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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.…
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Welcome to the Educational Technology Blog at VIU!
Hi everyone! I’ve started this blog to share the progress of various technologies we will be rolling out for academics and students at Vancouver Island University. Lots of exciting things are happening in the Innovation and Excellence in Learning Centre which we look forward to sharing with you. In the next few months we will be…
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Welcome to the Vancouver Island University blogging network
Welcome to WordPress@VIU. Wordpress is being offered and supported by the Innovation and Excellence in Learning Centre at Vancouver Island University. WordPress blogs can be used by faculty to design and develop standalone websites, contribute to teaching and learning blogs or create websites where students can access course content. To create a WordPress site, click here. Note: You…
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Protected: 2017 VIU Teaching and Learning Conference: Kimberly Tanner Keynote Resources
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