The Future IMS – My Predictions

I’m sitting at work late, prepping for several upcoming meetings and presentations so thought I’d post a set of slides on my predictions for what the future IMS, CMS, eLMS will look like for higher ed.  Those are all fairly interchangeable acronyms and stand for (in order): instructional management system, course management system, and elearning [...]

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Two Great Free Tools and Once Again, Web 2.0 Leads the Way (a Prediction)

If you’re super connected to social networking, use different instant messaging products, have several email accounts, or want to toggle between texting to/from your cell and your computer, the first tool may be for you. It gives you instant access to, and a running stream of your Facebook updates/feeds, blends all of your IM buddies regardless of source, and provides access [...]

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Web 2.0 in Action with Michael Wesch

I’m an avid follower of Michael Wesch. You may know of him, most notably from his You Tube videos. I’ve been watching quiety for over a year now, and am ready to go full throttle modeling much of my net gen fall course experiment after his “stuff.”
Now we all have access to what he is [...]

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Avatars Go Cross-Platform

 
Last October I reported hearing Chris Melissinos from Sun Microsystems predict that in the future we’d all have Avatars which could move from platform to platform. That future may be starting to materialize. If you haven’t heard the latest news, Linden Labs (Second Life creator) and IBM have successfully collaborated on the transportation of avatars between two platforms - the Second Life Preview Grid and an OpenSim [...]

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Open Source LMS Trending Up, According to Gartner

Here’s another good Campus Technology article (Linda Briggs, 6/4/08 ) this time on higher ed trends in the field of learning management systems (LMS), utilizing data from the recent Gartner survey. I noted three primary trends from the article, which shouldn’t be particularly new or surprising, to any of you keeping a watchful eye on where [...]

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2008 Realizing Student Potential/ITeach Conference

 
I went to our annual RSP/ITeach Conference this past Friday. The conference sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning (of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system), was held last week at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. The conference brought together more than 1100 Minnesota State Colleges and Universities faculty to:

Discuss teaching in their disciplines

Demonstrate best practices in teaching

Present [...]

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Sun’s MPK20 Virtual Workplace and Open APIs

Ok, another post on virtual worlds and immersive learning environments. Sorry, but this is a huge focus of my work these days, and I’m going to be pit bull-esque on this topic, for a while. 
I just came off of a couple of days this week filled with meetings and discussions having to do with 3D virtual worlds. In fact, I had [...]

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The Future of Learning Management Systems

Great Video by Scott Leslie (The Future CMS): http://www.edtechpost.ca/gems/TheFutureCMS3.htm
I’ve pointed out this video to many of my Minnesota colleagues, but if you haven’t seen it, it’s one of the best analyses of the current and likely future state of enterprise course management systems. It was created by Scott Leslie, in November 2006. Scott is the Manager [...]

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