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Faculty and administrators collaborating for e-learning courseware

Another Educause gem today, “Faculty and Administrators Collaborating for E-Learning Courseware .” It mirrors a lot of what the eteam worked on this summer — incentives and funding, misconceptions. But it also hits hard at ownership and usage rights. The eteam didn’t spell out a clear recommendations in those areas, but this article gives 3 paths to take….
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Chris Dede article in latest Educause quarterly

I just got an email with the latest articles in Educause quarterly. I was excited to see 3 of great interest. The top one being Chris Dede’s “Planning for Neomillennial Learning Styles .” I’ve raved about Dede here before (search on the right for Dede). This article touches on….
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sloan-c consortium has taken to moodle

I just noticed that sloan-c has chosen moodle for its asynchronous environment for its workshop series “sloan-c online workshop series: how online can be better than on-ground: constructivism, collaboration, community “. You’ll recognize sloan-c from …
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How distance learning changes faculty

From Online Learning Update , I found this article entitled “How Distance Learning Changes Faculty .” It’s a quick read. Based on the experiences of 6 faculty teaching online MBA courses, the author talks about ….
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Adobe Acrobat 7 does RSS to PDF

From this article , the new version of Acrobat can aggregate RSS feeds into PDF files. This is just wrong.
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Moodle and social constructivism 2

OK, I read the article . It’s pretty short. You should give it a look. It highlighted how constructivism can clash with the instructional design process. This’ll prove interesting with the proposed summer online courses that will pilot moodle. Online courses are heavily designed……
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