The University of North Carolina, a current Blackboard customer that is evaluating Sakai, just published a very interesting report of their findings so far. Among other things, it’s a good model for schools that want to do a thorough evaluation of a platform and have the resources (i.e., staff and time) to do it right. […]
Moodle, Wave, and Widgets (Oh my!)
Scott Wilson , Paul Sharples, Dai Griffiths and Kris Popat have an article up on their work embedding Wave-enabled widgets into Moodle using Wookie. (Try saying that ten times fast.) What they envision is very similar in a lot of ways to what my former SUNY colleagues and I were thinking about when we proposed […]
List of LMS Evaluation Projects
Mark Smithers has a post up listing all the public LMS evaluation projects by universities he knows of. This is a great service to the community; if you know of any others, please let Mark know.
Introduction to the Special Issue on Distributed Learning Environments
This post is a bit of a tease. Our special issue of the On the Horizon (OTH) has been published. OTH is neither open access nor Creative Commons licensed, but they do have a very liberal policy about authors retaining copyright. I intend to find a venue in which all the issue articles can be […]
Blackboard vs. Moodle: North Carolina Community Colleges Assessment
A while back, I wrote a post giving advice to small schools about selecting a new LMS. That post turned out to be reasonably popular. Today somebody sent me a link to a study done by the North Carolina Community College System comparing Blackboard to Moodle and, in particular, talking about the experience of some […]
Blackboard Files Yet Another Lawsuit
photo credit: michelle.irish You may recall that Blackboard purchased a patent in what appeared to be a fruitless attempt to countersue TechRadium, the company that sued them for patent infringement over their emergency warning system and that now is suing Twitter. It turns out that the purchase was not quite fruitless after all, because Blackboard used […]
Review: Sakai Courseware Management
I’ve been meaning to get to this for a while. I promised Michael Korcuska that I would review the new Sakai book that he co-wrote with Alan Berg. This is a particularly important milestone for the Sakai community because it is the first one published about the LMS. When you have only one book on […]