The product group I’m in at Oracle (Academic Enterprise Solutions, or AES) has a new white paper out on the company’s vision of the future of the academic enterprise. A lot of this is aspirational, but it does give you a sense of the general direction that the company would like to take in terms […]
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EDUCAUSE Openness Constituent Group
My fellow SUNY escapees Patrick Masson and Ken Udas are up to some good stuff now. They’ve started an EDUCAUSE constituent group on Openness–open source, open standards, open educational resources, open content, open management practices, etc. Their hope is that the disparate groups that tend to care about each of these strands will identify the […]
And Now a Word From Our Non-commercial Sponsor…
This is just a reminder that you should register right away for the 2-3-98 Conference on open source in higher education at fabulous Delhi, NY on June 19th and 20th. The first day has tracks on quality, total cost of ownership, and external support, while the second day is a MoodleMoot. There are good speakers […]
Great Open Source Conference in Upstate New York
Update: The dates of the conference are actually June 19-20. Sorry about that. (Patrick will never let me live this down.) My friend Patrick Masson has put together a two-day conference at Delhi, NY on May 23-24 that looks terrific. The first day, which is about open source in higher education in general, has tracks […]
How a Campus IT Department Should Communicate
Following up on my previous post about Patrick Masson and why you should all subscribe to his blog, I want to point out that his staff now has a group blog that’s aimed at increasing transparency to the campus. Patrick kicked it off with the following post: “…be not content with the best book; seek […]
What Really Happened at SUNY: Another View
For those of you who wanted to hear more of the gory details regarding the death of SLN2, my good friend Patrick Masson has lifted the veil just a little bit higher in a recent blog post. As a side note, I am thrilled to see Patrick join the blogosphere. His blog, “CIoh-no!”, presents a […]
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 […]