A while back, I picked up on D’Arcy Norman’s complaint about how Moodle doesn’t export content to a standard. In a response to one of the comments on my post, I suggested that open source LMS communities like Moodle’s should encourage adopting institutions to consider the cost of exit as a selection criterion for their […]
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Cost of Exit
Published by May 10th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsReal-time College and University Transcripts Coming
Published by May 2nd, 2008 in Higher Education and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 4 CommentsThis is a guest post by Jim Farmer.
“Today the four firms providing electronic transcript services [to U.S. colleges and universities and school districts] have agreed to form a network so transcripts will be delivered to any user of their service regardless of where the transcript originated.” Speaking from hastily-written text, Larry Furth, Executive Director of […]
At the JA-SIG Conference Next Week
Published by April 25th, 2008 in Higher Education and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 0 CommentsI’ll be traveling to St. Paul, MN on Sunday for the JA-SIG conference. I’ll be there all week, including the post-conference Sakai planning sessions on Thursday and Friday. I’m a co-presenter for one session with Unicon’s Cris Holdorph on integrating Sakai with Peoplesoft. Other than that, the most likely place you will find me during […]
Is Blackboard’s Lawyer Calling D2L’s Customers?
Published by April 24th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsHere’s an interesting bit from D2L’s patent blog:
Clients have been calling us to let us know that Matthew Small, General Counsel of Blackboard, has been calling them. From what we understand, his purpose appears to be twofold: (1) to encourage clients to switch to Blackboard ; and (2) to create FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) with […]
SpikeSource Supporting Moodle on the Microsoft Stack
Published by April 22nd, 2008 in Higher Education and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 0 CommentsJim Farmer has an interesting guest post over at Seb’s blog about SpikeSource supporting Moodle on Windows/IIS. Both the creation of supported softwares stack for higher education and the mixture of proprietary and open source software in at least some of those stacks strike me as natural steps. I expect that we’ll see more of […]
