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Posts in Xplana.com Product Development

August 16th, 2010 in Feature Content, Xplana.com Product Development

Xplana.com is Live and Moving Forward

Xplana.com has launched officially, and we want to thank everyone for the help and positive feedback. We also want to answer some of your questions about possible feature enhancements. Here are some of the things we are already planning Read Article

August 2nd, 2010 in Feature Content, Xplana.com Product Development

Some Common Questions about Xplana.com — Part 2

As I’ve blogged, traveled to conferences, and made other presentations related to the new Xplana.com platform (to be released August 9), several questions have repeated consistently. So, after returning home from the Campus Technology 2010 Read Article

July 27th, 2010 in Feature Content, Xplana.com Product Development

Some Common Questions about Xplana.com — Part 1

As I’ve blogged, traveled to conferences, and made other presentations related to the new Xplana.com platform (to be released August 9), several questions have repeated consistently. So, after returning home from the Campus Technology 2010 conference last week, I decided it might be helpful to create a couple of videos in which I address the most common queries I/we receive about our new product. If you have a question that’s not answered in one of these videos, just post a comment Read Article

July 20th, 2010 in Xplana.com Product Development

Xplana.com Launch Announcement — Xplana Announces a Major Innovation in Student Learning

We made a formal announcement today about the launch of our Xplana.com product in August. This post reproduces the press release that we sent out Read Article

June 23rd, 2010 in Xplana.com Product Development

Managing Privacy on Xplana.com

Privacy is one of the most important challenges inherent in designing and building a platform like Xplana.com. As a design team we faced conflicting needs and goals. On the one hand, we want to facilitate Read Article

May 20th, 2010 in Feature Content, Xplana.com Product Development

Controlled Vocabularies, Browse, and Search in the Xplana Platform

One of the more interesting opportunities associated with our forthcoming Xplana platform has been the architecting of our information backbone or framework for content. Before I launch into a discussion of what we’re doing, however, Read Article

April 30th, 2010 in Xplana.com Product Development

Addressing Content Portability Issues with Learning Albums

Some of the problems we are addressing with the Xplana platform are content portability and obsolescence. We do this primarily through our concept of the learning album. Xplana albums are sequenced collections of learning assets and can contain any combination of the different file or content types supported in Xplana. This includes, documents — Word, Excel, PowerPoint — notes, video, audio, images, Web pages, and interactivities. In this way, users can easily create lessons, units, or courses from scratch or by mashing up other public content from the Xplana content library Read Article

April 21st, 2010 in Xplana.com Product Development

Building Deep Integrations into the Xplana Learning Platform

One of our primary philosophies with regards to Xplana.com is to avoid building technology components that already exist in a proven and robust manner on the Web. A good example of this philosophy is our principal method of managing video — YouTube. The challenge with our YouTube integration, however, much the same with other technologies we bringinto our framework, is how to create a feel and workflow that feels seamless to product users Read Article

April 16th, 2010 in Feature Content, Xplana.com Product Development

Building a Learning Framework Focused on Individual Learners

It sounds so simple when you say it or write it down the first time. “We’re going to build a framework that begins with the student/individual and that doesn’t require any institution, class, or teacher to be relevant.” In making that statement, we weren’t saying that those formal containers weren’t useful in the learning process, simply that our framework needed to have a different center of gravity Read Article

April 9th, 2010 in Feature Content, Xplana.com Product Development

How to Build a Social Network — Part 2 (Video)

Once you have a basic product design foundation, you have to establish key areas of focus that will determine what features and functionality to prioritize, as well as how you architect and deliver those things to your users. With regards to Xplana.com, we have four general areas of such focus. These are what really form the boundaries of our vision and direct us to our end goal of a rich social learning platform Read Article