D'Arcy Norman

expert, education, university, drupal, elearning

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I'm an educational technology developer at the Teaching & Learning Centre, which is a service department at The University of Calgary.

I get to spend some time playing with new technologies to support teaching and learning - including, but not limited to weblogs, wikis, podcasting, rss, and a few others. I also spend a fair amount of time thinking (and rethinking) about the concept of control and copyright, and how they might affect academia (What happens when a professor uses a wiki? a weblog? What would be the worst case scenario if someone that wasn't a registered student in a class and session was able to access the online resources for that class?)

I've been doing stuff with "learning objects" (whatever they are) for about a decade now (holy cow! a decade? yikes&helip;) and have been involved with the design and implementation of a couple of small custom commercial learning management systems.