In my capacity as Academic Trainer and Consultant at eCollege, I facilitate a professional development course that covers the subject of developing online courses, generally with reference to best practices and specifically with reference to the eCollege LMS. To get a flavor for the student experience, course participants practice using the tools as a student [...]
A main goal of higher education is to create a community that thrives on inquiry and the development of a passion for learning fostered by a challenging faculty and a student body that doesn’t easily accept the status quo. I definitely experienced this in my undergraduate experience at a small, residential, liberal arts college. In [...]
In my last blog I discussed my steps towards joining Facebook (which, by the way, I have joined and love! I’ve even received a “monkey poop” gift from an anthropology colleague, but I digress…). One part of that discussion was the idea of personal versus professional space online, and I wondered how I would navigate [...]
What an interesting year this proved to be! An historic election, a financial crisis, and yet technology just kept speeding down the track! If you look at the “big ticket” items of 2008 from a consumer, technology standpoint, you have to look at items like the Wii, iPhone, and YouTube.
How interesting that we have [...]