In this article, we are going to share some knowledge regarding web hosting. The server and the client How will a user be able to access your website? As a general rule, they will have to open a browser (Firefox for example) and type a request, ask to access Continue Reading
Technology has created a new phase for higher education over the past few years as more and more educational institutions adopted emerging technology into their curriculums and systems. 1) Redrawing the boundaries of space and time. One of the most critical achievements of educational technology is the fact that it Continue Reading
Online learning has now become recognized as an effective method of education, just like traditional education systems. As the approval for the online learning programs increased progressively, more and more number of people have started applying for the same. Some even claim that online learning methods to have more significant Continue Reading
This morning I was unfortunate enough to attend a vendor presentation for a series of online academic staff development modules. Basically a series of SCORM packages (so HTML pages, images and Flash content with a little xml thrown in). I won’t mention the vendor’s name for fairly obvious reasons. The Continue Reading
I’ve been working on educational technology strategy and implementation for what feels like as long as I can remember but one thing I have always intended to do was to develop a visualisation of educational technologies in the form of a ‘map’. There are a number of such maps around Continue Reading
Over the last couple of months I have been asked to help a university (that will remain nameless) in its transition to a newer version of of its Learning Management System (LMS). As part of this I have had to access many LMS course spaces to check that content has Continue Reading
Many institutions seem to be completely obsessed with lecture capture technology as a method of generating flexibly accesible learning content. For me though the large scale implementation of lecture capture is probably one of the costliest and strategically misguided educational technologies that an institution can adopt. Now before I go Continue Reading
