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 […]
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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 […]
IMS Learning Information Services: The State of the Union
Regular e-Literate readers know that I am a big booster of the IMS Learning Information Services specification. (For an overview of the basics of the specification, see my posts here, here, and here.) There has been a lot of news recently about adoption, and I thought it would be worthwhile to pull together a unified […]
Blackboard's Response to Open Source: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
Blackboard has not been having a good time in the state of North Carolina. As I noted recently, the University of North Carolina (a Blackboard customer) reported highly favorable results of their pilot study of Sakai, with an outcome of further investigation into Sakai as a full replacement of Blackboard as their primary LMS. It […]
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 […]
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 […]
Great Little Conference in Upstate New York
My buddy Patrick Masson is running his second annual 2-3-98 conference in Delhi, NY on August 6th and 7th. The first day is all about open source in higher education with a keynote by Bob Sutor, IBM’s Vice President of Open Source and Linux. The second day is a Moodlemoot. Last year’s conference was great—good […]