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Canvas Notes: 2012 Begins!

Welcome back everyone. Spring 2012 is here despite the falling snow! In 2011, Instructure’s Canvas LMS was created and UMW became one of their early adopters. In fact, we are FIRST in Virginia! To view a recap of their launch year, watch Matt “The Canvas Community Guy” as he highlights features of the product: What’s [...]

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UMW Cited as Model for Future of Networked Learning

UMW, and UMW Blogs in particular, is being heralded in Richard Demillo’s new book Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities as a space of great educational ferment, to quote from George Leef’s review of the book here. In fact, Leef’s review not only examines more popular open education mainstays like MIT’s [...]

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UMW Blogs: A 2011 Snapshot

Here are the number for UMW Blogs for all of 2011. 1,530,580 Visits 1,049,706 Unique Visitors 3,417,021 Pageviews 2.23 Pages/Visit 00:01:48 Avg. Time on Site The stats never cease to mesmerize me, even though they are plateauing. But if you stop for a second and think about it, we have more than 1 million people looking at, using, or interacting [...]