Chris Coppola has a good post up regarding Sakai adoption. Chris, in turn, is responding to a comment from Trace Urdan in Education Signals: Sakai adoption is not meaningfully hampered by usability issues, but by obstacles to the risk/rewards of an open source solution to begin with. Wider Sakai adoption, we think, is more likely […]
Oracle Doing the Web 2.0 Thing
I generally don’t blog about my employer too much, since this is a personal blog. But Oracle is doing some interesting (and perhaps surprising) Web 2.0ish things that I thought were worth noting. First, the company now has an official wiki, based on WetPaint, which is open to customers and employees alike for building up […]
Sakai Foundation Board Platform: Vision for the Technology
I am honored to announce that I have been nominated to the Sakai Foundation Board by current Board member Ian Dolphin on behalf of the University of Hull. Over the next few weeks between now and the election, I’m going to outline my platform in series of blog posts, starting with this one about the […]
Blackboard Is Losing Customers, but What Does It Mean?
After Blackboard’s recent earnings announcement and conference call, Jim Farmer and I had a chat about what we learned. One thing that struck us both was that Blackboard’s total number of LMS license customers is declining. Jim, being handy with Excel, put this chart together: There is a clear long-term trend toward reduced number of […]
My Nominations for the 2007 Edublog Awards
Since I have urged all of you to nominate your favorite blogs for the 2007 Edublog Awards (or “Eddies”), I figured I should put my (virtual) money where my (virtual) mouth is and put some of my own nominees on the table. So here are mine: Best Individual Blog: Cole Camplese and Seb Schmoller. The […]
Nominations Are Open for the Edublog Awards
Every year I am impressed with the effort and quality of results from the Edublog Awards crew. Every year I learn about at least a few edublogs that teach me something important. With nominations now open for the 2007 awards, I urge you to participate. Start by nominating those edublogs that you learn from. Try […]
Google Announces Open(er) Social Software APIs
As many have anticipated, Google has announced its OpenSocial platform, a set of APIs that allow developers to target multiple social software platforms. As you might imagine, there’s already a lot of good coverage of this on the web, and I’m going to just provide some highlights here: From TechCrunch: