Ceilings and floors of a course home page

Picture the instructional designer. Putting together a course home page on the institutional LMS. How do you want to “dress” this page? To impress? Do we reflect the department or faculty “brand”. Do we watch the intended user, noticing how they interact with the page, and then make changes. Do we make the interface intuitive …

Workshop 1: Love your LMS

The resources below are a collection of self authored resources, intended for use in a course development workshop. They are platform agnostic, and are intended for an active, discussion rich workshop, where the different role-players who have to work together to make better use of the LMS, can explore the environment and express themselves. Role …

A 20 year celebration of Eiffelcorp

We toasted Eiffelcorp’s 20th birthday celebration at a function in Jo’burg. I particularly enjoyed the “fire-side” chat with Andre and Gwen van der Merwe. Among ed-techies like myself, Eiffelcorp is best known as the company behind Blackboard. I learned a bit more about the history of Eiffelcorp and its origins. This “mom and pop” start-up …