Posted in HelpDesk, Online Education on Feb 25th, 2008 Comments Off
Here are a few of my favorite FREE communication tools. These should be handy for anyone who does technical user support, faculty development, online teaching, etc: Open University's OpenLearn LabSpace – FlashmeetingSet up a free account and you can host Flashmeetings which use Flash to videoconference, audioconference, shared whiteboard, chat, etc. http://labspace.open.ac.uk/ Skype (www.skype.com) – [...]
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In some parts of academe, professors hold on tightly to what they’ve created – lesson plans, content, lecture notes, a/v materials, and so on – for fear that someone will “steal” it, perhaps reuse it, remix it, or otherwise profit from it. Certainly that can happen, and it’s not right. But another idea that is [...]
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I recently noticed that a company that offers free wikis (PBwiki.com), including commercial-free wikis for educators, is advertising: Education (no IT department required!). Why is that? What could it be that would bring about this type of promotional theme? Clearly they are tapping into a widespread phenomenon regarding the relationship between IT and instructors. This [...]
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Lee LeFever has been making these excellent videos which explain many Web 2.0 concepts “in plain English.” They are simply dynamite – because they explain some concepts that are very helpful, useful, and efficient for working on the net these days – and in a way that is easy to understand, fun, and dynamic. Highly [...]
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Posted in Online Education on Aug 6th, 2007 Comments Off
A couple recent news articles in Campus Technology have pointed out: “Popularity of Online Universities Rising” and “e-Learning Market to hit $52.6 Billion by 2010.” The former article points out “by 2006, about 3.2 million college students were enrolled in at least one online course, up from 1.6 million in 2003. Eduventures, an education sector [...]
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Posted in General CIS, HelpDesk, Online Education on Jul 18th, 2007 Comments Off
How many of us have ever attended a live training session for IT software that went something like this: Things start off marvelously with coffee and doughnuts and a handout. Everyone sits down ready to begin and the instructor has people open Internet Explorer. Several people cannot find it, and several others are already working [...]
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