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Presentations on Canvas LMS: May 22nd and 23rd

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on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 19:46

After a thorough review of Learning Management Systems (LMSs), the State Board of Community and Technical Colleges recently announced that it had selected Canvas as its apparent successful vendor. The University of Washington already has identified Canvas as its next institutional LMS, while The Evergreen State College and Eastern Washington University are considering Canvas pending SBCTC negotiations and funding.

Western's Academic Technology and User Services will be hosting two presentations on Canvas, coming up May 22nd and 23rd.

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eBooks Roundup

Submitted by jrdixey
on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 18:34

The Thursday, April 26th meeting of the Learning Technology group featured eBooks as the topic. A guest speaker from McGraw-Hill, Nicolle Wilson, presented McGraw-Hill's Connect and Create platform and Blackboard connection, and we also talked about the iBooks platform on Apple's iPad and the iBooks Author textbook authoring tool from Apple. The following links include information that was discussed at the meeting, and more.

Our next meeting will be in September, but the blog is always active, so stay tuned!

E-Books:

7 Things You Should Know About… the Evolution of the Textbook, Educause

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Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series

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on Fri, 02/24/2012 - 18:50

The Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series, 2012

It’s not enough just to port your offline classes into a course shell.  This online modality affords an opportunity for greater connectedness, a stronger sense of classroom community, interaction between students for peer-to-peer learning and even greater educator efficiency; so you can spend more time teaching and less time dealing with administrative load.

This program will bring best practices and evolved online pedagogy training to you in a concise and effective series consisting of monthly training webinars that have been designed for

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Attend EduCause West (Virtually) at Western - This Week!

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on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 17:10

 

Online EDUCAUSE West Conference Available from ATUS

ATUS invites the campus to participate in the EDUCAUSE online regional conference beginning Wednesday at 1:00 pm and concluding Friday at Noon. Interested Western Washington University faculty and staff may attend virtually at Miller Hall 56.

The EDUCAUSE conference looks at the role of information technology within higher education. Sessions will cover topics to include IT infrastructure, libraries and digital content, security and privacy protection, teaching and learning with technology as well as web and media development.

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LearnCentral Closed

Submitted by jrdixey
on Wed, 01/04/2012 - 19:48

Education technology portal LearnCentral, formerly operated by Elluminate, has closed its virtual doors. For those who used the vRoom service that LearnCentral used to offer, new virtual spaces are available on a free trial basis. Please see the FAQ at http://www.wecollaborate.com/page/vroom-faq for more information.

Our Blackboard Elluminate virtual classroom technology is still functioning and available; Elluminate support from Blackboard will end at the end of this year, but we expect some other virtual classroom technology to take its place.

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