Blackboard has purchased the leading open-source learning management system support organizations: Moodlerooms and NetSpot. Why am I not surprised?
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Welcome to The Corkboard, the home of my professional musings in the form of blog posts, record of my publications and presentations, and storehouse to a vast quantity of bookmarks. Take some time to peruse and feel free to contact me with any questions or comments.
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I'm Kyle Jones, a PhD student in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I use this site to share my professional development and thoughts about my progression in my program. I also tend to write a lot about WordPress, a techy interest of mine on the side.
22
Feb
Digital Learning and Badges
I’m in the midst of prepping my syllabus for a summer course entitled “Digital Tools, Trends, and Debates.” One of my modules – in fact, one I’m most excited about – is focused on digital learning and digital literacies, so I think it’s relevant in this week’s worth of material to include in our conversation [...]
17
Dec
New Journal: Journal of Learning Spaces
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro campus just launched the Journal of Learning Spaces with support of the University Libraries. First off, it’s great to see a university library system hosting their own open access journals and, secondly, the interdisciplinary focus of the publication, I think, will allow for some pretty interesting intersections of topics: [...]