Category Archives: LMS

Should faculty provide students with lecture notes?

Stemming from an interesting question last week from a professor looking to control the release of his PowerPoint slides based on attendance to class, and our keyword alerts for “Brock” and “Sakai” yielded this student tweet, I was intrigued to look up any literature on the subject. https://twitter.com/milkshaiikh/status/554809257355657219 Apart from the fact that the LMS… Read More: Should faculty provide students with lecture notes? »

Reappropriating Innovation

May 13-16 I visited the lovely Thompson Rivers University campus in Kamloops, British Columbia for the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education conference. The theme was confluence, which draws on the unique geography of Kamloops, situated at the confluence of the North and South Thompson Rivers. The concept of water meeting was mimetic through many… Read More: Reappropriating Innovation »

EDCMOOC: Utopia, as x approaches c

There’s a lot to like about the EDCMOOC currently running in Coursera. It’s probably the closest thing I’ve seen to a cMOOC on an xMOOC platform. That said, the platform hinders its greatness. This course would be just about perfect if it existed entirely on the open web. Indeed, much of it does. I like… Read More: EDCMOOC: Utopia, as x approaches c »

Sakai OAE: a bazaar in the cathedral?

Last week I drew up some visual notes for the seminal article on openness:Cathedral & the Bazaar. cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by giulia.forsythe After reading some really thoughtful posts by Ken Romeo, Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein, I can’t help but wonder if the Sakai Foundation has taken too… Read More: Sakai OAE: a bazaar in the cathedral? »