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LETSI: HR-XML Consortium Seeks Cross-Domain Interoperability
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 [...]
Distributed Learning is Here: Ask Any College Student
This is a guest post by Jim Farmer for a special issue on distributed learning environments for On the Horizon. Jim is Coordinator, Scholarly Systems Group at Georgetown University and editor at the eReSS project, University of Hull.
This fall more than 17 million students will be using publisher-provided online services. More than 5 million students [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers, Higher Education, LMOS, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) Also tagged On-the-Horizon 4 Comments
SpikeSource Supporting Moodle on the Microsoft Stack
Jim Farmer has an interesting guest post over at Seb’s blog about SpikeSource supporting Moodle on Windows/IIS. Both the creation of supported softwares stack for higher education and the mixture of proprietary and open source software in at least some of those stacks strike me as natural steps. I expect that we’ll see more of [...]
An Eye-Witness Account of the Trial
With all the coverage of the Blackboard v. Desire2Learn case, most of us (including me) have very little insight into the actual trial process. And with emotions running high about the case, it’s easy for people to jump to extreme conclusions about the process and everyone involved in it. That’s why I’ve asked Jim Farmer [...]
Posted in Digital Democracy, Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) Also tagged Blackboard-Inc., Desire2Learn, edupatents 10 Comments
Blackboard’s Market Share Erosion