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 […]
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BRR Report Published
Published by May 4th, 2006 in Higher Education and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 0 CommentsA Conversation About BRR and LMSs
Published by May 2nd, 2006 in Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 1 CommentI’ve been meaning to write this up for a couple of weeks now. Ken Udas and I recently had a great conversation with folks from OpenBRR and Edutools/WCET about creating a community and framework to evaluate both Open Source and proprietary LMSs, drawing on the knowledge and resources of both OpenBRR and Edutools. In attendance […]
Ken Udas and I had our half-day workshop proposal accepted for EDUCAUSE 2006. The workshop is called A Level Playing Field: How to Evaluate Open and Proprietary LMSs Using the Same Criteria, and it will be drawing heavily on the BRR framework. Here’s the description of the workshop:
When selecting a Learning Management System, decisions are […]
Microsoft Takes the Lead on Openness (?!)
Published by April 16th, 2006 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 0 CommentsMicrosoft recently announced that they are making the issue register (i.e., bug tracker) for Internet Explorer public. Yes, there are a few hoops you need to jump through in order to see it, but basically anyone can now see the open bugs around IE. This is a big deal. As Washington Post technology security columnist […]
More Corroborating Info on Cost of Sales
Published by January 24th, 2006 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 0 CommentsMark Carden makes an interesting observation that supports Jim Farmer’s calculations regarding Blackboard’s cost of sales:
I know something about the cost of sales issue, having sold library automation software for most of the past ten years (at Innovative and Dynix). I have long said that it costs the major ILS/LMS vendors an average of about […]
