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.LRN announced as SCORM Adopter partner by ADL

By sleslie on April 29, 2005

http://dotlrn.org/news/one-entry?entry%5fid=90509 When people ask me for examples of open source CMS that really might be considered as alternatives to the current major commercial systems, I often cite .LRN as one potential example. It’s been built from the ground up on a portal framework and already contains a host of tools one would recognize from conventional [...]

Posted in Course Management Systems | Tagged CMS, open_source

i d e a n t: Tag Literacy

By sleslie on April 26, 2005

http://ideant.typepad.com/ideant/2005/04/tag_literacy.html I haven’t been doing a lot of ‘me too’ blogging of late (e.g. highlighting what other bloggers have written) but I thought this post deserved a mention, in part because I’m not sure if Ideant is as widely read as it should be. the piece is a worthwhile read for the folksonomies crowd. I [...]

Posted in The Rest | Tagged folksonomy, tags

WebCT Announces the Beta Release of WebCT Campus Edition 6

By sleslie on April 26, 2005

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/ index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view &newsId=20050425005245&newsLang=en The next twelve to 18 months should prove to be a very interesting time for folks dealing with CMS-related issues on campuses. As per this news release, WebCT is leapfrogging any sort of ’5.0′ release in favour of a new Campus Edition 6.0 – from what I understand, an effort to bring [...]

Posted in Course Management Systems | Tagged CMS, WebCT

Campus Technology Article on the benefits of an integrated CMS

By sleslie on April 25, 2005

http://www.campus-technology.com/ news_article.asp?id=10963&typeid=156 I’d like to believe that lots of what this article has to say is true; that, putting to the side for a moments complaints about the nature of CMS systems themselves, giving faculty an ‘integrated’ environment saves them (and the students) from the duplication of lots of dull, administrative tasks and frees up [...]

Posted in Course Management Systems | Tagged CMS, WebCT

Blackboard "Blogging" their Annual Conference

By sleslie on April 12, 2005

http://blackboardblog.blogspot.com/ So I open my emailbox this morning to find a message from one of our former edtech blogging brethren, Greg Ritter from Ten Reasons Why. As many of you will know, Greg works for Blackboard (yes that Blackboard) who are having their annual conference right now in Baltimore. Greg wrote to ask if I’d [...]

Posted in Course Management Systems | Tagged blackboard, CMS

ADL Plugfest 9 Proceedings Available, Some Notable Presentations

By sleslie on April 7, 2005

http://www.adlnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=PF9ProceedT The proceedings for the 9th ADL Plugfest are now available, including both online video, links to the powerpoints and to some demos. As if the point needed more illustration, nothing quite exemplifies the differences between the training/corporate elearning communities and the higher ed community, or between the state of the advanced research community and [...]

Posted in Learning Objects | Tagged interoperability, Learning Objects, social_learning

By sleslie on April 4, 2005

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