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Oracle, Sakai, and the LMOS–Part 2

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A few posts back, I described Oracle and Unicon’s Academic Enterprise Initiative and how it fits well with the vision of the Learning Management Operating System (LMOS). I also noted that it adds the concept of a “student data hub” (sometimes also called an “education data hub” in the document). I’m going to explore that […]

Oracle, Sakai, and the LMOS–Part 1

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It’s been a while since I’ve written a post about the notion of a Learning Management Operating System (LMOS). There’s some news out of the Sakai world that’s as good an excuse as any for doing returning to it. Apparently Oracle, with the help of Unicon, is going to do quite a bit of work […]

Eben Moglen Weighs in on Blackboard

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Here’s a late-breaking item from the Sakai Foundation: In the wake of recent efforts to limit the free and open sharing of innovation for online learning, the Sakai Foundation has retained the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), an organization directed by Eben Moglen and dedicated to providing advice and legal services to protect and advance […]

The Blackboard Patent Crisis at Two and a Half Weeks

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While marveling the events of the last several weeks, Jim Farmer suggested that it might be worthwhile to pause and reflect back on the sequence of events. I thought that was a good idea, so here it is. I don’t claim that it is any sense a definitive history. To the contrary, it’s just my […]

Good Open Source for Higher Ed Article

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Campus Technology has strong backgrounder on Open Source that could be useful for educating your stakeholders. It covers the basics–and a few not-so-basics–in very clear, simple terms. In the latter case, I’d like to highlight just three of a handful of fine points that the article brings forward. First, one critical strategy to consider is […]

Conversations About Learning Design

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Some discussions have popped up recently on the Sakai Pedagogy discussion group that led to some interesting questions about the potential role of learning design (small “l”, small “d”) in higher education. Since the Sakai conversations tend to be technologist-heavy and teacher-light, I cross-posted a few of the foundational questions to the LAMS community: What […]