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:
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SAKAI – Open Source LMS or Developer Framework?
Stuart Sim over at Java.net has a blog post clarifying the current state of SAKAI’s development. The SAKAI team could do itself a huge favor by issuing this kind of an update summary itself on a regular basis rather than relying on the small handful of informed outsiders who are capable of making this kind […]
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 […]
Sakai's Okay?
Sam Ottenhoff of the Longsight Group sent me this valuable clarification via email: Your criticism of the way most CLEs/LMSs do threaded discussion is absolutely valid and dead-on. But the title you use, What’s Wrong with the Sakai User Interface, is misleading. As I understand it, the work that has been happening with Sakai has […]
What's Wrong with the Sakai User Interface
Like many, I have been eagerly awaiting the public unveiling of Sakai, the Open Source course management system being created by an alliance of MIT, IU, University of Michigan, Stanford, and uPortal. At last the long wait is over; the first public release is available, and with it a demo portal. So I went in […]
Embanet Joins as Sakai Project Affiliate to Offer Hosting
This is big news. As far as I know, this is the first major hosting company to offer managed hosting for an Open Source LMS platform. (And Embanet is a fairly large firm, too.) I was just today talking with some folks at a small university who probably wouldn’t be able to consider using an […]