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IMS Learning Information Services: The Motivating Pain

Today Oracle announced the release of the Student Administration Integration Pack, or SAIP. It’s the first product that I have worked on as an Oracle employee, and I’m proud of it for a number of reasons. It’s not a particularly ...


Bring On Da Noise: The Backchannel Panel

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while. Barry Dahl has a great post analyzing the back-channel comments from our recent panel discussion with Stephen Downes and Robbie Melton. He concludes that only 31% of the posts were productiv...


Blackboard, Inc. Analysis, Part 1: Software Licenses

This is a guest post by Jim Farmer. As the dominant supplier of learning system software, Blackboard Inc. is “mission critical” to colleges and universities in the U.S. It has been more than two years since Blackboard completed the acquisition of ...


Social Constructivists and eLearning

This is a guest post by Jim Farmer On July 15th Luke Fernandez, Weber State University and frequent Sakai contributor, posted “Moodle and Social Constructionism: Looking for the Individual in the Community” on Academic Commons. Broadly interpretin...


Distributed Learning is Here: Ask Any College Student

This is a guest post by Jim Farmer for a special issue on distributed learning environments for On the Horizon. Jim is Coordinator, Scholarly Systems Group at Georgetown University and editor at the eReSS project, University of Hull. This fall mo...


Looking for Suggestions on Mapping Software

OK, Dear Reader, I need your help once again. You haven’t let me down yet. My wife is working on a summer program for high school ESL kids who come from all over the world. She and her colleagues are fairly non-technical. They want to create...


Going to the D2L Conference

Correction: My presentation with Bill Lee is on Wednesday, not Thursday. I’ll be going to the Desire2Learn conference Monday night through Wednesday morning this coming week. I’ll be on a lunch panel on Tuesday (I finally will meet St...


Moodle Developer Martin Dougiamas Honored at OSCON 2008

This is a guest post by Jim Farmer. Martin Dougiamas was named Best Education Enabler at last week’s OSCON (Open Source Conference) 2008 in Portland. The Google-O’Reilly Open Source award was made for his contribution to Moodle, an open source lea...


Connecting Blackboard to Sakai and Moodle

I didn’t intend to post about this, but people keep asking me what I think, so I guess I need to get something up. For starters, you should read Michael Korcuska’s post on the subject. I agree with everything he says. Beyond that, here...


SIS to Facebook Direct. Introducing Schools on Facebook.

Hi!  I’m Michael Staton and I’m a guest blogger.  What I say in no way represents Michael Feldstein or his ancestors.  Also, our screenshot here is of our app with Abilene Christian University, a school known for being a thought leader...


Purse String Paradigm Shift

Michael just introduced me two posts below.  I’m Michael Staton, and I’m a guest blogger. As Michael already mentioned, my fledgling start up, Inigral, has been included in the alpha partnership with Oracle’s new release of their...


The Second Anniversary: Blackboard v. Desire2Learn

This is a guest post by Jim Farmer Two years ago while speaking at the Desire2Learn Users Conference, CEO John Baker learned that Blackboard Inc. accused Desire2Learn of infringing a Blackboard patent. Following a jury’s decision and failed attemp...


Please Welcome Guest Blogger Michael Staton

Michael is the CEO of a company called Inigral, the company that produces the Facebook Courses application. You may have seen his earlier guest post for the On the Horizon. I have been talking a fair bit with Michael lately because my team at Orac...


Desire2Learn Conference Summary

I had fun at the D2L conference last week. As usual, I don’t have as much time as I would like to blog about the details, so this highlight post will have to do: Conference attendance was good. There were about 550 attendees this year, up f...


Victory for D2L, Opportunity for Blackboard

Well, my flight was delayed, so I missed the opportunity to witness D2L’s court victory celebration at Graceland. And I’m sure that they celebrated tonight The court denied Blackboard’s motion for contempt, meaning that Desire2Le...


The ‘On the Horizon’ Series Is Complete

With Jim Farmer’s post, we have completed the series. I want to thank both the authors and the readers who have commented on this post. I’m hopeful that this process has shaped the final product, which will be a journal issue published...