This is a guest post by Jim Farmer.
“Learning, education, and HR standards communities have very little to show in terms of cross-domain standards interoperability and convergence despite significant investments over a period of more than a decade.” Chuck Allen, Executive Director of the HR-XML Consortium, made this assessment of standards that cross the boundaries of [...]
One criticism I consistently hear when talking about retention early warning systems is that they may provide value for the university but mostly don’t for the student. The university benefits by retaining the student because it gets more tuition. But, the argument goes, the student may have all kinds of valid reasons for dropping out [...]
Update: The Sannier vs. Wheeler smackdown is available on video here. Microsoft Silverlight is required.
As I sit on the flight home from the EDUCAUSE conference thinking back on the themes of the week, it is clear to me that various flavors of openness have finally arrived in a big way in higher education, with [...]
Also posted in Openness | Tagged Adrian Sannier, Blackboard-Inc., Brad Wheeler, Chuck-Severence, Inigral, Jenzabar, John Fontaine, learning-management-systems, Michael Morrison, Michael-Chasen, Oracle, Patrick-Masson, Scott Jaschik, Serge Goldstein, SOA, Sungard |
Just want to give a quick shoutout to my friends Steven Zucker and Beth Harris for their beautiful work on the newly redesigned smARThistory web site. When I think about Open Educational Resources, this is the sort of thing that I want to see. The site is clean and well-organized with an extremely high signal-to-noise [...]
