Well, I guess it’s mLearning Week here at e-Literate. Just a day after I noted that the main difference we are aware of between the Moodle mobile clients and the forthcoming Blackboard Mobile Learn client is that Blackboard plans to have native apps for Android and Blackberry, the Moodle folks announce progress on a native […]
Moodle Mobile vs. Blackboard Mobile Learn
Blackboard just announced the planned availability (in June) of Blackboard Mobile Learn: Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) today announced plans for Blackboard Mobile Learn(TM), an application that will bring two-way teaching and learning to mobile devices, creating an interactive mobile learning experience for students and teachers on the go.Blackboard’s existing Blackboard Mobile Central(TM) application already delivers […]
It's Official: The Sakai Foundation is Hiring a New Executive Director
The job description is here. If you are thinking about applying and have questions, feel free to ping me.
Understanding the Sakai Product Council
If you have never been involved with an open source project, one of the great sources of mystification (and anxiety) for you might be how a group of people spread out all over the world with a wide range of motivations can come together to work on a complex project and produce something coherent and […]
Moodle for iPhone Demo
Here’s an interesting (and unusually high production value) video of an iPhone mobile interface for Moodle: Moodle also has a Java-based cross-platform mobile client which is not as pretty but seems to have decent functionality. (My impression is that this is fairly similar to the state of affairs with Blackboard’s mobile clients.) You can see […]
Sakai 3: The Benefits of 'Everything is Content'
One of the more radical departures that Sakai 3 makes from traditional LMS design is that everything in the system is treated as content. A traditional LMS is an aggregation of tools—discussion boards, grade books, test engines, wikis, assignment drop boxes, etc.—each of which has its own data model in a relational database. It’s really […]
Michael Korcuska Moving On, Lois Brooks Stepping Up
Update: Lois Brooks now has a blog post up about the transition as well. Well, I’m sad but not surprised to report that Michael Korcuska has been wooed by an organization with deep pockets to take on a very important role. The founder of LinkedIn, who is apparently a personal friend of Michael’s, invited him […]