Course management systems

Registration open for NERCOMP workshop: "Angel User Group"

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Registration is now open for NERCOMP's January 22nd workshop "Angel User Group." For a full schedule and registration information, please go to:
http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=5887

NERCOMP Workshop: "Blackboard User Group"

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Registration is now open for NERCOMP's November 9th workshop: "Blackboard User Group." For a full schedule and registration information, please go to:
http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=5875

The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project: A Case Study

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The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project, or CLAMP as it's better known, proves the power of collaboration across campuses. By creating a network of Moodle users from multiple campuses across the country, CLAMP has developed a highly effective system for adapting the open-source software Moodle for the specific needs of liberal arts colleges. 

NERCOMP's "Moodle User Group" Workshop

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Registration is now open for NERCOMP's upcoming workshop "Moodle User Group"

DATE: May 5, 2009

TIME: 9:00 - 3:00 (Coffee and Registration start at 8:00)

PRICE: NERCOMP Members: $108, Non-Members: $233 (includes continental breakfast and lunch)

LOCATION: University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Campus Center - First Floor, Amherst, MA.

New NERCOMP SIG "Blackboard WebCT User Group"

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Registration is now open for NERCOMP's upcoming workshop "Blackboard WebCT User Group."

Moodle and Social Constructionism: Looking for the Individual in the Community

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Luke Fernandez reviews a recent Moodlemoot in San Francisco. Listening to Martin Dougiamas and John Seely Brown about the promise of social constructivism and communal learning, Fernandez gets religion...almost. Read his account of the good in Moodle and the things Moodle would do well to remember in its creation of communal learning environments.

NERCOMP Event: Blackboard and WebCT User Group

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Come learn about how your peers in the Northeast area are using Blackboard and WebCT for innovation in teaching, learning and community building and to learn more about the Blackboard vision and strategic direction as well as the latest products and services.

The Future of Art History: Roundtable

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Three art historians discuss how their most urgent needs might be addressed by cyberinfrastructure. While they hold themselves responsible for fostering new forms of scholarship as they appear, the bottom line, they agree, is that CI will be useless if it can not revolutionize image access and metadata management, and cannot help us think differently about vision and objects: "what kind of image work is the work that matters most?"

Cyberinfrastructure: Leveraging Change at our Institutions. An interview with James J. O'Donnell

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Provost O'Donnell, author of Avatars of the Word, is fascinated by how "institutions full of creative, innovative, iconoclastic people" are paradoxically "bastions of conservatism." Guiding us through the texture of change since the Internet hit 15 years ago, O"Donnell posits that incremental change is perhaps the best we can do until the fundamental instruments of scholarly communication and the academic reward structure change: "until the problem we have to solve is defined persuasively enough that we get enough people interested in solving it."

Managed Cyber Services as a Cyberinfrastructure Strategy for Smaller Institutions of Higher Education

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Todd Kelley takes Francis Starr's recommendations for pooling computing resources across campuses one step further by discussing the advantages of outsourcing managed cyber services: "Bringing institutions with common needs together in a shared organizational network and aggregating many of their common technology needs through cyber services [is] a powerful idea."
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