A while back, I picked up on D’Arcy Norman’s complaint about how Moodle doesn’t export content to a standard. In a response to one of the comments on my post, I suggested that open source LMS communities like Moodle’s should encourage adopting institutions to consider the cost of exit as a selection criterion for their […]
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Cost of Exit
Published by May 10th, 2008 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsAt the JA-SIG Conference Next Week
Published by April 25th, 2008 in Higher Education and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 0 CommentsI’ll be traveling to St. Paul, MN on Sunday for the JA-SIG conference. I’ll be there all week, including the post-conference Sakai planning sessions on Thursday and Friday. I’m a co-presenter for one session with Unicon’s Cris Holdorph on integrating Sakai with Peoplesoft. Other than that, the most likely place you will find me during […]
What the Sakai Announcement Means
Published by April 9th, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 1 CommentBarry 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 […]
Mashing Up the LMS the Google Way
Published by March 24th, 2008 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Open Source, Open Content, Open Access, Notable Posts and LMOS. 0 CommentsI have mentioned before Cambridge’s My Sakai project which, writ large, can be seen as an attempt to make Sakai more compatible with Web 2.0 by supporting development of widgets, gadgets, Facebook applications, and so on. Well, they’ve made some substantial progress of late, inspired in part by the Apache Shindig implementation of Google’s OpenSocial […]
The Sakai Foundation’s Response
Published by February 25th, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 1 CommentExecutive Director Michael Korcuska has posted a response on his blog. In my opinion, it hits all the right notes and is well worth reading in its entirety. I’ll just highlight one particular point Michael makes that I think is particularly important:
One of the main reasons the Sakai project was started in the first place […]
