Tag Archives: Moodle

Social Constructivists and eLearning

This is a guest post by Jim Farmer
On July 15th Luke Fernandez, Weber State University and frequent Sakai contributor, posted “Moodle and Social Constructionism: Looking for the Individual in the Community” on Academic Commons. Broadly interpreting his post about attending the San Francisco MoodleMoot US 2008, he identified two issues: (1) How does the [...]

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Moodle Developer Martin Dougiamas Honored at OSCON 2008

This is a guest post by Jim Farmer.
Martin Dougiamas was named Best Education Enabler at last week’s OSCON (Open Source Conference) 2008 in Portland. The Google-O’Reilly Open Source award was made for his contribution to Moodle, an open source learning system. This is the first year anyone from education was nominated for the annual awards.
Other [...]

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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 [...]

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Great Open Source Conference in Upstate New York

Update: 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, [...]

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What the Sakai Announcement Means

Barry 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 [...]

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