Here at e-Literate, we’ve been arguing for some time that part of the edupatent problem rests squarely on the shoulders of the many universities that pursue profits from intellectual property too aggressively, at the expense of their mission. Well, there’s a New York Times piece out this week that makes the same case.
I’m in the process of switching over servers and I know that some of you are getting spammed over and over again with my last post as a result. My best guess is that this is a result of the change in DNS servers propagating unevenly across the internet. So particularly some web-based readers (like Google’s) that are big enough to be hitting multiple servers frequently for updates are seeing the post from the old server and the new one as different and are republishing every time they hit a different server. If I’m right about this, the situation should calm down in the next day or two.
Sorry.
In an earlier post, I outlined the motivating pain that brought the working group members to the table. In this post, I’m going to list out the highlights of the solution we came up with to address that pain. Again, this post is focused mainly on the important but unsexy problems of SIS/LMS integration that IMS LIS was intended to address. I’ll get to some of the sexier implications in a future post.
A few weeks back, I got an invitation from Matt Small to get a tour of Blackboard NG. Given all the rumors and speculation around it, I was obviously interested. I particularly wanted to know how much of it exists in code today and how much is vapor. So I took Matt up on his offer, and got a tour from him and John Fontaine. And while I didn’t quite get a full answer to the vaporware question, I did learn a lot of other interesting stuff about the platform and Blackboard’s strategy.
photo credit: iluvcocacola
e-Literate is back in business and ready to go. Which is good, because I have a backlog of posts I want to get to.
Before I do, though, I want to acknowledge two great additions to my blogging arsenal. First of all, the WordPress theme I’m using is called “Thematic,” and it’s by Ian Stewart of ThemeShaper. I think it’s very easy to read and navigate, which is the top characteristic I was looking for. Ian was also terrific in providing technical support. Second, I have discovered a great plug-in called Photo Dropper that lets me search for Creative Commons-licensed Flickr photos and drop them into my post, all right from my WordPress “Write a Post” page. Expect to see more images in my posts in the future.
