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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Posted in General CIS on Aug 16th, 2007 1 Comment »
It seems to me that the world is headed in a direction that will lead us far away from any face to face interaction that we now experience. We spend more time communicating through a means of 1 and 0′s even though we are only several feet away from each other. People are coming closer [...]
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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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