Tag Archives: SUNY

Open SUNY: A Game Changer in the Making

Posted on April 25, 2013 by

Update 4/25 and bumped due to changes: Thanks to Greg Ketcham and Robert Knipe, I have replaced the 2009 interim proposal document with the updated advisory team report. This changes the intro blurb, description of 9 inter-dependent components, and list … Continue reading →

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SUNY and the Expansion of Prior Learning Assessments

Posted on March 26, 2013 by

Last week Steve Kolowich wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the State University of New York (SUNY) system approval of a plan that would target reduced time-to-degree. The State University of New York’s Board of Trustees on Tuesday endorsed an … Continue reading →

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Why All LMS's Are 'Pretty Good/Bad'

Posted on March 5, 2009 by

I got a lot of positive feedback on my “Advice for Small Schools on the LMS Selection Process” post, so I’m going to continue the occasional series. You can find all the posts in the series at any time by … Continue reading →

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Oracle's New Academic Enterprise White Paper

Posted on January 7, 2009 by

The product group I’m in at Oracle (Academic Enterprise Solutions, or AES) has a new white paper out on the company’s vision of the future of the academic enterprise. A lot of this is aspirational, but it does give you … Continue reading →

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EDUCAUSE Openness Constituent Group

Posted on October 30, 2008 by

My fellow SUNY escapees Patrick Masson and Ken Udas are up to some good stuff now. They’ve started an EDUCAUSE constituent group on Openness–open source, open standards, open educational resources, open content, open management practices, etc. Their hope is that … Continue reading →

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