I’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 […]
Archive for the 'Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management' Category
On 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 CommentsBlackboard Bought Xythos
Published by January 25th, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management. 2 CommentsThe Chronicle just confirmed it. For those who don’t know, Blackboard Content System is based on the Xythos Content Server product. So now Bb owns a content management engine and can integrate it pervasively with the rest of its product line. (To date, the integration between Bb Content System and their LMS is relatively weak.) […]
Desire2Learn Competencies and Rubrics: Part I
Published by November 18th, 2007 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management and Notable Posts. 4 CommentsAnyone who has been awake in higher education in the last couple of years knows that there is a lot of attention on outcomes and assessment lately (although with distinctly different emphases in the U.S. and the E.U.). A natural consequence of this attention is that the various LMS platform developers are adding capabilities that […]
Common Cartridge: e-Learning Made Easy
Published by October 8th, 2007 in Higher Education, Instructional Design, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management. 4 CommentsThis 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 September 4, 2007, a summer morning in Adelphi, Maryland, the workgroup, breakfast in hand, slowly assembled into in a large conference room at the University of Maryland, University College (UMUC). […]
EduPatent Alerts
Published by February 17th, 2007 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Digital Democracy, Notable Posts and Folksonomy. 3 CommentsVia Stephen Downes, I see that Mark Oehlert posted a list of Blackboard’s pending patents, 8 of which were filed for in the last year (6 of which were filed in October and November of last year), and many of which are not covered in Blackboard’s patent pledge. This has prompted me to invest a […]
