A couple of recent articles from Inside Higher Education remind us why those of us embedded in the research and practice of online learning need to speak up or risk the outcomes of others making decisions without us. An article titled “Plug-and-Play Online Courses: Innovation or Dystopia?” describes the consequences when instructors are handed a […]

Congratulations to my “baby” nephew and his new wife! It was a beautiful weekend to celebrate Will and Annie Foy.

A couple of days ago, JR Dingwall linked to a very timely post by David Wiley that describes the attribution PLACEMENT obligations under a Creative Commons license. To be honest, this issue of where to attribute has always been a fuzzy point for me when you are using excerpts across a multi-page/sectioned work. I’m currently

As happens, I was doing one thing on the internet and ended up somewhere else – a very happy somewhere else. What started as a quick Twitter reply to George Veletsianos on a project of interest, landed me on his blog to read more about the project. To my excitement, I saw a familiar name.

Yesterday, I posted that I created a digital Accessibility Advocate badge. In creating the badge, I struggled with the symbol or icon to use on the badge to represent “accessibility”. Today, I did a brief bit of Googling and see that I’m not alone in my struggle. Early in my Googling, I came across an

We’ve been working on accessibility-related initiatives recently, and today I came up with an idea of how we could acknowledge participants’ contributions. We typically use Badgr as a digital badging platform to acknowledge our service participants, so I came up with this badge. As I noted in the criteria section on the badge, “In claiming

I came across “Using Technology to Support Postsecondary Student Learning: A Practice Guide for College and University Administrators, Advisors, and Faculty” from Dr. MJ Bishop’s recent tweet: I enjoyed the opportunity to serve on this panel… interesting to see first hand the need to begin framing our #highered #edtech research around the educational problems we’re

For the second time this week, I’ve heard great things about Otter Voice Notes. From the FAQ on this transcription service: Otter turns your voice conversations into smart notes that you can easily search and share. You can use it to take notes at your meetings and interviews, capture your thoughts and ideas while you’re