Posted on May 6, 2008 by Michael Korcuska
I have so much to say about what went on in St. Paul at the JA-Sig Spring Conference that I hardly know where to begin. I’ll start with a meeting that some Sakai folks had with the folks from Bedework. If you don’t know about Bedework, it’s a higher education-based community source calendar project. It’s [...]
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Posted on May 5, 2008 by Michael Korcuska
Well it seems like a long time ago now but the JA-Sig Spring Conference was a big success from my perspective. This was pitched as a “Community Source” event and included participants from a variety of higher education open source projects including:
uPortal
CAS
Sakai
Internet2
Fedora Commons
dSpace
Kuali
Fluid
Bedework
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Posted on April 24, 2008 by Michael Korcuska
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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Posted on April 17, 2008 by Michael Korcuska
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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Posted on April 17, 2008 by Michael Korcuska
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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Posted on April 10, 2008 by Michael Korcuska
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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Posted on April 9, 2008 by Michael Korcuska
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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Posted on April 5, 2008 by Michael Korcuska
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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Posted on April 3, 2008 by Michael Korcuska
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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Posted on April 3, 2008 by Michael Korcuska
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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