One of the emerging themes from the Sakai Amsterdam conference was a strong desire in the community to develop a coherent vision for Sakai’s developing educational value proposition. Now, because of Sakai’s heritage as a project grown out of an alliance of strong, independent institutions rather than led by a single, charismatic leader (like a […]
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Sakai Amsterdam 2007: The State of the Union
I have decided to hold off posting about individual presentations at the Sakai Amsterdam conference until the podcasts of those presentations are available. In the meantime, I thought it might be helpful to provide my general impressions of the state of the Sakai community. It’s always difficult to get a sense of the likely evolution […]
Sakai Resources Tool Meeting
I arrived in Amsterdam before the main conference started and had the pleasure of sitting in on a bit of the Resources tool working group. (I didn’t last too long, having flown in that morning on the redeye from Philadelphia.) At any rate, there were a couple of pieces of good discussion that managed to […]
Going to the Sakai Amsterdam Conference
I’ll be in Amsterdam next week for the Sakai conference. I’m not generally very good at the live blogging thing, since I like to focus on listening rather than writing. (I’m not a very good note taker for the same reason.) But I will make an effort to live-blog where I can and do after-the-fact […]
What Really Happened at SUNY
I was doing a bit of research on the IMS Tool Interoperability effort and I ran across this post by Chuck Severence. He was enthusing about the need for the developing standard–a sentiment which I wholeheartedly support (although I don’t know enough about TI yet to know how I feel about the way they propose […]
Blackboard Inter Partes Determination Published
You can find the documentation here. The USPTO found 13 of Desire2Learn’s 14 claims to raise substantial new questions of patentability. However, the government did not a preliminary finding, as is usual with an Inter Partes challenge, because they are considering whether this challenge should be merged with the Ex Parte challenge filed by the […]
Thomson Learning Makes a Statement on EduPatents?
Here is a press release by Thomson Learning about their decision to become a Sakai commercial affiliate. It has all the usual statements about working with the community, supporting open standards, and so on. But what caught my attention, down in the sixth paragraph of a six-paragraph press release, was the following statement by Thomson Learning’s Chief […]