Ben Brophy, a UI designer at MIT, muses about whether Sakai is a platform or a product. His initial answer is that it should be both. But he worries about the implications of having it as platform:
The conference ended with a Q&A session with the Sakai board members. I asked how decisions about what’s included [...]
This is interesting. According to Tim O’Reilly, Macromedia’s next Flash authoring tool will be built on the Eclipse Open Source IDE project. Eclipse’s offshoot, the Eclipse Rich Client Platform, has been used for a number of interesting online learning applications via the RELOAD project. (I’d love to see them add a QTI editor to the [...]
Update: Here is a press release with a little more information.
Well, it’s official. Three of SUNY’s 4 university centers (University at Buffalo, Stony Brook University, and Binghamton University) will jointly offer a fully online degree in electrical engineering. I’m told that this is the first degree of its kind. The program is being funded by [...]
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James Farmer has a bee in his bonnet about the fact that WebCT is integrating Open Source components such as PHPWiki into the LMS. he writes,
…[T]he essence is that WebCT, as far as I can tell, are now ‘integrating’ and are planning to integrate a huge swathe of open source tools essentially into WebCT so [...]
Chris Correa has a thought-provoking post on something called “signature pedagogies.” Here’s an excerpt:
Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation, shared some of the preliminary results from the foundation’s studies of professional education (including the education of lawyers, doctors, clergy, teachers, and others). He introduced the notion of signature pedagogies, or (as I understood it) the [...]
