Archive | October, 2011
October 27, 2011

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Using WizIQ, Virtual Classroom

Headed for CanvasCon

The last 10 days have been a bit, well, busy, to put it mildly. Last week was absorbed by EDUCAUSE, Harman (our company’s CEO) then joined me up here in Massachusetts for some marathon meetings and a critical look at our progress and business plan (long story short, 2012 is shaping up to be an incredibly exciting year with new directions and enhancements to our virtual classroom that you’ll need to see to believe), and now Harman and I will be in Washington on Thursday for Instructure’s CanvasCon user conference.… Read the rest

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October 25, 2011

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Using WizIQ, Virtual Classroom

The Roadmap: Where great features go to die?

“It’s on the Road Map”

Long-time user and self-proclaimed head of the WizIQ Crash Test Dummies (as well as, perhaps, the original Edupunk), George Machlan, hates it when we tell him that a feature he has suggested is headed for “The Roadmap”.… Read the rest

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October 21, 2011

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Traditional and Virtual Classrooms – What’s the Difference?

The question of which teaching methodology is better, traditional or virtual, is always a puzzling one. Traditional classroom teaching methodologies are well-tested, and the environment most of us grew up in, but they have some major limitations. Virtual classrooms, on the other hand, are new and high tech.… Read the rest

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October 19, 2011

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The WizIQ Virtual Classroom — Coming soon on the iPad!

Even before the iPad reached the shelves, it was heralded as a revolutionary educational tool. A year-and-a-half, and two versions later, the iPad has been deployed or entered into pilot programs in many universities and colleges across the United States. At least 600 public school districts have done so as well, not to mention the countless units brought to campus by students and faculty.… Read the rest

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October 19, 2011

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Announcing Virtual Classroom Plugin for Seamless Integration with Instructure Canvas

This summer, WizIQ announced that it was beginning development of a plugin for Instructure’s Canvas LMS. Canvas represented an open, elegant, state-of-the-art approach to cloud-based learning management and had just open sourced its core technologies and was a natural choice for our next turnkey integration.… Read the rest

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October 12, 2011

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Top 5 Trends in Online Education

Evolving technologies and hectic schedules are driving people to online education, or e-learning. Yet this platform is young, so change is rapid.

Here’s a look at today’s biggest trends in online education.

1. M-learning: Lessons on the go

Education has reached people’s pockets and purses with the introduction of mobile learning.… Read the rest

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October 7, 2011

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Welcome to the new WizIQ blog

As you may have noticed, our blog is looking a bit different these days. In fact, it even has a new address. The old wiziq.typepad.com has gone the way of IE6 and Windows 98, with a fresh new WordPress blog living at wiziq.com/blog.… Read the rest

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