Elgg at Harvard

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pThe Fall Newsletter of the iste SIGilt newsletter,#0160;emstronginnovative learning/strong/em, includes an article:/p

pstrongTransitioning from an LMS to an Open Source Social Network to Support Graduate Students/strong/p

pHere Stacie Cassat Green of the Harvard Extension School explains/p

pemquot;Last year, after ten years of teaching in the Technology in Education program at Harvard Extension School, Harvard University’s school for continuing education, my co-teacher and I switched our courses from a learning management system (LMS) to a social network and ended up transforming our teaching practice to better match our learning goals for our students.quot;/em/p

pThey used Elgg to build The Yard, named after the famous Harvard Yard that serves as abr /center for the learning community of traditional students./p

pYou can read more about their use of The Yard on page 12 of the PDF:a href=http://sigilt.iste.wikispaces.net/file/view/Fall+Newsletter-+2009.pdf target=_blank innovative learnng/a/p

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