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September 2003
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WebCT Vista demonstrates Open Knowledge Initiative support
http://www.webct.com/service/ViewContent?contentID=18218512 “In the demonstration, the WebCT Vista academic enterprise system automatically synchronized calendars with Microsoft Outlook using the OKI authentication and scheduling OSIDs, or APIs, to exchange data. This would enable both calendars to be simultaneously updated by updating one.” This probably doesn’t seem like much, but in theory the promise held by widespread OKI [...]
California State University Signs System Wide Deal with Blackboard Inc.
http://www.cpwire.com/archive/2003/9/24/1396.asp “The California State University system has adopted the Blackboard Learning System and the Blackboard Portal System to meet the e-Education needs of more than 414,000 students and 46,000 faculty and staff.” Wow. There have been quite a few large CMS RFPs and competitions over the last year (Wisconsin, Minnesota, MiCTA to name a few) [...]
Keynote Speech on Literacy and Learning Technologies from Eurocall03
http://iet.open.ac.uk/pp/r.goodfellow/Euroc03/talk.htm This is the text of the keynote speech at the recent European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning in Limerick, Ireland. The speech is by Dr. Robin Goodfellow (no, not that other guy) of the UK Open University. It’s longish but I found it worth the read, in part because there were lots of [...]
IADIS 2004 Conference – Web Based Communities
http://www.iadis.org/wbc2004/committees.asp I don’t normally blog conference announcements, but this one seemed pretty interesting. The International Association for Development of the Information Society has put out a call for papers for it’s upcoming conference, to be held March 25-26, 2004 in Lisbon, Portugal, on the theme of ‘web based communities.’ As they say on the conference [...]
The Best-Selling Dissertations of 2002
One likely can’t make too much out of this, but I thought it interesting that 3 of the top 10 ‘best selling’ dissertations (as reported by Proquest) related to knowledge management. If you set your filter a little broader, you might even say that about half of these related to learning within organizations. – SWL -via [...]
AAHE Portfolio Program Search
A searchable database of 51 institutions using electronic portfolios courtesy of the American Association of Higher Education (note this is the same resource that used to be hosted by Kalamazaoo College at http://www.kzoo.edu/pfolio/database.html). Found it via the Kalamazoo site, which also contains this useful biliography relating to e-portfolios, as well as their own portfolio site. – [...]
Jay Cross' Notes on LMS presentation by Bryan Chapman (from Brandon Hall group)
Jay Cross is blogging the VNU Supplier Summit. There are lots of nuggets in his notes, and of particular interest to me was the session by Bryan Chapman, an LMS analyst with Brandon Hall, who had some numbers associated with average LMS license prices.
Proceedings of the OLN Institute -
http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/weblogs/ michelle/archives/000194.html Via Michelle Lamberson comes mention of an important collection of papers on learning objects that came out of the recent OLN Institute at Ohio State called “Building and Assessing Shareable Content.” The proceedings for the conference, a book titled “Learning Objects: Contexts and Connections” (Catherine M. Gynn and Stephen R. Acker, Editors) are now [...]
Freeing computers in schools: Free software in education
http://www.opensector.org/1063723220 Another piece similar to the one I posted on yesterday concerning the relevance of Free and Open Source software to education. It focuses even more so on its relevance to developing nations, and points to an excellent report by Niranjan Rajani on behalf of the Finnish government that also has details of the progress [...]
http://www.icampus.ucl.ac.be/LINUX/ document/quatrequarts.html This paper by Thomas De Praetere of the Université cathlolique de Louvain in France, the original home of Claroline, puts forward some arguments on why open source is so successful, particularly in educational institutions. I know this might surprise some – I’ve had many educators complain to me about their inability to get open [...]
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