Six months ago, following the Amsterdam conference, I was highly encouraged by some of the signs of progress I was seeing in the Sakai community. In an exchange with a commenter on that post, I wrote,
The question I’m trying to answer in this blog post is, given these sorts of concerns, how much progress are […]
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Sakai Newport 2007: The State of the Union
Published by December 10th, 2007 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Open Source, Open Content, Open Access, Usability and Human Factors and Notable Posts. 1 CommentGreetings from the Sakai Conference
Published by December 3rd, 2007 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Usability and Human Factors and LMOS. 0 CommentsThe third post in my series on D2L’s competency system is going to have to wait a bit, since I am at the Sakai conference for the week. (I’ll try to finish it up after I return home and have had a chance to recover from my trip.) I’m not one for live-blogging, but I’ll […]
Usability Absolutely Does Matter for Adoption
Published by November 12th, 2007 in Higher Education and Usability and Human Factors. 7 CommentsChris Coppola has a good post up regarding Sakai adoption. Chris, in turn, is responding to a comment from Trace Urdan in Education Signals:
Sakai adoption is not meaningfully hampered by usability issues, but by obstacles to the risk/rewards of an open source solution to begin with. Wider Sakai adoption, we think, is more likely to […]
Apparent Progress Toward a More Usable Sakai
Published by September 19th, 2007 in Open Source, Open Content, Open Access and Usability and Human Factors. 4 CommentsSakai has had some fairly serious usability problems since its inception. The development community has been aware of these problems for some time; however, the efforts toward improving the situation have been sporadic and fragile to date. Today, I’m happy to point to some tangible signs that this is changing, and that we have a […]
A New Article Out
Published by April 25th, 2007 in Usability and Human Factors and Educational Pattern Languages. 7 CommentsI’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t even had time to post notice that I have a new article published in ALT-N. I’ve been having conversations on and off with Rob Abel about ways to ensure that educational technology standards (and, of course, the educational technologies themselves) are more effectively informed by our developing […]
