On Creativity, Imagination, and Technology for Researchers and Evaluators

Entering the Next Generation in Online Instruction

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TweetPin ItIn the last few months we have seen the launch of edX, Coursera, and TED-Ed.  All three with the institutional backing to become major players in online education for the near future.  It’s an exciting time for anyone with a love of learning. Education is evolving and classrooms are changing.  I believe we are heading into [...]

Web Survey Design: Knowing When the 20 Dollar Plan is Not Enough

Fresh Spectrum Cartoon showing survey servers being secured like a high security prison

TweetPin ItBeing a tech savvy research analyst, I’ve created my fair share of web surveys using all sorts of applications.  The free programs (with the exception of LimeSurvey) are mostly stripped down trial versions of plan based applications.  The next, and most mainstream, line of applications usually fall within the $20 a month price range, [...]

Learning from the Web’s Past: Five Lessons Gleaned from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine

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TweetPin ItPreservation of an ever changing digital world is a serious challenge.  While traditionally published books can sit on shelves for years, and physically preserved for centuries, digital works can be deleted in a flash and constantly altered.  For those that believe in the value of history, preservation of these works is a challenge worth [...]

Moving Beyond the Webinar: Four Approaches to Take Your Web Presentation to the Next Level

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TweetPin ItHow often do you find yourself participating in a webinar where the presenter drones on for an hour then finishes with no time for questions?  You start to wonder, why not just record the thing and let the audience decide when they want to watch?  Oh, that’s right, because if the recording is just [...]

My new goal, less posts higher quality

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TweetPin ItThis will be the last week of daily posts (at least for the near future). This blog will stay active. I’m just going to devote more energy into the creation of better posts. So, stay tuned, I have some big plans. TweetPin It