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Blog Post: Where On Your Resume Should You Put Non-Credit Online Courses?
There's been a lot of attention lately, here, elsewhere in the blogosphere, and even in the mainstream media, on those free (or in Purdue's case almost free) online courses that don't offer credit, but do teach interesting and useful things. From Artificial Intelligence and other computing topics through Stanford, to courses on a variety of topics from Harvard and MIT through their … [Read More...]
Where Online Learning is an Interactive Conversation
Indiana University/Purdue University (IPFW) offers more than 200 academic programs from its campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Traditional face-to-face classes make up a majority of the courses, but online classes are growing fast due to demand from more than 12,000 students. In an effort to stimulate learning in online classes, the university’s Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching … [Read More...]
Blog Post: Purdue University Joins The Party
Recently there have been an awful lot of announcements about big name colleges and universities (and some not so big name ones that are still interesting) offering free online non-credit courses. … [Read More...]
Blog Post: Purdue University Joins The Party
Recently there have been an awful lot of announcements about big name colleges and universities (and some not so big name ones that are still interesting) offering free online non-credit courses. … [Read More...]
Blog Post: An eLearning Graduate Reflects On How It’s Done
Congratulations are in order to many people finishing their degrees at this time of year, but a special tip of the hat goes out to Nick Sproull, who's completing a Master's degree with a … [Read More...]
Blog Post: An eLearning Graduate Reflects On How It’s Done
Congratulations are in order to many people finishing their degrees at this time of year, but a special tip of the hat goes out to Nick Sproull, who's completing a Master's degree with a … [Read More...]
Catalyst Awards Celebrate Innovation in Teaching and Learning
Every year at Blackboard we look to celebrate educators and instructors with the annual Catalyst Awards. With the Blackboard Catalyst Awards, we recognize teaching and learning achievements and … [Read More...]
Basic LTI: The Capabilities Explained
Last week the IMS Global Learning Consortium announced its certification of the Basic LTI 1.1 standard, and at this week’s IMS Learning Impact conference in Toronto you’ll hear much more from the … [Read More...]
Blog Post: Open Textbooks Get University Support
As covered in this space from time to time, there's an ever strengthening movement among educators to increase options available to schools, instructors, and students by developing open education … [Read More...]
Blog Post: A Cautionary Tale About Rankings
When it comes to deciding to which schools to apply, it's clearly a big decision. You want as much information about your choices as you can possibly get. What's the student to faculty … [Read More...]
Blog Post: University Of The People Continues To Gain Steam
For those unfamiliar with the University of the People, it's an attempt from educational entrepreneur Shai Reshef to establish a university that uses eLearning to make degree programs available to … [Read More...]
Blog Post: Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!
The National Parent Teacher Association has designated this week as Teacher Appreciation Week: Teachers — the people who educate us and give us the vital knowledge which we need to live our … [Read More...]
Learning Analytics Techniques that Connect the Dots
The BbWorld 2012 Conference will focus on five key themes that matter to you: Social Learning, Digital Content, Technology Adoption, Mobility and now Analytics in Action. I am pleased to say that … [Read More...]
Announcing Your 2012 VIP Bloggers!
BbWorld 2012, Blackboard’s education technology conference, is happening this summer in New Orleans! And we called upon you to be our VIP bloggers from the event! We received over 30 blog entries as … [Read More...]
Increase Enrollment and Retention with Blackboard Connect
Universities across the world are facing challenges to increase student enrollment and maintain retention. With the uncertain economic climate and the constantly increasing tuition prices at 4-year … [Read More...]
Blog Post: Student Loan Interest Rate Relief Defeated By Senate
Recently in this space was an explanation of the proposed Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 and then some analysis of what the drawbacks of that approach might be. But with current and former … [Read More...]
Blackboard Collaborate Hall of Fame and Guns ‘N Roses
Just last week I tuned in to HBO to watch the induction ceremony of the Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2012. Since I hail from Cleveland – the hometown of the Rock Hall – I always try to … [Read More...]
Enter the New VTBE and Math Editor for Learn…
As the Technical Product Manager for Blackboard Learn much of the work I do lives behind the scenes and has minimal visual impact on day-to-day Blackboard Learn usage. Today I’m excited to write … [Read More...]
Professional & Career Colleges Twitter Chat (#4profitchat) Recap!
A few weeks ago, we hosted our first-ever professional colleges and universities Twitter chat (#4profitchat). During the chat, we learned a lot about trends in learning technology from our guest … [Read More...]
Blog Post: Media, Popular Reactions To edX Show Misunderstanding About eLearning
Winston Churchill famously remarked that the best argument against democracy was a five minute conversation with the average voter. And I once wrote that most callers to talk radio shows do their … [Read More...]
Blog Post: Media, Popular Reactions To edX Show Misunderstanding About eLearning
Winston Churchill famously remarked that the best argument against democracy was a five minute conversation with the average voter. And I once wrote that most callers to talk radio shows do their … [Read More...]
