Year: 2010
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Blackboard feels heat from Moodle.. gives a 'free' version
Blackboard has lost some market share to Moodle and Blackboard but they are firing back. Ray Henderson, president of the Blackboard Learn platform mentioned at Educause last week that Blackboard will be rolling out a free version of its latest products, which will be both hosted and supported, directly to teachers. Blackboard’s first foray into…
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Google Trends Analysis of Moodle
Google Trends is a public web facility of Google Inc., about Google Search, that shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages. The horizontal axis of the main graph represents time (starting from some time in 2004), and the vertical…
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Computer security? It is your business. A reprise of a 2004 campus letter.
A Reprise of an Open Letter to WOSC Technology Users on Computer/Technology Security Dated February 11, 2004. This document is as pertinent today as it was then. Your continual vigilance as end users is more important than ever to keep your computing and technology resources safe and in working order. I will add a couple…
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Student Hacker? Due Process, Student and Employee Policy
This post is an important reminder of why it is important to follow process and implement process fairly. This story starts out as an alleged student hacking case at Rogers State University and evolves or devolves (depending on your point of view I suppose) in a wild set of circumstances. It is newsworthy on the…
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Kent vs. the Killer Bees, Micheal Wesch "The Explainer" and A Wee Acorn Amongst the Giant Oaks
I was just thinking that I have this video in another location, but it will be easier to find in its own separate post. What a great couple of learning days at the Heartland elearning conference. Actually I have been on a a week and a half roll. First the League for Innovation at the…