FutureU: Tips & Tools, News & Reviews

Canvas-New, Open Source Web2.0 LMS from Instructure

claudew — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:47:04 +0000

If you haven’t already, you must check out the CANVAS learning and course management offering from Instructure. Finally, an LMS/CMS that is truly 21st century. This is a “starting over” from the ground up technology using Linux, Apache, Ruby, and PostgreSQL as the primary programming stack allowing maximum leveraging of HTML5, jQuery and OAuth. It [...]

Continuing Ed directors: Here’s why your job is so important.

claudew — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:40:18 +0000

According to a recent analysis of 1,400 colleges and universities by the Chronicle of Higher Education, one-third of four-year institutions experienced lower graduation rates over the six-year period ending in 2008. Late last week a thought-provoking post appeared in Daniel Luzer’s Washington Monthly column “College Guide” that may provide an interesting perspective about this problem–one [...]

Poor Quality Content in Online College Courses

claudew — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:16:40 +0000

What’s your take on the quality of content in online courses? For the first post in this blog (and emailed to the subscribers’ list), I found three unusually valuable blog postings you may want to check out all related to the quality of the content commonly found in online or blended courses. The one that [...]