Six months ago, following the Amsterdam conference, I was highly encouraged by some of the signs of progress I was seeing in the Sakai community. In an exchange with a commenter on that post, I wrote,
The question I’m trying to answer in this blog post is, given these sorts of concerns, how much progress are [...]
The third post in my series on D2L’s competency system is going to have to wait a bit, since I am at the Sakai conference for the week. (I’ll try to finish it up after I return home and have had a chance to recover from my trip.) I’m not one for live-blogging, but I’ll [...]
Chris Coppola has a good post up regarding Sakai adoption. Chris, in turn, is responding to a comment from Trace Urdan in Education Signals:
Sakai adoption is not meaningfully hampered by usability issues, but by obstacles to the risk/rewards of an open source solution to begin with. Wider Sakai adoption, we think, is more likely to [...]
Since my last post, I’ve gotten some good feedback from folks who are knowledgeable about the issues. I hope to write about this topic in more detail after I’ve gotten back from EDUCAUSE and had some time to do a little more research, but in the meantime, I want to at least mention two of [...]
A couple of weeks back, I was somewhat disturbed to read a post by Unicon’s John Lewis on the forthcoming Version 2.0 of the Educational Commons License (ECL), which is used by both the Sakai and the Kuali projects. While pointing out some significant improvements over the previous version, John notes correctly that the proliferation [...]
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