According to Robert Fitzgerald, BCcampus, which is an organization that supports distance learning for a number of schools in British Columbia, is recommending that they should support Moodle at an equal level as WebCT: We recommend that BCcampus support a provincial implementation of Moodle for all public educational institutions at the same level of support […]
Presenting at EDUCAUSE
Ken Udas and I had our half-day workshop proposal accepted for EDUCAUSE 2006. The workshop is called A Level Playing Field: How to Evaluate Open and Proprietary LMSs Using the Same Criteria, and it will be drawing heavily on the BRR framework. Here’s the description of the workshop: When selecting a Learning Management System, decisions […]
Microsoft Takes the Lead on Openness (?!)
Microsoft recently announced that they are making the issue register (i.e., bug tracker) for Internet Explorer public. Yes, there are a few hoops you need to jump through in order to see it, but basically anyone can now see the open bugs around IE. This is a big deal. As Washington Post technology security columnist […]
A Survey Worth Taking
My colleague Alexandra Pickett called my attention to this Trends and Vendor Satisfaction Survey by the Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness (A-HEC). It takes less than the advertised 30 minutes to complete. If you’re involved with higher education and instructional technology in any way, it’s probably worth your time.
IBM Follows SUNY's Lead on Notes/Domino Migration
Ya know, you can’t make this stuff up. As regular readers know, the SUNY Learning Network is currently on a home-grown LMS built on top of Lotus Notes/Domino. About eight months back, we proposed [PDF] the notion of migrating to a standards-based Java portal backed by a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Well, this week, IBM announced […]
More Offline Toys
Today I’m trying out Blogjet. In contrast to ecto, it has a somewhat simpler interface more reminiscent of a browser than an email client. Like ecto, it offers WYSIWYG: Both seem like they would work fine for faculty.
Working Offline with ecto
I’m experimenting with different blogging clients as a way of exploring different tools that might help faculty and students work offline and synch up with the LMS when it’s convenient. Today I’ve been trying out ecto.