Sakai
IMS Learning Impact
Last week I was at IMS Learning Impact 2008 just up the road in Austin. The Sakai Foundation generously sponsored me to go, since I have been involved with Sakai’s support for IMS Common Cartridge for a couple of years. Michael Korcuska’s blog post about the event is here.
I have been guilty of moving exclusively [...]
IMS Common Cartridge Alliance
I just signed up as a dues-paying member of the IMS Common Cartridge Alliance. IMS CC is a standard that has been evolving for several years, with the ultimate aim of creating a single format for publishers to create course materials that can be loaded into any learning management system.
I wrote the underpinnings of IMS [...]
Sakai As It Could Be
I just saw this, via Chris Coppola at rSmart.
For me, this is where the view of Sakai as a platform for innovation is really exciting. Sure the CLE is an eLearning application that can be used out of the box as easily as any of the proprietary systems like Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Angel, and [...]
Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant
Jim Groom has an excellent post about Sakai from the point of view of a savvy outsider.
It’s not exactly, um, positive, but I just have to post this because I think he hits the nail right on the head in terms of where we fall short.
More than anything else, however, I was extremely [...]
Sakai Featured at eLearn Magazine
The current top story at eLearn Magazine is about the proliferation, albeit slowly, of open source software in higher education. Laurie Rowell cites various studies that suggest Sakai and Moodle adoption are growing quickly, but that even so CIOs like to take their time and make sure they know which way the wind is blowing.
I [...]
Texas State: Faculty to Faculty Testimonials
When I was at Texas State and we were launching our migration from Blackboard to Sakai, one of the things we realized very early on is that our social and political challenges were far more important than our technical ones. Unfortunately there is a widespread tendency among instructional technologists to think that their job is [...]