Category Archives: Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management

Open Secret: Pittsburgh’s Ed Tech Revolution

Posted on September 15, 2012 by

Generally when we talk about goals for educational technology, we talk about one of two things: improving access or improving effectiveness. Rarely do we get an opportunity to talk credibly about an innovation that can move both of those needles … Continue reading →

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The Zone of Proximal Curiosity

Posted on January 2, 2012 by

Gardner Campbell has a great piece at Campus Technology that asks the following question: What if we took another tack, specifying that students should not only remember information but also demonstrate increased curiosity? I have enormous sympathy for this line of inquiry. … Continue reading →

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Permissions and Usability

Posted on December 31, 2008 by

In a recent post, I reviewed the advantages of Bodington’s unusual system of assigning access privileges and mentioned that the Sakai community is planning to support Bodington-like permissions in a future version. There was some follow-up discussion of this on … Continue reading →

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On Open Source, Open Standards, and Lock-in

Posted on March 20, 2008 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Blackboard Bought Xythos

Posted on January 25, 2008 by

The 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 … Continue reading →

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