EDUCAUSE has posted a presentation by SUNY Delhi’s Clark Shah-Nelson on their transition from WebCT CE to Moodlerooms-hosted Moodle. It’s quite good. By all accounts (including the presentation), it has been a pretty smooth transition for Delhi. But the biggest deal is the cost comparison, which Clark lays out in his slides. The total cost […]
Archive for March, 2008
Case Study on Moving from WebCT to Moodle
Published by March 20th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 1 CommentOn Open Source, Open Standards, and Lock-in
Published by March 20th, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 13 CommentsI’ve been meaning to comment on D’Arcy Norman’s frustrations with not being able to export Moodle courses to a common standard. He makes a very important point:
Moodle happily ingests those formats, acting to absorb content into what then becomes an inescapable pit of quicksand. It’s a one-way trip. Content can check in, but it can […]
Desire2Live
Published by March 17th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 1 CommentThere’s a very interesting interview of Desire2Learn CEO John Baker and General Counsel Diane Lank in T.H.E. Journal. It’s a particularly good read if you haven’t been keeping up on the details of the trial, but there’s also good stuff in it for people who have been following closely. For me personally, the biggest bit […]
Reminder: Abstracts Are Due Soon
Published by March 16th, 2008 in Higher Education, Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science and LMOS. 0 CommentsFor any of you who were thinking about submitting an article for the On the Horizon issue I’m editing on breaking up the monolithic LMS, please remember that abstracts are due by April 1st. (Details are in the original post linked to above.) Articles need not be heavily researched with tons of footnotes (although those […]
The Latest on the Edupatent Front
Published by March 12th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 2 CommentsAs I noted in an earlier post, I’m traveling this week, so this post is going to be relatively short and light on analysis. If you’re trying to get a comprehensive picture of what’s happening, I’d start with the article in The Chronicle. (Incidentally, Katherine Mangan, who is new to the edupatent beat at The […]
