Category Archives: Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management

Permissions and Usability

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Michael Feldstein

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 Michael Feldstein

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 Michael Feldstein

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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Desire2Learn Competencies and Rubrics: Part I

Posted on November 18, 2007 by Michael Feldstein

Anyone 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 … Continue reading →

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Common Cartridge: e-Learning Made Easy

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Jim Farmer

This 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, … Continue reading →

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