Monthly Archives: March 2004

Nice! Ten Efficient Research Strategies for Distance Learning

After reading “Thirty-two Trends Affecting Distance Education: An Informed Foundation for Strategic Planning LINK” I should have expected to find another excellent article that involves the BYU group… and they did not disappoint… From the Online Journal of Distance Learning … Continue reading

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Blog Weary? NY Times

The New York Times article Blog-Bleary? Try (What Else?) a Blog tackles ways to keep up with high volumes of Blog traffic. The main purpose of the article seems to to announce a new service — Kinja http://www.kinja.com (which opens … Continue reading

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Checklist for Quality Distance Courses — Oreg. Su

Oregon State University has a nice checklist for developing Distance Education courses. Quality Assurance Checklist, Faculty Resources, Oregon State University Extended Campus The checklist includes both the department and course needs — the overall development strategy.

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Colston Research Society Conference Weblog

Paul Browning from Bristol pointed to this symposium — Colston Symposium 2004, held recently at Bristol. The theme is near and dear to our hearts, I think: “The Evolution of Learning and Web Technologies: Survival of the Fittest?” Looks like … Continue reading

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Presentations from Sun 2004 Worldwide Education and Research Conference

Link received via a mailing list, the presentations from Sun’s 2004 Worldwide Education and Research Conference, held March1-3, 2004, Madrid, Spain. The presentations represet a mix of Sun Microsystem and Education sector speakers. Some interesting pointers to projects in Grid … Continue reading

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UBC’s CMS Steering Committee

After more than a year of planning, meetings and conversations, we’ve established a Steering Committee, as outlined in: New Steering Committee Launched to Guide UBC’s Course Management System . We have very high hopes for this model. UBC obviously has … Continue reading

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e e learning

Funny what happens when you get your head above water and look at your own blog again… You find out that one of your friends has a cool weblog. Ok, I think he actually told me that he did.. but … Continue reading

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BBC-Biology Society to Go Digital

Somthing that Cyprien may find of interest… BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Biology society to go digital The Linnean Society’s collections comprise almost 40,000 specimens of plants, insects, fish and shells, many of which date to the 18th Century. The … Continue reading

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Use of Blogs – Syllabus

Saw this in eLearnSpace – and enjoyed reading Sarah Robert’s article on the emergence of weblogs at Duke University, Campus Communications & the Wisdom of Blogging. This was originally published in August.. and I remember seeing it then.. but a … Continue reading

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Blog Feature List brainstorm

My buddy Paul has started to look seriously at blogs… He has developed out an interesting Blog feature list…. Harkens back to to the Edtech list discussion on weblogs .. particularly the “matrix“

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