17 November, 2014

A broken cycle

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It seems to me that there is a natural cycle in which the arts articulate the human condition and the problems that face our species. The sc...
27 March, 2014

Educause Top 10 IT issues for 2014

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Educause has published their annual report of the top-ten IT issues . I think that the items identified this year accurately reflect the m...
31 October, 2013

LMS governance, technology reviews and context

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I found this article intriguing, particularly because we'll be starting a process to review our own LMS soon. " When the LMS in...
31 May, 2013

maintaining your data

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This article from Lifehacker outlines some great practices to share with users. "Hard drives get messy. You save files and forget ...
17 April, 2013

Enterprise risk management

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Enterprise Risk Management as a growing movement - started with United Educators - which formed when insurance stopped insuring higher ed. R...
29 January, 2013

Faculty perception of technological change & control

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When I ask students (completely unscientifically) about technology and learning - their biggest source of frustrations are the ways in which...
11 July, 2012

A universal Learning Object Repository

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Out of all of the product announcements at the corporate keynote session today at BbWorld 2012, the one with the broadest & most fascin...

Where Blackboard is going

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I'm excited about where Blackboard is going as a company. Through the leadership of Ray Henderson, and many others, they have managed t...
10 July, 2012

Innovation in higher education: leadership and the role of technology

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Thoughts inspired by Dr. Freeman Hrabowski's excellent and engaging keynote presentation about leadership and how the role of technolog...

So, you've got data... so what?

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Whether it's an engineering student who can't articulate his ideas, a researcher who can't convey the importance of her finding...
09 July, 2012

A historical perspective on BbWorld

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I started writing this post while sitting on the plane, reflecting on past Blackboard conferences. Unfortunately, there is so much history t...
08 July, 2012

OSCELOT Open Source Day 7.0

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OSCELOT in New Orleans OSCELOT's annual Open Source Day event is a free-form mini-conference. It brings together a community of cham...
15 June, 2012

Consumer technologies

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I just returned from a 4-day trip to Michigan State University. While I was away from home, I still logged in to work systems (using our cor...
12 October, 2011

Evolutionary change versus revolutionary change

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While I've been fortunate enough to participate in the CIC technology forum, I've been thinking about the overall theme; "evolu...
11 October, 2011

Supporting Researchers and Virtual Organizations

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Kelly Bridgewater (moderator), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Using HUBzero platform to support research, education, and coll...

Understanding & Enabling Collaboration in 21st Century Teams

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Dr. Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University: Substitution is a natural first stage of technology adoption. Expansion reflects the inter...
14 July, 2010

BbWorld10 Blackboard keynote

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Michael Chasen: Bb product lines now include Learn, Transact, Connect, Mobile, & Collaborate. Aspiring to be a true partner to clients. ...
04 November, 2009

Federated identity management with InCommon

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Too involved to take notes, but sat in on a good session from  InCommon . It looks like our InCommon license is going to get more expensive ...

Educause09 opening keynote: "Good to Great"

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Educause President, Diana Oblinger, mentioned that not all of the issues with cloud computing are IT. This is a really great point. As tech...
25 August, 2009

using Gmail as your primary email client

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While this is, in no way , endorsed by my employer - I've been using Gmail as my primary email client for some time now because it works...
16 July, 2009

a better option than "which was your favorite chipmunk?"

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Blackboard's new relationship with Acxiom has me thinking about whether it would be possible to bolt Acxiom's student verification...
14 July, 2009

BbWorld09 Chasen keynote

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Michael Chasen: Project NG strives to be user & community-driven. Session will have extensive notes, rebroadcast, and conversation threa...

BbWorld 09 opening keynote - Seth Godin: Agents of Change

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There is a temptation to look at the world in the way that it isinstead of in the way that it could be. Joel Spolsky - destroying MSFT in i...
25 March, 2009

Got the Compliance Blues? How to More Effectively Influence Your Policy Landscape

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Rodney J. Petersen , Government Relations Officer and Security Task Force Coordinator, EDUCAUSE Educause has a focus area on Policy Analysi...
24 March, 2009

Twitter at Midwest Regional Educause 09

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There has been a lot of talk about the use of Twitter here at the conference.  The #mwrc09 hash-tag has been very well-promoted by the confe...