According to the Washington Post, the Justice Department is looking into the possibility that the Blackboard/WebCT merger might violate antitrust laws. Given that the combined company would own 80-90% of the LMS market, it’s no real surprise. This will be interesting to watch. (Found via Online Learning Update.)
Archives for 2005
A Good Window Into Information Architecture Trends
Rashmi Sinha has an outstanding post analyzing the information-finding affordances of Google Base. For people who are interested in learning some of the basic concepts in modern information architecture (IA), she does a great job of illustrating key ideas. (You may want to fire up another browser window and play around with Google Base while […]
vPodding Courses, Part Deux
Ask and ye shall receive. I recently wondered aloud about the viability of podcasting video for teaching purposes. Well, I guess others have been wondering as well. Harvard has just announced that they are vPodcasting a computer science course. Frankly, comp sci wouldn’t be my first choice for this sort of experiment because (a) I […]
Progress Toward an Offline e-Learning Client?
One of the most beloved aspects of the SUNY Learning Network’s current Lotus Notes-based homegrown LMS is its offline capabilities. Faculty members can download the current course data–including student discussion posts, tests, etc. They can respond to posts, grade papers and tests, add announcements, and so on, all while offline, and automatically synchronize the next […]
The Edublog Award Nominations Are Open
Nominations for the (second?) annual Edublog Awards are open. Go nominate all of your favorites.
vPodcasting?
Update: For those of you who tried the link and found it broken, it has been fixed now. Sorry about that. My colleagues at FIT are at it again. Not content to merely use podcasting as part of their art history courses, they are trying out screencasting, using Camtasia to provide audiovisual tours of art […]
LMOS Services and Service Brokers, Part II
In a (relatively) recent post, I started to outline how a service broker mechanism could greatly increase the pace of innovation in LMS design. The basic idea was that individual applications in the system could provide services that other applications could automagically pick up on, without requiring developers to wire up integration individually every time. […]