In my previous posts on this topic, I outlined the mundate yet important core use cases that LIS is intended to address. Now I’d like to start looking at some of the sexier possibilities that the spec enables. In recent guest posts, Inigral’s Michael Staton wrote about the Schools on Facebook application and also let the cat out [...]
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Jeff Young has a great piece in The Chronicle called “Blackboard Customers Consider Alternatives“. As usual, Michael Korcuska has insightful things to say about it. I only have a little bit to add on one quote from Blackboard CEO Michael Chasen:
I have 300 people on my development team working full time on our products and services…I [...]
Here at e-Literate, we’ve been arguing for some time that part of the edupatent problem rests squarely on the shoulders of the many universities that pursue profits from intellectual property too aggressively, at the expense of their mission. Well, there’s a New York Times piece out this week that makes the same case.
Read it, please.
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I’m in the process of switching over servers and I know that some of you are getting spammed over and over again with my last post as a result. My best guess is that this is a result of the change in DNS servers propagating unevenly across the internet. So particularly some web-based readers (like [...]
In an earlier post, I outlined the motivating pain that brought the working group members to the table. In this post, I’m going to list out the highlights of the solution we came up with to address that pain. Again, this post is focused mainly on the important but unsexy problems of SIS/LMS integration that [...]
