Comments on: Oracle's New Academic Enterprise White Paper

By: Michael Feldstein

Michael Feldstein — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:58:57 +0000

Joanne we don’t have that graphic at the moment, but that’s a good suggestion. I’ll look into it.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:08:00 +0000

Michael, I like the way you have consolidated the issues and painted a future state of the enterprise LMOS. Do you have a figure showing the transition paths through various Oracle/PS product offerings that you mention in the text? The people responsible for the LMS and those who manage our Oracle investments are different groups at my institution, so an easy reference to the product map would facilitate conversation. Thanks for pulling together the gestalt into such a clear vision.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:26:20 +0000

Hey, okay by me, I made the jump from corporate training to higher education six years ago and have found it to be a much more rewarding environment. But it’s been in those six years that the technologies and pedagogical tools of corporate training geared at tech-savvy, multitasking, time-crunched learners have started to become more relevant and common in academia.

By: Michael Feldstein

Michael Feldstein — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:28:32 +0000

I’m glad you like the vision, Peter. Right now, our focus is on higher education and there hasn’t been much cross-pollenation with the corporate training side of the house. There’s nothing to say that won’t happen in the future, though.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:27:48 +0000

As a former Oracle employee involved some years ago with the earliest iterations of Oracle’s online education (internal and external) and subsequent development of a primitive (at the time) LMS, I’m gladdened to read this well-thought out approach to academic infrastructure and the concept of an “operating system” for learning with a more unified approach for the learner. It’ll be great to see how it is realized by early adopters – will Oracle be sampling the ‘dog food’ and using such a system for its global online education, or is this specifically aimed at the university enterprise?