It’s been pointed out to me (and I should have remembered anyways) that Solo, the offline Sakai, is a collaboration between NWU and UNISA. I’d left UNISA out of the equation in my recent post on the subject. Sorry about that!
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This isn’t really an update on the overall progress of the D2L/Bb lawsuit or an update on the USPTO reexamination of the patent, but I was interested, technically, in what D2L would do to its latest version to render it non-infringing.
Basically, they’ve eliminated all roles from their system at the time of installation. The customer [...]
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There are two projects inside Sakai that have attracted my attention and I think should have yours as well. The first, which I’ve written about before, is OpenSyllabus from HEC Montréal. In Newport Beach this was really only at the conceptual stage but in Paris the team demonstrated a working version. For those who have [...]
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Well, I’m sure you’ve all seen the article about the Bb-Sakai connector in Inside Higher Education. Both Chuck and I were quoted and Chuck has since blogged about it. I have a bit of additional perspective of my own I thought was worth sharing.
One of the questions on the email lists was “Is this a [...]
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I’m sitting at the Cambridge Hackathon with an amazing group of Sakai contributors and I’m sure there will be a variety of good outcomes and stories from this week, but I’m remiss in providing a summary of last week’s 9th Sakai Conference in Paris.
Despite some logistical challenges (the hotel was too far away from the [...]
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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.
