Tag Archive for 'patrick-masson'



What Really Happened at SUNY: Another View

For those of you who wanted to hear more of the gory details regarding the death of SLN2, my good friend Patrick Masson has lifted the veil just a little bit higher in a recent blog post. As a side note, I am thrilled to see Patrick join the blogosphere. His blog, “CIoh-no!”, presents a […]

What Really Happened at SUNY

I was doing a bit of research on the IMS Tool Interoperability effort and I ran across this post by Chuck Severence. He was enthusing about the need for the developing standard—a sentiment which I wholeheartedly support (although I don’t know enough about TI yet to know how I feel about the way they propose […]

Good Open Source for Higher Ed Article

Campus Technology has strong backgrounder on Open Source that could be useful for educating your stakeholders. It covers the basics—and a few not-so-basics—in very clear, simple terms. In the latter case, I’d like to highlight just three of a handful of fine points that the article brings forward. First, one critical strategy to consider is […]

Why Mashups Make the LMOS

Regular readers know that I’ve been flogging the notion of a Learning Management Operating System (LMOS) pretty hard. The other day, LMOS partner-in-crime Patrick Masson and I published an article about the need to make LMS’s mash-up-friendly. Well, today, ZDNet editor David Berlind effectively connects the dots between the article and the LMOS concept.Berlind makes […]

Two New Articles in e-Learn

I just had two new articles published in e-Learn Magazine. The first one, A Call to Arms, is an opinion piece arguing that we urgently need more direct faculty-technologist collaboration in LMS design if we are to make any kind of reasonable progress. The second one, which I co-authored with my colleague Patrick Masson, is […]





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