One of my professional heros, Jim Groom, aka edupunk, has written about the upcoming WordPress University event on April 8.
More campuses are exploring and hacking on open source applications like WordPress to start re-imagining the social implications of web-based communities for publishing, research, teaching, and learning. Read More
I’m giving a presentation on crossing online boundaries in higher education at WordPress University in Norwood, Massachusetts (near Boston) on April 8. Organizer Randy Rode has put together a phenomenal agenda for this second annual conference, covering five distinctive uses of WordPress on campuses around the country.
I’m excited about presenting several of the frameworks we’re using to renovate the bates.edu domain. Here’s the session description:
A decade ago, the higher education Web experience was segmented into walled gardens — the public Web site, the course management system, online transactions, alumni communities, events calendars. The legacy of that structure was that our lifelong relationships with the college were interrupted as we students, faculty, staff, parents, and alumni moved from system to system. Read More
The Home/Views site — the first phase of a whole-domain renovation for Bates College — was designed to improve first impressions, draw visitors toward their interests, and help them make a deeper connection with the College.
We welcomed 260,000 absolute unique visitors to the combined www.bates.edu and home.bates.edu sites in January, 2010; annualized, that is 3,110,000. Approximately 35% of that combined traffic is to home.bates.edu. Read More
Now that we have official content streaming through our news blog (Bates Views), the next step has been to help people subscribe directly to RSS and e-mail notifications based on their interests.
This month, we began to transition our monthly BatesNews e-mail blast into our new Bates Updates e-mail campaign service.
Via RSS
Via e-mail
Video: Make the future
A video from FutureLab looking at “ideas drawn from research commissioned under the Beyond Current Horizons programme, which considers the future of education in the light of social and technological change.” Read More »