29 Jun, 2009
Remix Textbooks the Way You Want With FlexbooksPosted by: Matt Crosslin In: Current Events
“Why should we have to pay for chapters we don’t use in textbooks?” We have all had this problem with textbooks. There only seems to be two options for instructors when it comes to choosing textbooks for class: get a large book with 20-something chapters and only use 14 or 15, or get several smaller [...]
One conference down, one more to go. I’ll be heading out to NUTN 2009 next week. But this past week I was at the Sloan-C International Symposium on Emerging Technology Applications for Online Learning. Quite a mouthful. I saw some interesting sessions on some new products that I plan on blogging about in the future. [...]
16 Jun, 2009
Opera Unite Brings In a New Idea Out of Left FieldPosted by: Matt Crosslin In: Current Events| LMS New Vision| Learning Management Systems
Okay… scratch my last post. What if the browser was your LMS? Think about it – what is the biggest problems with most social networking sites? Privacy and ownership of content. Huge battles are being fought over who owns what when you upload it and issues like “how private is your stuff anyways?” Opera released [...]
10 Jun, 2009
Will LMS Companies Ever Get Into Browser Plug-ins?Posted by: Matt Crosslin In: Learning Management Systems| Online Tools
I was pondering Learning Management Systems this morning. I do that way too much. Maybe Google Wave will get released soon and it really will be able to deliver on the hype and all my problems will be solved! But until then… got to ponder….
FireFox plug-ins are pretty nifty little deals. And many of them [...]
03 Jun, 2009
Been Slugged Lately Online? Do You Even Know What That Means?Posted by: Matt Crosslin In: Current Events
I was a little shocked to see how little I could find about “slugging” in online learning when I searched recently. Maybe I was doing a bad search. Slugging is basically a way students can cheat by extending their deadline. All you do is take a non-text file… an image, flash file, whatever… and change [...]
02 Jun, 2009
EduPunk Movement Gains More AttentionPosted by: Matt Crosslin In: LMS New Vision| Learning Management Systems
If you haven’t already read the interesting article on how some colleges are weighing using blogs instead of Blackboard at The Chronicle, check it out here:
Colleges Consider Using Blogs Instead of Blackboard
It has a fairly balanced look at both sides of the issue. The last paragraph proves my point that I have made over [...]
Everything Google does gets hype. So you probably already read all there is known (so far) about Google Wave. For the two anti-Google people out there in the world that just refuse to read anything about Google, it is said to be a new way to communicate online, based on new concepts of how we [...]
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