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Blackboard's Market Share Erosion

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on March 31, 2009

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Barry Dahl is asking the question, “Is Blackboard losing clients?” and has created a wiki for people to enter information on whether they are migrating to Blackboard, migrating from it, or re-evaluating their installation. In general, it would be great to see more visibility of information of this kind. I’d love to see a wiki […]

LETSI: HR-XML Consortium Seeks Cross-Domain Interoperability

By Jim Farmer. Posted on November 19, 2008

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This is a guest post by Jim Farmer. “Learning, education, and HR standards communities have very little to show in terms of cross-domain standards interoperability and convergence despite significant investments over a period of more than a decade.” Chuck Allen, Executive Director of the HR-XML Consortium, made this assessment of standards that cross the boundaries […]

Distributed Learning is Here: Ask Any College Student

By Jim Farmer. Posted on July 20, 2008

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This is a guest post by Jim Farmer for a special issue on distributed learning environments for On the Horizon. Jim is Coordinator, Scholarly Systems Group at Georgetown University and editor at the eReSS project, University of Hull. This fall more than 17 million students will be using publisher-provided online services. More than 5 million […]

SpikeSource Supporting Moodle on the Microsoft Stack

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on April 22, 2008

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Jim Farmer has an interesting guest post over at Seb’s blog about SpikeSource supporting Moodle on Windows/IIS. Both the creation of supported softwares stack for higher education and the mixture of proprietary and open source software in at least some of those stacks strike me as natural steps. I expect that we’ll see more of […]

An Eye-Witness Account of the Trial

By Jim Farmer. Posted on February 27, 2008

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With all the coverage of the Blackboard v. Desire2Learn case, most of us (including me) have very little insight into the actual trial process. And with emotions running high about the case, it’s easy for people to jump to extreme conclusions about the process and everyone involved in it. That’s why I’ve asked Jim Farmer […]

Common Cartridge: e-Learning Made Easy

By Jim Farmer. Posted on October 8, 2007

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This is a guest blog post by Jim Farmer, Coordinator, Scholarly Systems Group at Georgetown University and editor at the eReSS project, University of Hull. On September 4, 2007, a summer morning in Adelphi, Maryland, the workgroup, breakfast in hand, slowly assembled into in a large conference room at the University of Maryland, University College […]

Making College Textbooks More Affordable: Part II

By Jim Farmer. Posted on June 5, 2007

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This is a guest post blog by Jim Farmer, Coordinator, Scholarly Systems Group at Georgetown University and editor at the eReSS project, University of Hull. On Friday, June 1st, the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance released their report “Turn the Page: Making College Textbooks More Affordable.” Responding to a Congressional concern about high […]
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