Archive for April, 2006

ePort(able)Folios

Last week I had the pleasure of moderating a conference on ePortfolios at SUNY Brockport. Unfortunately, the audio on WebEX apparently died early on, so there is no online archive available. It’s too bad. It was a great conference.
Anyway, I’ve said on a number of occasions that ePortfolios are a lot like artificial intelligence in […]

British Columbia Distance Learning Program Recommending Moodle

According to Robert Fitzgerald, BCcampus, which is an organization that supports distance learning for a number of schools in British Columbia, is recommending that they should support Moodle at an equal level as WebCT:
We recommend that BCcampus support a provincial implementation of Moodle for all public educational institutions at the same level of support as […]

Presenting at EDUCAUSE

Ken Udas and I had our half-day workshop proposal accepted for EDUCAUSE 2006. The workshop is called A Level Playing Field: How to Evaluate Open and Proprietary LMSs Using the Same Criteria, and it will be drawing heavily on the BRR framework. Here’s the description of the workshop:
When selecting a Learning Management System, decisions are […]

Microsoft Takes the Lead on Openness (?!)

Microsoft recently announced that they are making the issue register (i.e., bug tracker) for Internet Explorer public. Yes, there are a few hoops you need to jump through in order to see it, but basically anyone can now see the open bugs around IE. This is a big deal. As Washington Post technology security columnist […]

A Survey Worth Taking

My colleague Alexandra Pickett called my attention to this Trends and Vendor Satisfaction Survey by the Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness (A-HEC). It takes less than the advertised 30 minutes to complete. If you’re involved with higher education and instructional technology in any way, it’s probably worth your time.

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