Author: Michael Paskevicius
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NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Higher Education Edition
The 2013 Horizon Report is now available on the New Media Consortium website. The Horizon Report is a yearly publication which identifies trends and technologies to watch in higher education. It is definitely something I look forward to reviewing each year. From the projects website: The NMC Horizon Project is a decade-long research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to…
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Personal Message from John Baker, President & CEO of Desire2Learn
We know it has been a tough week for faculty and students working with Desire2Learn at VIU. We thank you all for your patience and perseverance. We’ve just received a personal message from John Baker, President & CEO of Desire2Learn that we wanted to share with the VIU community. Members of the Vancouver Island University…
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Lecture Casting: Echo360 Presentation
On Thursday last week I attended a presentation from the folks at Echo360 about their range of lecture capture solutions. The presentation was hosted down at Camosun College in Victoria. We were delighted to be invited to attend by our colleagues at the Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning at Camosun. From what I…
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British Columbia Desire2Learn Regional User Forum
On Friday, Liesel and I shared Vancouver Island University’s journey this year working with Desire2Learn at the British Columbia Desire2Learn Regional User Forum held at BCIT in Vancouver. The conference brought together about 60 participants from institutions in BC and as far as Alberta to hear what was on the horizon with Desire2Learn and share their experiences. In our presentation we reflected on our experience…
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State of the Learning Management System Marketplace 2012
Source: The Delta Initiative – shared under a CC BY-ND license I always enjoy the Delta Initiative’s round up of what is going on in the learning environment market. The latest infographic shows the current market share for the major software producers of learning management systems. Most notable on this graphic for me: The returned growth of the home…
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Finding openly licensed audio and music
I was searching for a piece of audio today for a short video that I am putting together. While I can think of a number of popular pieces of music which would suit my need, I would be breaching copyright by simply using it directly in my video. Especially since I want to eventually…
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Creating OER and Combining Licenses Video
Just stumbled upon this great animated video which may be helpful to instructors wanting to explore using open educational resources (OER) in their instructional material. The first part of the video is really useful for people getting started with OER, and the second part gets into the details of combining open licenses while respecting the range of license terms. The video was created by the good people at the Orange Grove repository, Florida’s digital…
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‘Why Open Education Matters’ video competition winner
Below find the winning entry for the ‘Why Open Education Matters’ video competition launched earlier this year by Creative Commons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Open Society Foundation. The winning video was produced by the Blinktower creative agency based in Cape Town, South Africa. Great to see the winning video come out of South Africa! You can…
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Daphne Koller shares what Coursera is learning from online education
Coursera is a new education technology for-profit company founded by computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller from Stanford University. The website provides freely accessible online courses in the fields of Computer Science, Healthcare, Humanities and Social Science, Mathematics and and commerce. Each course typically includes short video lectures and assignments to be submitted,…
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Fusion 2012 Reflections: Khan Academy Keynote
Last week a small delegation of staff form the Innovation and Excellence in Learning Centre attended the Desire2Learn (D2L) User Group Conference, called Fusion 2012, in San Diego, California. The conference is a great opportunity to network with other D2L administrators, users and instructors to discuss best practices for supporting, training and using the learning management system. Overall…
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The Evolution of the Web Visualization from Google
Check out the beautiful evolution of the web interactive visualization created by the Google Chrome team. You can view the evolution of browsers and web technologies as well as the growth of the internet in terms of users and traffic. The amount of change and development in the web space in the last two years is remarkable!…
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Educational Technology User Group (ETUG) Spring Workshop 2012
A couple weeks ago we attended the British Columbia Educational Technology User Group (ETUG) Spring Workshop at Vancouver Community College in downtown Vancouver. This was my first opportunity to engage with the ETUG community and I was thoroughly impressed! ETUG brings together academics, educational technologists, instructional designers and information technologists to share ideas and best practices around teaching with technology.…