Saturday, May 5, 2012
It positively doesn't work to take a face-to-face class and simply slap it on the Internet -- and think you have a decent blended course. It takes an enormous amount of planning to put together a good blended course. Luckily, there are tons of resources floating around out on the web to help us. I hope that everyone who reads this blog will participate by sharing websites, experiences, ideas, and tools with all of us who are constantly striving to improve our courses.
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There is a Webinar sponsored by Blackboard. Maybe Blackboard will provide some insight on what is next in Education.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012 • 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time
There is great irony in Blackboard talking about what is next in education, since clunky, expensive, server-based bloatware will certainly not be ...
DeleteIn spite of Blackboard's problems, I am thankful for easy, accessible ways to provide terrific materials (terrific with respect to what the software can do, not my content) to my students. The presentations/quizzes/interactions that can easily be posted on Blackboard are very difficult to post anywhere else. What alternatives can you suggest? There must be a market out there for a competitor. Entrepreneurship is alive and well in the technology sector!
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