After a long but uneventful trip I’m in China with Melissa Zhuo from Clarement McKenna and Xingtang Wu from Indiana. More later on the content of our meetings but, as you’ll see, it’s a bit of a pain to blog from here.
I like to carry a magazine or two with me on an airplane. [...]
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As you probably have heard by now, Blackboard received a favorable verdict in its patent lawsuit against Desire2Learn. In addition to a financial judgment of approximately $3.1M, the verdict allows Blackboard to ask for an injunction preventing D2L from selling its product in the United Sates until D2L either negotiates a license from Blackboard [...]
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Harvard University faculty of Arts and Sciences voted last week to approve an open access policy for scholarly research. By default, research articles will be published on-line and available for free. The faculty member will retain copyright and can opt out of the system. A couple of good summaries can by found at the NY [...]
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I just returned from the eTech Ohio annual conference, where I was a featured (not keynote) speaker. My talk was fairly well attended given that it occurred during the lunch slot, although nothing compared to the overflow attendance of the morning’s keynote speaker, Ray Kurzweil, who I’ve admired since my days of studying artificial intelligence. [...]
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I’m extremely pleased to announce, after a extensive selection process, that Nathan Pearson has been selected as the lead for the Sakai UX improvement project. Nathan is an experienced UX designer with previous Course Management System and Sakai experience. Nathan is based in the Phoenix, Arizona region and has previously worked with both rSmart and [...]
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At the 2007 Educause Conference in Seattle, several Sakai community members were interviewed as part of the Educause Podcast Series. Educause recently released a few more of these and they are worth checking out. I was interviewed and was quite impressed with the questions they had prepared. They even pronounced my name correctly.
In any [...]
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With a little help from the excellent tutorial videos that Zach Thomas of Aeroplane Software has produced, I just completed my first successful build of Sakai (version 2-5-0_RC_01b).
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Sakai Courseware Management: The Official Guide is now available from Packt publishing. The publisher is paying a percentage of every book sold directly to the Sakai Foundation. And Alan and I are donating all royalties directly to the Sakai Foundation.
