How the Internet is Revolutionizing Education
I like how this easy to digest visualization conveniently reinforces the message that the numbers of online courses are increasing. Did we really need a graphic for this?
Christen Bouffard
Christen in an instructional designer, Google Certified Apps for Education Trainer, and has worked at eCampus for 15 years. She values inquiry and ingenuity as tools for remaining an effective lifelong learner, and is most excited when engaged in discovering novel answers to unique problems.
Animated GIF Momento via Motionoto
This is a little memento from our Design Team retreat yesterday. It was good to break out of the work cycle for a day and have some head space to ponder new ideas. The animated GIF was created with a…
Virtual Worlds: Past the Hype
Every few months it seems as if there is some call to talk about virtual worlds and how they may or may not be appropriate spaces for education. This post accompanies a talk, presented 12 April in RASM 340 on…
Mr. Glasses
The dilemmas of an idealistic Modernist. Click through to watch the video:
Real World CSS3 for Designers: Shared Resources
Last week was Web Directions USA in Atlanta, GA. Real World CSS3 for Designers was the title of the first pre-conference workshop given by an Rubin on CSS3. Of all the sessions throughout the conference I enjoyed this one the…
Things on the Front Page of A University Web Site
In light of our current redesign, this seems appropriate: [via xkcd]
Wireframe Discoveries
I have the opportunity to work on various types of projects here at CDE. The diversity is one of the attractive features of my job and what keeps me interested. This same diversity can make keeping up to speed in…
A Word Map of UAF Vision 2017
I thought I’d put a word map together using the UAF Vision 2017 Task Force Report text. The results aren’t surprising, but still interesting to see. You can view the visualization live on the Many Eyes site and play around…
Remind Me, Why F2F?
I love how the First Life argument is presented in this video: A Virtual Conversation Overheard