Tag Archives: Jim-Farmer

Blackboard's Market Share Erosion

Posted on March 31, 2009 by

Barry Dahl is asking the question, “Is Blackboard losing clients?” and has created a wiki for people to enter information on whether they are migrating to Blackboard, migrating from it, or re-evaluating their installation. In general, it would be great … Continue reading →

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LETSI: HR-XML Consortium Seeks Cross-Domain Interoperability

Posted on November 19, 2008 by

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, … Continue reading →

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Distributed Learning is Here: Ask Any College Student

Posted on July 20, 2008 by

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 … Continue reading →

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SpikeSource Supporting Moodle on the Microsoft Stack

Posted on April 22, 2008 by

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 … Continue reading →

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An Eye-Witness Account of the Trial

Posted on February 27, 2008 by

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 … Continue reading →

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