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opmlIMS 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 ...
Congratulations to the JASIG CAS Project on Release of Version 3.3
I write to congratulate Scott Battaglia of Rutgers University and the other CAS developers on the successful release of JASIG CAS Server 3.3. read more
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...
Attractive Preferences Presentation uPortal 3
uPortal 3 ships with an attractive UI for adding content to a page, adjusting the layout of a page, and moving portlets around within a defined layout for a page. This blog post walks through these features and presents them with screen shots. re...
uPortal Permissions and Error Handling
In which I describe uPortal's support for permissioning, using access control on technical information about error conditions as an example. read more
Electronic learning leadership opportunity at Oxford
I could not resist Adam Marshall's invitation to post in my blog news of an opening at Oxford University for an electronic learning leader. read more
JASIG Membership and Unicon Cooperative Support Membership
Someone wrote to me asking the difference between JASIG institutional membership and Unicon Cooperative Support membership. I'm hoping it will help awareness and understanding of this to answer here. read more
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...
