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Connecting Blackboard to Sakai and Moodle

I didn’t intend to post about this, but people keep asking me what I think, so I guess I need to get something up. For starters, you should read Michael Korcuska’s post on the subject. I agree with everything he says. Beyond that, here’s what I think:

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Sakai Paris 2008: The State of the Union

Let me cut to the chase. If you looked at Sakai in the past and ruled it out, it’s time to look again.
This is a new Sakai.

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Sakai and OpenSocial: A Different Approach to Distributed Learning Applications

This is a guest post by Dr. Ian Boston for the On the Horizon series on distributed learning environments. Dr Boston holds a first degree in Engineering and a PhD in parallel computing. During the early 1990’s he parallelized grand challenge applications in science and engineering. After a frenetic period of multiple startups in Silicon [...]

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Secret Society Maybe Not So Secret

Since I complained recently about the IMS needing to open up more, it’s only fair that I should give credit when they actually do it. Chuck Severence, who now works part-time for the IMS, has a public test site up for people who want to test against a subset of the forthcoming Learning Tool Interoperability [...]

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Blackboard Inc. Shows Deep Compassion for Desire2Learn Customers

As expected, Blackboard has taken Desire2Learn back to court, claiming that 8.3 still infringes and charging them with contempt. Interestingly, the news of this showed up simultaneously in Inside Higher Education, THE Journal, and The Chronicle. It looks like Blackboard may have something to say that they want to make sure we all hear.
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