This is a guest post by Jim Farmer.
Delayed several days by a database failure at the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Friday, May 2nd, the Final Judgment and associated orders for Blackbord v. Desrie2Learn are now publicly available.
This text is based upon publicly available records. Because much of the record is “sealed” […]
Archive for May, 2008
Blackboard v. Desire2Learn: The First Final Judgment
Published by May 14th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsI’m at the IMS Learning Impact conference. Another conference, another T-shirt. I expect to get at least 5 conference bags and T-shirts this year. I already have way too many T-shirts and way too many bags. At this point, I am starting to use them to insulate my attic. It’s absurd.
Therefore, I am hereby starting […]
Ugh. I have so much to say about the JA-SIG conference and had just dug out enough from my work backlog to think about writing a few blog posts. Now I’m going away again and will have my head crammed full of even more stuff to blog about.I’m going to try to get to at […]
Cost of Exit
Published by May 10th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsA while back, I picked up on D’Arcy Norman’s complaint about how Moodle doesn’t export content to a standard. In a response to one of the comments on my post, I suggested that open source LMS communities like Moodle’s should encourage adopting institutions to consider the cost of exit as a selection criterion for their […]
Real-time College and University Transcripts Coming
Published by May 2nd, 2008 in Higher Education and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 4 CommentsThis is a guest post by Jim Farmer.
“Today the four firms providing electronic transcript services [to U.S. colleges and universities and school districts] have agreed to form a network so transcripts will be delivered to any user of their service regardless of where the transcript originated.” Speaking from hastily-written text, Larry Furth, Executive Director of […]
