I haven’t forgotten that I still owe you the last installment on the D2L competencies series, but that’s going to take more mental bandwidth than I have at the moment. My goal is to get to it this weekend. In the meantime, I note this article on GigaOm about the DiSo Project, which aims to […]
Sakai Newport 2007: The State of the Union
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 […]
Greetings from the Sakai Conference
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 […]
The 2007 Edublog Awards Final Voting is Open
The nominations are in and voting is now open for the 2007 Edublog Awards (a.k.a. “the Eddies”). I am honored to say that e-Literate is a finalist in the Best Individual Blog category. Now comes the best part. You get to go through the list of finalists and discover all the gems that you never […]
Desire2Learn Competencies and Rubrics, Part II
I’ve been a little surprised at the amount of attention–both positive and negative–that my first post in this series has received. I want to address some of the comments on the negative side. There seems to be some concern that systems like D2L’s might promote bureaucratic mandates that increase burdens on teachers, or that they […]
Desire2Learn Competencies and Rubrics: Part I
Anyone who has been awake in higher education in the last couple of years knows that there is a lot of attention on outcomes and assessment lately (although with distinctly different emphases in the U.S. and the E.U.). A natural consequence of this attention is that the various LMS platform developers are adding capabilities that […]
Sakai Foundation Board Platform: Involving the Teachers
One of my biggest concerns about the Sakai community from Day 1 has been the need to involve more teachers more directly in the design of the platform. I think that when people hear that they sometimes think of those painfully ineffective design-by-committee initiatives that universities always try and that never work. That’s not really […]