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 […]
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SpikeSource Supporting Moodle on the Microsoft Stack
Published by April 22nd, 2008 in Higher Education and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 0 CommentsGreat Open Source Conference in Upstate New York
Published by April 22nd, 2008 in Higher Education and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 2 CommentsUpdate: The dates of the conference are actually June 19-20. Sorry about that.
(Patrick will never let me live this down.)
My friend Patrick Masson has put together a two-day conference at Delhi, NY on May 23-24 that looks terrific. The first day, which is about open source in higher education in general, has tracks on quality, […]
What the Sakai Announcement Means
Published by April 9th, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 1 CommentBarry Dahl read the Sakai Foundation’s recent announcement about the Blackboard patent pretty closely and is concerned that it sounds like they think the fight is over. I completely understand why he interpreted it that way, but I read it a little differently. If you look closely at the specifics of the legal situation, the […]
Bad News for Blackboard, Good News for Moodle
Published by March 23rd, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Open Source, Open Content, Open Access and Notable Posts. 7 CommentsThe American Association of Community College’s Instructional Technology Council (ITC) has just published its 2007 Distance Education Survey Results, covering data from 154 U.S. community colleges. And there’s a lot of interesting stuff in it. Here are the headlines that I drew from it:
Distance education continues to grow at a very healthy clip, particularly in […]
Case Study on Moving from WebCT to Moodle
Published by March 20th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 1 CommentEDUCAUSE has posted a presentation by SUNY Delhi’s Clark Shah-Nelson on their transition from WebCT CE to Moodlerooms-hosted Moodle. It’s quite good. By all accounts (including the presentation), it has been a pretty smooth transition for Delhi. But the biggest deal is the cost comparison, which Clark lays out in his slides. The total cost […]
