In my last post, I announced that I will be taking a new job at Oracle and explained that the move will not affect my blogging. Now I’d like to take a moment to talk about why I’m so excited about this new opportunity to make a difference in the world of online learning.
SUNY
A New Job, Part I
And now for some Big News. I am delighted to announce that, effective December 1st, I will begin my new job at Oracle as a Product Manager for their Academic Enterprise Initiative (AEI). (I have previously blogged about AEI in a two–part series.) I want to tell you why I am so excited about this […]
College President Fired Because of Blog…Or IS She?!
Here’s a fascinating story that happened in my own backhard. According to Insider Higher Education, SUNY College of Technology at Alfred President Uma Gupta was forced out, partly due to an anonymous blogger:
Ken Udas is Moving to Penn State
I am both sad and delighted to report that friend and colleague Ken Udas will be leaving SUNY to become the next Executive Director of Penn State’s World Campus. Sad because I will miss having him to share triumphs, trials, tribulations, and tragedies with on a daily basis. Delighted because Ken is a stellar professional […]
IBM Follows SUNY's Lead on Notes/Domino Migration
Ya know, you can’t make this stuff up. As regular readers know, the SUNY Learning Network is currently on a home-grown LMS built on top of Lotus Notes/Domino. About eight months back, we proposed [PDF] the notion of migrating to a standards-based Java portal backed by a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Well, this week, IBM announced […]
Sisyphus Taught Videography
One of these days I’m going to have to figure out how to tweak my blog’s CSS so that I can get my SUNY-specific blogroll section up. In the meantime, I’m going to keep pointing to SUNY bloggers from time to time. Today’s entry is from Alex Reid at SUNY Cortland, in which he reflects […]
Calling All SUNY Edubloggers
I have often referred to the smARThistory home page by SUNY colleagues Steven Zucker and Beth Harris. I have now added to my blogroll a second SUNY edublog, Learning Curve, written by the dark and mysterious MIDizen X. I would like to start a SUNY-specific edublogroll, but I need your help. If you are an […]