Supporting Open Source Software for Education
June 3, 2010
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from external blog: http://xolotl.org/blog/xolotl/more-or-less-google-cloudcourse
After the announcement of Google's CloudCourse being open-sourced, I decided to give it a try and see exactly what's under the hood...at the very least, it would give me a chance to try out a Django app via Google App Engine, which alone is worth the time.
Long story short: I got CloudCourse up and running in a matter of minutes.
October 19, 2009
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from external blog: http://xolotl.org/blog/xolotl/sakai-3s-commonplace-destiny
I've recently been enjoying some (possibly) healthy, irreverent debate with colleagues at Blackboard and beyond about some of the differences between such proprietary regimes and the open-source community of Sakai. While the Twitter channel we've been using generates plenty of pithy ripostes, at times a tweet calls out for more sustained thought and response.
A recent tweet from @georgekroner—one of my favorite Blackboarders—set me thinking and led to some longer—if not deeper—reflections, likely to be far less entertaining than the short salvos in our ongoing snarkument on Twitter.
May 2, 2008
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from external blog: http://xolotl.org/blog/xolotl/where-sakai-headed-or-i-want-my-user-centered-mash-extra-gravy
Hearing Chuck Severance's presentation at JA-SIG St Paul 2008 about work on the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability 2.0 (LTI) standard restarted some thinking I'd already been doing about where online learning technology is (should be?) headed.