I attended the World Conference on Educational Media and Technology (EdMedia) organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). The conference was held in Victoria from June 24-27 at the Victoria Conference Centre. This is a… Read more ›
ETUG Spring Workshop 2013
This years’ spring Educational Technology User Group (ETUG) conference was held at Simon Fraser University with the theme “Tell it on the mountain: Teaching, Engaging, Learning and Leading ”. I came to the ETUG conference for the first time last… Read more ›
Collaborative Documents in your D2L Course
One of the tools which we do not have available in the current version of Desire2Learn is a wiki or collaborative document editor. Collaborative documents allow multiple users, including both instructors and students, to edit a document. These can be used for… Read more ›
Getting started with recorded lectures
With the recent launch of VIUTube on our campus we have seen an increased interest in instructors who want to incorporate video into their blended or online courses. While VIUTube solves the issue of “where to put my video so that my… Read more ›
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… Read more ›
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… Read more ›
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… Read more ›
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… Read more ›
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,… Read more ›
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… Read more ›