I recent spoke with the online learning team at Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU). They let me know that in May of this year, Sakai will become the enterprise learning management system at SVSU, replacing Blackboard. It’s great to see another smaller school (<10,000 students) using Sakai as an enterprise course management system. They are [...]
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In case you don’t follow the Fluid lists/blogs, I want to draw your attention to an extremely high quality blog entry from Colin Clark, Technical Lead for the Fluid project. Colin’s post goes describes why you should use JavaScript toolkits rather than rolling your own and why, after considerable exploration, the Fluid Project chose jQuery [...]
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I’m extremely pleased to announce that Diana Laurillard, Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies at the London Knowledge Lab, will be the keynote speaker for the 9th Sakai Conference in Paris. Diane is a recognized authority in technology-based teaching and learning and author of the excellent book Rethinking University Teaching: A conversational framework for the [...]
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Sakai board member Josh Baron drew my attention to a recent controversy in the MySQL community. The article describes MySQL’s plans to withhold some key features and source code from the community, reserving them for paying customers. I won’t weigh in on the controversy since I don’t really know much about the MySQL community.
I’m not [...]
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I thought I was done blogging about the Rhode Island Sakai Conference, but just before I left I attended such a fantastic session that I can’t resist another entry. The session was led by a history teacher at Warwick West High School and three of her sophomore honors students. They are using the discussion [...]
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On Tuesday and Wednesday I participated in the Rhode Island Sakai Conference in Newport, RI. The conference has a K-12 focus and is, as far as I know, the first K-12 Sakai conference. The conference was organized by RINET, the Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology.
Rhode Island is doing incredibly important work with portfolios. The [...]
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So those of you from outside the United States probably don’t really understand the mania involved in major college athletics here. And I’m normally immune to most of it, but I have to admit a strong loyalty to my undergraduate institution, Stanford University, and especially the women’s basketball team. (Stanford is a founding member of [...]
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I was pleased to see an announcement from Brock University’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Educational Technologies (CTLET) that they will be moving from WebCT to Sakai between now and the 2009 academic term. Brock, located in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, has an enrollment of 17,000 students. Brock University was founded in 1964.
Brock conducted a [...]
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Today the Sakai Foundation released it’s formal statement commenting on the recent US Patent and Trademark Office action regarding the Blackboard Patent:
As you probably already know, we learned on Friday, March 28 that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a non-final action rejecting all 44 claims in Blackboard’s U.S. Patent 6,988,138 [...]
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I’m very pleased to announce that the University of Delaware has officially announced that they will be moving from WebCT to Sakai! The University of Delaware has been contributing to Sakai for a number of years. I’m personally thankful to Carl Jacobson for administrating the voting procedures for the Sakai Board of Directors. And Janet [...]
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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.
