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Moderation in All Things – Including Innovation and Creativity

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Great quote from a short piece called Innovative User Interfaces: Whether building the killer app or defining a new market, the message should be clear: innovate only where necessary, avoid being overly creative, and be aware of the technical limitations facing your product. Corporations that successfully balance innovation with standard, usable feature-sets will set themselves … Read more

Education as a Service or as a Right

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Interesting thought from a paper mentioned in the UNESCO IIEP forum on open educational resources: An important debate is currently taking place within universities but also among researchers, diplomats and governmental sectors all over the world. Can education be considered as a commercial service and, as a result, regulated by the World Trade Organization (WTO)? … Read more

LMS Madness, and Why I’m Mad

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So by now you’ve heard – Blackboard is buying WebCT, and in 18 months or so there will be one uberproduct. We all saw this coming, but still – wow. Why am I mad? Because the state of Utah just completed a bid process to license and buy support for an LMS to be used … Read more