If you are Sakai-curious and want to know more about the platform and the community, you should come to the conference, which is going to be June 15-17 in Denver this year. I am delighted to say that our keynote speaker will be Anya Kamenetz.
Some Strengths of Sakai 2: Part III
Here’s the third of five installments from our good friends at the University of North Carolina Sakai Pilot blog: For those who need to adopt an LMS before Sakai 3 will be ready but worry about making the migration, take a look at the progress being made in melding Sakai 2 with Sakai 3: Depending […]
Moodle 2.0 Versus Blackboard 9.0/9.1
Here’s a video highlighting some of the features in Moodle 2.o, which is expected to be released some time in the next couple of months: You can see a video of Blackboard 9.1 highlights here. (Sorry, it’s not embeddable.) Note that neither of these videos are “official”; they are both made by adopters. It’s interesting […]
DIY U: Is There a Bubble in the Higher Education Market?
Update: Coincidentally, Anya Kamenetz just posted an interview in which she briefly compares the student loan situation with the real estate bubble here. When I opened my email the other day, I was greeted by the following blurb from Today’s Campus: The U.S. college-buying public numbers in the tens of millions. Many of them are first-time purchasers. […]
Some Strengths of Sakai 2: Part II
Here’s the second installment in the great video series from the University of North Carolina’s Sakai Pilot Blog about the strengths of Sakai 2:
Update to the Sakai 3 Timeline
Sakai Foundation Interim Executive Director Lois Brooks just posted a brief update to the Sakai 3 development plans. The detail that stood out to me is this: The new project brings together the existing body of work, and the existing teams, into a single, coordinated effort, and aims for a completed version that is feature-equivalent […]
Some Strengths of Sakai 2
I write a fair bit about Sakai 3 because I am excited about the possibilities for change that it represents. That said, there are a couple of points worth emphasizing. First, Sakai 3 doesn’t exist yet and won’t be adoptable as a full LMS for a while. (See Sakai 3: What It Is and When […]