For as long as I can remember, schools have been looking for a portfolio platform to document and archive student work. I can remember building web sites with Dreamweaver or building a Powerpoint template just to name a few. All of the different platforms had their issues, from proprietary applications to cumbersum updating or expensive licensing.

Next to MOOC's, "Blended Learning" is probably one of the most often heard yet confusing terms in education today. I first starting using the term some time in 2005 after reading a White Paper by IBM. At the time I used the term to describe a curriculum delivery method where a teacher a classroom delivered instructional materials and activities via an online environment like Moodle or a website.

It seems like a day doesn't go by without me tweeting another article or development related to MOOC's on my Twitter Feed (Massive Open Online Courses). So this past fall I decided to enroll one of the courses being offered by Stanford University Venture Lab. I joined the "Designing a New Learning Environment" course taught by Paul Kim, Chief Technology Officer at Stanford along with 18 thousand other students.