There’s an excellent (albeit necessarily technical) conversation about implementing OKI (which are standards that, among other things, are central to the Sakai project) over at the dotLRN discussion board within the OpenACS web site. (OpenACS is an Open Source toolkit upon which the dotLRN LMS is based.) Here’s a key snippet of conversation:
OKI
Doubts about OKI and Sakai
I almost appended this as a comment to a previous post, but I decided it was important enough to elevate to the top level. I received this email from a person who wishes to remain anonymous but who has at least some first-hand knowledge of OKI: I didn’t want to publicly disparage the OKI project […]
Groove, Sakai, and OKI
Martin Terre Blanche has an interesting post (found via edu_rss) on why he won’t be using Groove and what he thinks will (and won’t) become a viable alternative. His strongest argument boils down to lock-in and data exchange problems. He believes this to be a fundamental problem that is common to the current crop of […]