By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Post Script to #AMEE2014 #PCW16 Workshop on Personalising Learning
Natalie Lafferty, eLime, 2015/09/07
I had the chance to listen to Natalie Lafferty today during the debate on whether online learning is a valuable tool in learning (spoiler: it is) and I thought I'd go back and have a look at her preconference workshop slides, contained here in this post. More...
Dev Camps are events that enable participants to tackle challenges us- ing software tools and different kinds of hardware devices in collaborative pro- ject-style activities. More...
By Phil Hill. For a large portion of our readers who deal mostly with US higher education, it could be easy to dismiss Moodle as an LMS and an idea past its prime. Market data from Edutechnica shows that since 2013 the number of adopting US institutions has hit a plateau, but the total number of students served (number of institutions using Moodle as primary LMS scaled by enrollment) has actually decreased. More...
By Phil Hill. What interesting timing. Just as I published my interview with Martin Dougiamas, I was notified that Totara LMS, a Moodle derivative aimed at the corporate learning market, has forked from Moodle and is changing its relationship with the Moodle Community. More...
By Andrew Barbour. In implementing any major tech initiative on campus today, the greatest challenges tend to revolve more around change management than technical issues. More...
By . In the wake of the multimedia resources boom in campus courses across the world, sifting through hour-long recorded presentations or hundreds of pages of online text to find specific information can be like trying to find the keyword needle in a massive academic haystack. But that’s about to change. More...
By Eric Stoller. Last week, my MacBook Pro stopped working. It was a Monday morning and I was reading an email when the screen on my external display flickered and then went blank. I unplugged the monitor and opening my laptop's clam shell. It was at that moment that the laptop restarted on its own. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. My MacBook Air is in the shop for repairs.
Somehow the com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService service is going crazy, pegging the %CPU at over 150%. The result has been that the Air freezes up when attaching a document to an e-mail, or even sometimes saving a Text file. Clearly sub-optimal. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Have you downloaded Jonathan Franzen’s new novel Purity yet. Read more...
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