Monthly Archives: June 2007

Making College Textbooks More Affordable

This is a guest blog post by Jim Farmer, Coordinator, Scholarly Systems Group at Georgetown University and editor at the eReSS project, University of Hull.
On Friday, June 1st, the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance released their report “Turn the Page: Making College Textbooks More Affordable.” Responding to a Congressional concern about high and rapidly [...]

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What Really Happened at SUNY

I was doing a bit of research on the IMS Tool Interoperability effort and I ran across this post by Chuck Severence. He was enthusing about the need for the developing standard–a sentiment which I wholeheartedly support (although I don’t know enough about TI yet to know how I feel about the way they propose [...]

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Coming Soon: Guest Posts by Jim Farmer

I’m pleased to announce that e-Literate’s second guest blogger will be Jim Farmer. From his bio:
Jim Farmer began his career in higher education as CIO for California State University Northridge and became the first CIO for the California State Universities. He was one of the founders of Sigma Systems Inc., a U.S. software supplier for [...]

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Thoughts on OpenID From an Identity Management Expert

While I have been following the OpenID conversation among the edublog community with interest, I have kept my mouth shut on the subject–mostly because I still don’t know enough about it to have anything intelligent to say yet.
That said, I call your attention to a post by Mark Wilcox, a colleague of mine at Oracle. [...]

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