective and what needs to happen to help students succeed with this medium. Meanwhile, there has been increasing pressure to increase enrollments … Continue reading
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Interview with Center for 21st Century Universities
Chronicle did an interesting, if too brief, interview with Richard A. DeMillo and Paul M.A. Baker, of the Center for 21st Century Universities where they discussed the threat to traditional HEs who focused on the wrong value proposition and tried … Continue reading
Social Network Analysis tool for LMS fora
SNAPP is an interesting browser bookmarklet that will analyse a forum and build a social graph of the participants, providing a way to model interactions of the forum participants. This is a neat project that feeds into the growing domain … Continue reading
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Tagged ai, comp sci, education, learning analytics, LMS, online, VLE
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Two new platforms to rival Apple ebook platform recently announced
There was quite a bit of activity recently over the announcement by Apple of iBooks Author. Now two other platforms are gaining some profile regarding their offerings. To me, it just shows à al Christensen, how ripe the market is … Continue reading
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Tagged copyright, Elearning, eresources, higher education, OER, online, publishing, university
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Interent2 Net+ Services
Internet2 Net+ is a group of emerging services that foster collective development and utilization of service offerings, some of the commercial, to campuses in the U.S.. Specific offerings currently offered include: Cloud Services: Internet2 works with third-party vendors to provide … Continue reading
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Apollo Group buys Carnegie Learning for $75M
Apollo Group runs the University of Phoenix, a for-profit that is taking huge growth in the US HE sector, has announced that it is paying $75 Million to Carnegie Mellon’s Carnegie Learning, formed by researchers at the university in 1998. … Continue reading
Aaron Schwartz rough handedness from Feds at behest of MIT raising alarm bells
I first wrote about Aaron Schwartz when it went public about what he was alleged to have done, and again with protests against his arrest and Aaron’s own writings about his cause. Now more information is coming out and it … Continue reading
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Tracking in your browser with site cookies, how to monitor, how to stop it
DuckDuckGo has a well worthwhile explanation of what is going on that any heavy user of internet traffic who is privacy minded, or even privacy curious, should read. The fact that these profiles are being sold to the likes of … Continue reading
OpenData for UK Government pushing Semantic Web development for government transparency
The UK Government recently committed to more open data when David Cameron announced the broadening of the publicly available government data with the publishing of key data on the National Health Service, schools, criminal courts and transport. This is a … Continue reading