I am pleased to announce that our report on BRR and LMSs for the Observatory on Borderless higher education has been published. Here’s the description:
Apples to Apples: Guidelines for Comparative Evaluation of Proprietary and Open Educational Technology Systems
Ken Udas and Michael Feldstein, SUNY Learning Network at the State University of New York, USA - May [...]
Jim Farmer’s financial analysis of Blackboard certainly has gotten a lot of attention–and for good reason. To start with, that ~$250K cost per sale is a truly eye-popping number. But upon further reflection, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not the most important part of the story that Jim tells. Here is the most [...]
This post is part of a series on the concept of a Learning Management Operating System.
I have argued in this series that the heart of an LMOS should be a portal. The main reason I have given so far is that a modern portal is well suited to handle the long tail of specialized learning [...]
