Author Archives: Michael Feldstein

A Promising Start

By Michael Feldstein | Published: June 23, 2009
Today, Blackboard Learn President Ray Henderson announced in his blog that Blackboard will be “ramping up its commitment” to standards support, starting with a pledge to support import and export of the IMS Common Cartridge standard. If Ray actually makes this happen, and happen in a timely manner, this would be a pretty big deal. [...]
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Cracking the Code

By Michael Feldstein | Published: June 15, 2009
I sometimes get frustrated with the strong allergic reaction that even many good educators have to the request for hard data as part of an educational decision-making process. This allergy shows up in all different ways in all different places. In elementary school, for many years (and this may still be true today, for all [...]
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Sakai 3 As Mac OS X, Part Deux

By Michael Feldstein | Published: June 12, 2009
At the risk of sounding a little silly, I’m going to attempt to extend the analogy between Sakai 3 and Mac OS X that I made in my last post. The reason I think this exercise is worth trying is that the Mac OS X transition is a relatively clear and uncluttered example of a [...]
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Sakai 3 Is Like Mac OS X

By Michael Feldstein | Published: June 11, 2009
There’s an important point about the the forthcoming Sakai 3 that probably has escaped most casual observers. It is close to a ground-up rewrite. Sakai 3 is to Sakai 2 as Mac OS X was to Mac OS 9, in the following ways: The technological heart (or kernel) of the new version is completely different from [...]
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Blackboard Learn President Ray Henderson Starts a Blog

By Michael Feldstein | Published: June 10, 2009
This is good news. Former ANGELista and current Blackboard Learn President Ray Henderson has started a blog, where he says he will respond to conversations in the blogosphere and generally try to make Blackboard more transparent. He has also turned blog comments on, which he acknowledges is a small deal in the wider world but [...]
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