Tag Archives: OpenBRR

BRR Report Published

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 … Continue reading

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A Conversation About BRR and LMSs

I’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 … Continue reading

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Presenting at EDUCAUSE

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 … Continue reading

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Microsoft Takes the Lead on Openness (?!)

Microsoft 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 … Continue reading

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More Corroborating Info on Cost of Sales

Mark 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 … Continue reading

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