Author: Patric Lougheed

Scaffolding ePortfolio use

Presentation by Kristina Hoeppner (Catalyst IT) at Mahara Hui in Auckland, New Zealand, on 9 April 2015. Scaffolding ePortfolio use from Kristina D.C. Hoeppner   Slides are available at http://slides.com/anitsirk/scaffoldin… and http://www.slideshare.net/4nitsirk/sc… (download) Licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA…

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Open Source web conferencing software BigBlueButton v0.9.0 released!

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  I am very excited to see v0.9.0 released even though I have been running and testing it for many months now. Now that it supports running on current versions of Ubuntu and has an HTML5 client in the…

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Mahara 15.04 update brings improved functionality

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My recent update of my eportfolio site, Folioz, went without a hitch and the Mahara update brings many new improvements. The ability to choose/upload images from the editor is long overdue and has always been a glaring limitation…

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Great changes in Etherpad-lite v1.5.5 release.

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Etherpad-lite is an open source collaborative document editor written in Nodejs. I have mine using a MongoDB as the database and a whack load of plugins to improve formatting options. It runs standalone and is very simple to integrate…

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The creative act of listening to a talking frog

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How Course Web Design Impacts Student Engagement — Campus Technology

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Cloud-based applications have the advantage of generating lots of usage data that can give developers insights about how customers are using their products. Rarely, however, do companies share the data publicly. But that’s exactly what Instructure did when…

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What Makes an Online Instructional Video Compelling? EDUCAUSE Review Excerpts

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Video has supported education for many years, and instructional videos are often a key component in online courses. Video has the ability to convey material through auditory and visual channels, creating a multi-sensory learning environment. Yet much remains…

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Ed Tech Is Poised to Go Mainstream – Forbes

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Great that Forbes is writing about the knowledge shift occurring in society but “Digital Natives”? Really? The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation forecasts that 50% of high school classes will be online by 2019. For some, this…

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35 Psychology-Based Learning Strategies For Deeper Learning

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Have you ever considered letting your students listen to hardcore punk while they take their mid-term exam? Decided to do away with Power Point presentations during your lectures? Urged your students to memorize more in order to remember…

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Who are the Learning Technologists? – Abridged Version

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The first thing you soon discover is that there are many labels or slogans for learning technology; these include educational technology, academic technology and instructional technology to name but a few. via the accidental technologist » Blog Archive…

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